The queerness of lost boys in butt huts struck me in the journalistic accounts I had read, and I took…
Exchanges
Scholars are invited into conversation around a common theme or a recently published book. These are ongoing exchanges among leading thinkers across the social sciences and humanities.
Revisited: The “good” and the “bad” Muslims of China
The slim crescent that rose above the skyline on July 9th signifies the beginning of this year’s holy month of…
Polarization and world-building
Each of the essays in this forum offers a different theoretical, disciplinary, and intellectual approach to the intersection of anti-Muslim…
Spatial Islamophobia, conflict democracy, and Muslim cemeteries as place-making for the future
I see several old Southern Baptist and Methodist churches, some with graveyards, as I drive along in a small Southern…
Keeping the faith: Queer religion as a template for political resistance to white Christian nationalism
“Dear Friend, Militant homosexuals are plotting a dangerously different future for America!” began a 1984 letter from Jerry Falwell, cofounder…
White Christian nationalism and the racial politics of analogy
What if the crowds who attacked the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021, were not dominantly white and…
When does Christian nationalism promote anti-democratic attitudes?
The insurrection on January 6, 2021, ignited widespread concern about the health of democracy in the United States. Alongside this…
Welcoming the stranger at home
The headlines told the story. Following the inauguration of former president Donald Trump, articles with titles such as “White Evangelicals…
American evangelicals, Islam, and defining the “other”
How should we understand conflicts over identity, theological boundaries, and orthodoxy within religious communities and across religious, national, and racial…
Before Christian nationalism: Syncretic civic moralism, the Supreme Court, and the formation of young Americans
Over the last few years, we have seen what Candace Lukasik has aptly termed “anxious scholarly debate” regarding the rise…