In the past fifty years, the study of religion and violence has grown exponentially. One reason for this is obvious:…
Thinking about religion and violence
religion
The future of us
Audio from the last in-person meeting of A Knausgaard Reading and Writing Collective
Refusing the choice: Neither academic nor novelist, an experiment in writing
More than anything, the young Karl Ove Knausgaard wanted to write novels. But he couldn’t. “I couldn’t write, so I…
Earth
American Afterlives concludes with the ritualized disinterment of the author’s decomposed corpse. An archaeologist is excavating a twenty-first century cemetery,…
American evangelicals, Islam, and defining the “other”
How should we understand conflicts over identity, theological boundaries, and orthodoxy within religious communities and across religious, national, and racial…
Bridging normative worlds: Religion, politics, and the rule of law
Around the world today, and especially in Euro-Atlantic contexts, we often hear the thesis that a resurgence of religion as…
Religion(s) and the rule of law: Let us compare mythologies
The glittering and hurting days are almost done Then let us compare mythologies I have learned my elaborate lie of…
Freedom struggles of China’s Christian rights lawyers
In 2008 or 2009, at an early stage of an extensive research program on criminal defense lawyers in China, I…
Competing narratives of the “us” in “our culture and heritage”
Although 19.3 million people reported a Christian affiliation in the 2021 Canadian census (representing just over half of the Canadian…
National identity, nationalism, and the politics of religion
This forum draws together scholars of religion, nationalism, and secularism with research expertise in North America, the Middle East, Europe,…