Centering the study of American religion with a focus on Asian Americans would complicate a number of well-worn framings with…
Refashioning the frames of American religion research
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“Sing Hallelujah to the Lord”: Secular Christianities on Hong Kong’s Civic Square
Situated at what is arguably the founding moment of these 2019 protests, the popularity of “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord”…
Networks of reception, conditions of audibility: A reply to Johnson and Walker
The line between critique and credulity, or between cynicism and naiveté, is at the heart of all of the books…
Openings and flashes: A reply to Shelton and Sornito
Here are two intensely original essays in distinct voices and registers that also repeatedly intersect. Reading Christina Sornito and Allen…
Crossing and conversion: Conclusion
Religious identity is a deeply political fact that takes different shapes in different political configurations. Conversions are therefore suspect and…
The geopolitics of the “shithole”
Secular modernity is marked by a persistent project of separating the modern body from its waste, masking excremental operations, and…
The ghost of immanentism
If we should think past the division between secular and religious, and if secularism is merely the name for their…
Secular, sacred, Yiddish, Jewish
In considering immanentism, it is difficult not to imagine it in religious terms. This is all the more so when…
More immanence, more Gods
The apparent battlefield is an old one, and the separation of philosophy from theology has a long history. Philosophy, in…
Religion, secularism, and Black Lives Matter
In February 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida. Zimmerman was initially released on…