Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State takes the tenacious rubric of “church and state” and examines it through a…
Ekklesia: An introduction
sovereignty
Sovereign Jews: An introduction
My recent book, Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism, harnesses the powerful critique of the dominant secular(ist) epistemology, which is…
Questioning territory: A Jewish reflection on holy land*
Thinking of territory as a patrie, a motherland or homeland, makes use of metaphors that hope to capture a primal…
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Cohen and Kahn
This is the fifth and final installment in the "Theologies of American exceptionalism" series. In this final post, Shaul Magid…
Civility, identity, and agency
As an American teaching university in Canada, where the illiberal regulation of disfavored speech is increasingly common, I am tempted…
Muhammad Asad and the concept of an Islamic politics
In a talk prepared last year for a symposium on the life and work of his father, the anthropologist Talal Asad lays…
Hosanna-Tabor in the religious freedom Panopticon
Michel Foucault famously describes Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon as a “cruel, ingenious cage” to be understood not as a “dream building…
Religion and state secularization
In discussing secularization, it has become conventional to note that the concept refers to various processes, of which three are…
There is Power in the Blog: Paul W. Kahn
There is Power in the Blog is hosting an eight-part discussion on Paul W. Kahn’s recent book Political Theology: Four…
A response to critics
I knew that my new book, Political Theology, would be controversial. It covers a lot of ground; it produces odd…