To be an Asian American evangelical or to write about them as a scholar means to battle for legibility. Similar…
Who (or what) is an Asian American evangelical?
justice
Ethical response and the environmental humanities
Gade approaches the question of justice as a scholar of the history of religions and environmental studies. A study of…
Religious naturalism, myriad nature, and justice: A reply to Kahn and Keller
I very much appreciate the scholarship of Jonathon Kahn and Mary Keller, so am particularly grateful for this opportunity to…
Social drama, universalisms’ political violence, and transnational law
In a perhaps somewhat contrapuntal response to the provocation to see the broader world differently than we may otherwise, as…
What dolphins teach us about philanthropy
To explore what a justice-oriented philanthropy might look like, I will first grapple with the original usage of the term…
Against relevance
The oath used to mean something. It used to ensure the rectitude of our politics and the integrity of our…
Preposterous practices
In the broader culture and in the academy, we have moved from naming bad people to also naming privilege as…
Smuggling scholarship—In re The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law
The disciplines of knowledge production—through which we instill in our students the practices of objectivity, generalizability, and professionalism—are no less…
Revisited: Sex abuse and the study of religion
In summer 2010, Robert Orsi, Terence McKiernan, and I began a conversation about the sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church.…
“Only a human encounter . . .”
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan writes the initial response to Nadia Marzouki's Islam: An American Religion in this summer book forum.