Tamir Moustafa’s Constituting Religion incisively reveals both the enduring and disturbing impacts of constitutional law on the ways Malaysians imagine…
Why religion is different: Five contradictions of religion in law
religious freedom
Constituting religion, contesting constitutional identity
It is a truth universally acknowledged that religion, in the possession of man, causes division, conflict, and even war. Well,…
Judges, lawyers, politics: Religion still divides Malaysia
Constituting Religion is an immensely valuable work, as it shows the extent to which the Malaysian state apparatus has contributed…
Mansplaining religion
While the hot cases [in Malaysia] differ in their details from those in the United States, the structure of the…
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…
Is Masterpiece Cakeshop a church?
Where is the religion in this case and what kind of religion is it?
A crisis of political arrogance
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public…
The Idea of the Muslim World and the global politics of religion
The idea of the Muslim world enables narratives in which Islam “causes” people to do things.
On the evolution and impact of anti-Muslim polemics
Nadia Marzouki’s Islam: An American Religion is one of the most exciting books I have read on Islam in the…
On the recent past, fraught present, and tenuous future of Turkish Muslim civil society
To practice anthropology is to accept an implicit temporal double bind: We think we write ethnography, but frequently our expositions…