My claim in this essay is that William Shakespeare’s theatre grew out of the early modern crisis of conversion—the period…
Shakespeare’s theatre of conversion
conversion
Not in the body
Does circumcision mark religious belonging onto a male body? And if so, is this marking legitimate, especially in the case…
Crossing and conversion: Introduction
This forum draws on a range of historical and contemporary case studies to show that conversions rarely converge on the…
Conversion diptych
I. Showing the Extraordinary Work Which Has of Late Been Going On in This Land The work of conversion is…
A more anxious freedom
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd's Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion is notable for its subtlety and intellectual generosity, as…
Competing inequalities
Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is a luminous, fiercely argued book. It requires deep and…
Queer faiths: Can conversions uncover and unsettle racialized religion?
Journalists, politicians and even scholars in Europe commonly use the word “Muslim” to refer not to religion, but to a…
Border-crossers, the human person, and Catholic communitarianism
It is a delight to be asked to contribute to this forum on Samuel Moyn’s work on Christianity and human…
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…
Questions of Zionism, conversion, and the diaspora
Natan Sharansky, head of the Jewish Agency for Israel and now, as The New York Times reports, leader of "a…