Gade approaches the question of justice as a scholar of the history of religions and environmental studies. A study of…
Islam
The pandemic and new Muslim publics
Where Singapore’s Malay-Muslim community has traditionally conceptualized notions of togetherness through the public commemoration of personal events, the hasty digitalization…
Sonic controversy: “Hinduistic music” in Pakistan
I argue that shifting assumptions about “authentic Islam” have catalyzed the scandalization of mystical music in Pakistan. The emergence of…
Practices of relation: Baer and Imhoff
Marc David Baer and Sarah Imhoff discuss each other’s works and the ways they intersect.
Questions of power and privilege in Europe’s relationship with Christianity
It is not whether Europe is Christian or not that matters. What matters is who is asking the question and…
Is Europe Christian?—An introduction
Olivier Roy introduces his argument in Is Europe Christian?, that the real break between contemporary European culture and Christianity is…
Translating Muslim giving into social entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship in this case is a means to perform Islam, and the crowdfunding platform is an arena to organize…
Constituting Religion—A reply
From the start, this project was both exhilarating and humbling because the co-constitutive dynamics of law, religion, politics, and society…
The religion trap
There is a trap in the study of religion and politics. All traditions are equally susceptible to it, but as…
Why religion is different: Five contradictions of religion in law
Tamir Moustafa’s Constituting Religion incisively reveals both the enduring and disturbing impacts of constitutional law on the ways Malaysians imagine…