On January 17, 2023, BBC World aired the first episode of its controversial two-part miniseries titled India: The Modi Question.…
Monotheistic religious nationalisms in India and Pakistan
South Asia
The failures and successes of translation
I will frame my response to the wonderfully diverse essays in this collection from within this framework of the failure…
Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
This forum explores a set of interlocking questions concerning how we approach the study of public religion. How and when,…
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship opening at Williams College
Williams College has posted an opportunity in the Department of Religion. The college seeks a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Islam…
A postcolonial genealogy of secularism and sexuality
A public lecture recently delivered by Saba Mahmood at the London School of Economics entitled "Secularism, Religion and Sexuality: A Postcolonial Genealogy"…
Ethno-religious clashes in Myanmar
Last week in Myanmar, ethnic and religious clashes between majority-group Rakhine Buddhists and minority-group Rohingya Muslims left at least a…
Translating Islam in South Asia
At SSRC.org, three former International Dissertation Research Fellows (IDRF) reflect on Ronit Ricci's Islam Translated.
“Traditionalist” Islamic activism
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, commentators trying to analyze Afghan support for Al-Qaeda put a great deal of…
Comparative Studies in Society and History takes on the secular
The most recent edition of Comparative Studies in Society and History (CSSH) focuses on questions of secularity and secularism in…