A survey of leading contemporary international relations (IR) journals published between 1980 and 1996 revealed that 6 out of 1,600…
The politics of secularism in international relations
Book introductions
In short essays, authors introduce their new or upcoming books to readers of The Immanent Frame. These often provide additional commentary in an original essay or are short excerpts from the publication.
Cheerleading for war?
One of the questions that plagues my study of American religion is why there is such a frequent close correspondence…
Blurring the boundaries
Four guided missiles packed with explosive material hurtled into the morning sky. Though the day was brilliant blue and cloudless,…
Black Natural Law: An introduction
We are accustomed to hearing stories and seeing images of racial injustice: the white police officer assaulting the black schoolgirl,…
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault: An introduction
Traditionally, Western thought framed human life as evolving in a three-dimensional space: the economic, the political, and the philosophical. Nowadays,…
On inclusion
In a recent piece in The New York Times’ column The Stone, philosophers Jay L. Garfield and Bryan W. Van…
The breaking-in of the gods
In the early pages of my recently published book, History and Presence (Belknap Harvard 2016), I describe something that happened…
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
My new book, The Politics of Islamic Law, presents an approach to the study of religion, comparative politics and law…
Relativism and Religion: An introduction
Politicized religion seems to have a new enemy: Moral relativism is denounced by believers of all stripes as a threat…
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…