The Immanent Frame – Page 84 – Secularism, religion, and the public sphere

Conversion to Islam as religious and racial crossing

June 5, 2018

Due to the specific history of Islam in Western societies, the border that converts go over by becoming Muslim is not simply religious, but also cultural, ethnic, and even racial.

June 5, 2018

Sex, secularism, and “femonationalism”

The “woman question” as symptomatic of imperialism

Lucinda Ramberg·

May 31, 2018

I want to bring the arguments of Farris and Scott into conversation with two other recent publications in order to highlight another set of points about geopolitics in relation to political and…

May 31, 2018

Essays

Solitary confinement and the Nation of Islam

Brittany Friedman·

Zachary Sommers·

May 30, 2018

Prevailing understandings about race in prison often group black prisoners together, only separating them by gang affiliation. Yet, our essay suggests that religion has long been an important identifier for the prison…

May 30, 2018

Crossing and conversion

Who needs conversion? Jewish conversion in a time of shattered boundaries

Michal Kravel-Tovi·

May 29, 2018

The idea that Jewish conversion might be unessential seems both provocative and counterintuitive. . . . Yet, in this short essay I suggest that in contemporary Jewish life, formal conversion is in…

May 29, 2018

Sex, secularism, and “femonationalism”

Taming the Muslim woman

Nadia Fadil·

May 24, 2018

The Muslim woman figures as one of the central anchor points of the “Muslim question.” Integrated into a discourse of emancipation, her body has become the battleground for a new discourse of…

May 24, 2018

Crossing and conversion

Conversion marriages: Rethinking categories of religion in colonial India’s courtrooms

Justin Jones·

May 22, 2018

Conversion marriages, which always involved litigants who had exchanged their religious self-designations, perpetually mixed up personal law codes and created spaces of legal inclarity. This is why the courts struggled (and continue…

May 22, 2018

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Conversion to Islam as religious and racial crossing

The “woman question” as symptomatic of imperialism

Solitary confinement and the Nation of Islam

Who needs conversion? Jewish conversion in a time of shattered boundaries

Taming the Muslim woman

Conversion marriages: Rethinking categories of religion in colonial India’s courtrooms