The politics of Turkish secularism does not only impose a radical break with the multi-religious Ottoman past, but simultaneously aims…
Armenian return conversions in Turkey
religious minorities
Democracy and the secular predicament
In the United States, the Middle East is almost always presented as a problem to be solved—most significantly, the problem…
Equality time
Most of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is an original and thorough exploration of the historical…
Minority matters
Trenchantly framed as “a minority report,” Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report offers more than just…
Legal age
“Now let us see how Bauer formulates the role of the state,” writes Karl Marx in his famous take on…
A thought-provoking study
In Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, Saba Mahmood has produced a valuable account both of how the…
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report—An introduction
It is no exaggeration to say that the religious diversity that characterized the Middle East for centuries is in precipitous…
Religion in Britain: Demography, identity, and the public sphere
Over at Public Spirit, to coincide with the publication of the second edition of Grace Davie's Religion in Britain, Tariq Modood…
The Charter of Quebec Values
On November 7th, 2013, on the heels of a heated public debate about the role of religion in public life,…
The forgotten story of the Flushing Remonstrance
Walking down Bowne Street in Flushing, Queens, you may see a most interesting sign. “Bowne House; Built in 1661," it…