Such sudden injunctions to mobilize religion for political gains ignore the fact that progressive and radical religious movements have been…
Nadia Marzouki
Nadia Marzouki is a tenured research fellow (Chargée de Recherche) at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) and member of CERI at Sciences-Po in Paris. She wrote on public controversies about Islam in Europe and the United States. Her current work examines how some progressive religious movements in Europe and the United States promote civic ecumenism as an alternative to religious nationalism and populism. She is the author of Islam: An American Religion (Columbia University Press, 2017). She coedited, with Olivier Roy and Duncan McDonnell, Saving the People, How Populists Hijack Religion (Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2017).
Promise and consolation
How does one take loss seriously and figure out how to transform it into action rather than identity?
From Jefferson to Jeffersonian battles
Among the scholars who have most inspired my work as a political scientist are multiple historians—whether intellectual, legal, or religious.…
Religion and populism
This adapted excerpt is republished with permission of the publishers—Hurst in Europe; OUP in North America—from Saving the People: How Populists…
Engaging religion at the Department of State
This past week, the US Department of State announced the creation of a new office that “will focus on engagement with…
Nahda’s return to history
The Tunisian uprisings of December 2010 are often depicted in negative terms, as lacking leadership, ideology, and political organization. Nahda…
The naked public sphere?
In light of Rick Santorum's recent comments on religion and the public sphere, we asked a small handful of scholars…