The Unintended Reformation is an unusual work of history in deliberately focusing as much on the present as on the…
Contents and discontents of (post)modernity
democracy
CFP: Rethinking Political Catholicism
On May 22-23, 2014, John Cabot University, as part of its Summer Institute for Religion and Global Politics will host…
A Kingdom that no longer says Whatever
As a scholar working and living in the Netherlands, I apparently live in a state of affairs in which disinterested…
Secular supercessionism and alternative modernity
Recent years have seen the resurgence of “metahistories” that seek to provide a single complex narrative of seemingly disparate events…
Has modernity failed?
Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is noteworthy for its readiness to tread upon questions of morality and metaphysics that most historians…
The return of sacred history
Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation is an expansively ambitious work. Indeed, its aim is to provide nothing less than an “explanation…
An intended absence? Democracy and The Unintended Reformation
The long-term consequences of the Reformation have been a subject of heated debate for many decades. Most accounts have taken…
The religious dimension of Morsi’s mandate
The Immanent Frame contributor Mbaye Lo writes at Mondoweiss on ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's claim of legitimacy and its…
Crisis in Egypt roundup
The public protests and ouster of elected Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian military followed by the appointment of…
Religious freedom and the Constitution
Dennis J. Goldford was recently interviewed by Religion Dispatches Magazine about his new book The Constitution of Religious Freedom: God, Politics,…