Winnifred Fallers Sullivan writes the initial response to Nadia Marzouki's Islam: An American Religion in this summer book forum.
“Only a human encounter . . .”
Europe
The Myth of Disenchantment: An Introduction
A great many theorists have argued that precisely what makes the modern world “modern” is that people no longer believe…
“I am not a racist, but . . .”: The perversity of the recent ECJ ruling on the “headscarf issue”
It is by now commonplace that ostensibly “neutral” language—such as the notorious preamble “I am not a racist, but .…
CFP | Jews and Quakers (NEW DATE!)
The Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex and Woodbrooke Centre for Postgraduate Quaker Studies, Birmingham, invite submissions…
The refugee crisis and religion: Beyond physical and conceptual boundaries
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), as of the end of 2015, 65.3 million people were displaced globally…
A new “Christianist” secularism in Europe
Throughout much of the world, religion manifestly—and sometimes markedly—informs everyday understandings, cultural representations, and political and legal definitions of nationhood.…
Religion in European migration studies
In recent years, religion has come back to the research agenda of the European social sciences with full strength. Important…
Islamophobia and antisemitism in Europe
The latest issue of the journal of the Jewish Museum Berlin features an article by Yasemin Shooman, a German historian, comparing anti-Muslim…
Bible, flowers, and relevance
John Boy, contributing editor to The Immanent Frame and an associate editor of Frequencies, reflects on his recent visit to…
Multiculturalism in Europe
After the rise of multicultural policies in the 1980s and 1990s, the winds have shifted in Europe. Terrorist attacks in…