Who gets to say what about religion? When does free speech verge into something more insidious—insult, offense, even blasphemy? These…
The surprising history of global blasphemy law
colonialism
Colonial reverberations in contemporary religious freedom promotion
The cacophony of sounds at Easter in contemporary Cyprus is tremendous. From fieldwork on the island in 2015, I recall…
A Middle Eastern indigenous critique?
…I ask how Dawn might help us to think of the Americas and the Middle East together. What is to…
Ecologies of the dead and living: Mourning out of place
This forum initiates a conversation on the meaning and consequences of death across societies and time periods, drawing together scholars…
Racism and sectarianism
My use of Du Bois here is to think through fundamentally coeval, yet different, histories, vocabularies, and trajectories of discrimination…
The coloniality of apocalypse
In this piece, Catherine Keller and Mayra Rivera reflect on "the end of the world," "climate apocalypse," and the aftermath…
Is Europe (still) white?
But what does it mean to link Europe’s tarnished soul with an inquiry into the Christian nature of the continent,…
Constituting religion: From South Asia to Malaysia
At the start of his outstanding new book, Constituting Religion, Tamir Moustafa explains that initially his ambition extended beyond Malaysia…
Networks of reception, conditions of audibility: A reply to Johnson and Walker
The line between critique and credulity, or between cynicism and naiveté, is at the heart of all of the books…
In the spirit of reconciliation
Pamela Klassen offers her subtle and judicious book to us “in the spirit” of the call issued in the 2015…