I was so glad for a book that systematically discarded the American “separation of church and state” paradigm, which despite…
Imagining community
India
Practices of relation: Goh and Kaell
This dialogue between scholars Robbie Goh and Hillary Kaell covers the lure of the international, “agglomerative impulses,” and attachments to…
Virtual populist regimes
In this contribution I will focus mainly on the cine-populism of south India and the Indian national populisms, which share…
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
In this forum of The Immanent Frame, the contributors tackle the dual questions of the political and the popular.
Gandhi’s birthday and the American religious left
For those of us in the United States, Gandhi’s birthday is also an opportunity to reflect on how lessons from…
Giving, time, and a wish
One of my central research questions concerns how wealth is given. What tools or techniques do the wealthy use to…
Constituting religion: From South Asia to Malaysia
At the start of his outstanding new book, Constituting Religion, Tamir Moustafa explains that initially his ambition extended beyond Malaysia…
Creating new Sufi publics at an old Sufi shrine
[M]odern Sufis have recognized the importance of music and the arts as a recruitment tool for forming a new Sufi…
Divine!
I am interested in mothers that are fathers, fathers that are mothers, and other forms of queer gestation and parenting.
The elegy for good days: Encounters with Urdu poetry in Delhi
How do we understand the Islamicness of Urdu poetry and also the spread of Urdu poetry far beyond the bounds…