On October 4, Saba Mahmood spoke at Georgetown's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs on "Politics of Religious…
Saba Mahmood on religious freedom and the Middle East
Saba Mahmood
Good Muslim, bad Muslim
In my opening post, I suggested that a second assumption underpinning the Chicago Report is that American foreign policy should…
The global securitization of religion
My first thought upon reading the Chicago Council’s report “Engaging Religious Communities Abroad: A New Imperative for U.S. Foreign Policy”…
Anti-secularist failures
I guess it's to be expected that in today's fashionable anti-secularist perspective an act of secular criticism that calls for…
Secularism, hegemony, and fullness
What are the stakes in wanting a fixed definition of religion, whether in terms of “a sense of fullness,” as…