As I argued in my previous post, there are indications that Paul Kahn subscribes to Carl Schmitt’s belief in the…
Paul Kahn’s mis-prognosis of America’s social imaginary
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Normative demands of Islamic studies scholarship
As a lawyer, I appreciate the critical importance of historical inquiry to contemporary legal challenges; as a historian, I resist…
Slavoj Žižek on radical politics and Christianity
Over at the Religion and Ethics blog of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Slavoj Zizek has written an opinion piece on…
The suspicious revolution: An interview with Talal Asad
Not long after his return from Cairo, where he was doing fieldwork, I spoke with Talal Asad at the City…
The political theology of freedom and unfreedom
Kahn has identified an ideal---the sacrificial ideal of freedom---that exists both as an ideal and at times in practice. And…
The politics of the atonement
To grasp the deep architecture of the political today, therefore, is to venture into the theological domains of Christology and…
Critiquing reductionism
There are reductive categories . . . that have been and should be abandoned in scholarly discourse because the terms…
The politics of inaccuracy and a case for “Islamic law”
Since the process of understanding divine law is not a uniform or singular one, there are multiple interpretations of what…
The Theological and the Political
From Fortress Press, an interview with Mark Lewis Taylor, author of The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of…
Religion and marriage debate
Should the state be in the business of marriage, or is it inherently a religious union that should be performed…