Noah Salomon’s ethnography of politics provides a penetrating insight on the far-reaching effects of the Islamic state project in the…
The rhetoric of Islamic politics in local and global dimensions
discourse
Confused parchments, infinite socialities
Ambivalence, avoidance, hedging, delay—these are but some of my responses to Michael Warner’s richly rendered provocation and response to my…
Three dots and a dash
“It resists classification…” Language is a funny thing. Take my epigraph, for example: three words from the fourth paragraph of…
No view from nowhere
I’ll start with a comment about my own angle of approach. There is of course no view from nowhere, and…
Speech and space
Like Webb Keane, I have come to see some metapragmatic elements in evangelical culture as bringing about some important and…
A Christian rehabilitation of rights discourse
Nicholas Wolterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a unique---and uniquely readable---book. It skillfully constructs a case for the continuing force…
Translation and transformation
In my last post, I closed with two questions relating to Jurgen Habermas's recent work on religion and the public sphere:…
Nothing special about religion
It is clear from the ongoing discussion about "Religion in the public sphere" that we live in an age when…
Secularism and critique
What are we to think of the idea, entertained by Rawls for a time, that one can legitimately ask of…
“Recognizing” religion
Religion appears in liberal theory first and foremost as an occasion for tolerance and neutrality. This orientation is reinforced by…