In this brief essay I connect Gates’s philosophy of giving—along with many other contemporary neoliberal philanthropists—to Protestant traditions and the…
Religious charity and the spirit of homo economicus
liberalism
Liberal rights and religious rites
While Constituting Religion provides a detailed case study of Malaysia, the argument Moustafa develops has important implications for much of…
Constituting Religion—An introduction
Most Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that are meant to embed religion in state law. In many cases, the broad…
The Age of Cat
Cat videos offer a pleasurable diversion. The cat video answers the question “Is this all there is?” by saying, “This…
Comparison and classification in American religious history
The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and, even more spectacularly, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 reveal the power of the…
Graceless
How many hours can you spend disappearing yourself into the textures and surfaces, the hidden corners and sonic cul-de-sacs, of…
Secular, sacred, Yiddish, Jewish
In considering immanentism, it is difficult not to imagine it in religious terms. This is all the more so when…
Rethinking religion in a political scientific wilderness
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion makes an extremely important and timely contribution to a conversation that…
Law’s Religion—An introduction
In Theory From the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa, Jean and John Comaroff consider the juridification of…
Where is America in human rights history?
What is the place of the United States in the history of Christian human rights? This question is worth entertaining…