Throughout my research, I encountered many stories like Cûifā́gàui’s, in which Native people struggled as traditional formats for accessing sacred…
The Gods of Indian Country: An introduction
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.
The Cow in the Elevator: An introduction
In January 2009 I found myself helping three priests lure a reluctant cow into an elevator in the city of…
Ekklesia: An introduction
Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State takes the tenacious rubric of “church and state” and examines it through a…
Catholic Modern: An introduction
The Church, like no other institution of its size, is beholden to its past. That past is, however, often misunderstood.…
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…
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution: An introduction
The Conservative Human Rights Revolution traces the origins of the European human rights system from the Hague peace conferences before…
The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany: An introduction
Why has public criticism of the German churches for their conduct during the Nazi era been disproportionately directed at the…
On the recent past, fraught present, and tenuous future of Turkish Muslim civil society
To practice anthropology is to accept an implicit temporal double bind: We think we write ethnography, but frequently our expositions…
The Myth of Disenchantment: An Introduction
A great many theorists have argued that precisely what makes the modern world “modern” is that people no longer believe…
Salafism in Nigeria: An introduction
Studying Salafism is important not just for analyzing jihadist movements or clarifying twentieth-century Muslim history, but also for better understanding…