While most scholars, pollsters, and even the general public continue to envision American evangelicalism through its features permeating American politics…
The world through American evangelical lenses
NGOs
Imperialists in cassock?
It is one thing to write a good book. It is another thing entirely to write a timely book, and…
Governing religion with one eye closed
Everyone in China knows that official religious policy has only a nominal relationship to religious practice. The complaint comes from…
A struggle between faith and human action? Or, a question of apples and oranges
But then here, on another level, a question similar to that of the Christians above arises: when is human action…
A tale of two flotillas
Given the close relationship, globally, between religious political action and religious charities, it should come as no surprise that there…
Elsewhere, in the saturation of the body
About eight months into my fieldwork, I began to have dreams about the morning disciplinary routines at OISCA’s training centers.…
Engagement for whose good?
It is coincidental but telling that Emile Nakhleh’s post supporting U.S. “engagement” with Muslim communities appeared the same week as…
Engagement for the common good
I have been following the contributions and "debates" on The Immanent Frame in response to the Chicago Council report. My…
So close and yet so far
“The sound rose up and spread across the rooftops of the old city, a deep, guttural, Biblical sound---the sound of…