As the final installment of the series “Sex, secularism, and ‘femonationalism,’” Sara Farris, author of In the Name of Women’s Rights,…
A conversation between Sara Farris and Joan Wallach Scott
critique
Wording and worlding: On the form of Bouteldja’s writing
Reading Whites, Jews, and Us may tell me plenty about racism and sexism, but mostly, firstly, not exclusively, it shows…
Graceless
How many hours can you spend disappearing yourself into the textures and surfaces, the hidden corners and sonic cul-de-sacs, of…
For the love of literature—A critique
No intervention in literature studies could be more urgent than the one offered in Michael Allan’s In the Shadow of…
Criticism and catastrophe
Rather than a cosmopolitan space where all national literary traditions can finally cohabitate on an equal footing, world literature is…
Equality time
Most of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is an original and thorough exploration of the historical…
Christianity, contemporary legacies, and the critique of secularism
My last post took my response up to the twentieth century invention of “Christian human rights.” This one engages with crucial…
Blasphemous cartoons: The old threat of secularism and the new threat of Islam
Around Christmas time, in the heart of Europe, furor broke out over blasphemous cartoons. The newspapers and public opinion were…
Is ISIS Islamic? Why it matters for the study of Islam
Recent months have witnessed considerable angst in the academy over what is and isn’t Islam(ic). Spurred by events from the…
Three approaches to the study of religion
Is religion a valid category of scholarly inquiry? In this post, I briefly set out three distinct approaches to the…