Though the very term Islamophobia remains highly contested in Norway, the reluctance to define anti-Muslim speech as a form of…
Complicating hate speech matters
Islamophobia
Religion and hate speech
Many recent hate speech cases involve religion either as the source of views that are alleged to be hateful or…
Freedom’s fascists: Hate speech and the new European far right
Far right parties have metamorphisized: they are now anti-Islamic rather than anti-Semitic; as populist parties they rely on mass mobilization…
Hate speech, religious insult, critique: Introduction
Scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds were invited to consider the ways in which the legal distinction between belief…
Niqab, sunglasses, and the sincerity of belief
Haunted by its Roman Catholic background and still horrorstruck by last year’s mosque shooting, Québec, the French-speaking province of Canada,…
Making a scene
Bouteldja speaks to us like one of those books we need, one of these books that wake us up with…
Controversy over French proposal to edit the Quran: A transatlantic perspective
In the interest of informing our English-speaking readers about recent public debates involving questions of religious difference and public life…
On Sex and Secularism
Overall, the book aims to do two things: First, to offer a history that documents the ways in which gender…
What is scholarship good for?
Beyond calls for more of us to become public intellectuals, what can we do to shift public opinion on issues…
Releasing the umma from geopolitics
Read as a work of care, Cemil Aydın’s book releases the umma-concept from its geopolitical formation. This leaves the umma…