Monday, November 14, 6:15 to 8:00 p.m. 403 Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia University Three orders of questions regarding secularism—genealogical, philosophical,…
Beyond the Secular State? Secularism, Empire, and Hegemony
colonialism
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…
Beyond the Catholic-Protestant divide
The epigraph of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation comes from an essay that Jacques Maritain wrote for the Review of…
Colonialism’s religious domain
Recently I am struck by the ambiguity of the concept of the religious. Reading Linda Heuman’s review of Robert Bellah’s…
Reading religious freedom in Sri Lanka
As several contributors to this forum have pointed out, legal provisions regarding religious freedom do not emerge from history fully…
The problem of translation: A view from India
What is the politics of religious freedom? For the past decade and more, those who would like to see the…
Religious freedom, minority rights, and geopolitics
Conventional wisdom has it that religious liberty is a universally valid principle, enshrined in national constitutions and international charters and…
The suspicious revolution: An interview with Talal Asad
Not long after his return from Cairo, where he was doing fieldwork, I spoke with Talal Asad at the City…
The many globalizations of Christianity
Globalization, Chalmers Johnson says, is just a new word for what used to be called imperialism. He is partly correct,…
Christianity and its others
In the nineteenth century the new disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities were ‘emancipated’ from Christian theology. To…