Politicizing Islam is a comparative ethnography that analyzes the religious and political dynamics of the Islamic revival in France and…
Politicizing Islam: An introduction
France
Regulating symbols: The burkini and niqab bans in France
Last month, the image of three police officers standing over a woman on the beach in Nice, supervising the removal…
On France’s theologico-political crisis
Nations have different ways of talking about themselves. Americans tend to discuss their country in an idiom of national greatness,…
Why citizenship (still) matters in France
In the wake of the November 13 terrorist attack, French president François Hollande decided to reinforce France’s security legislation. In…
Thinking with Saba Mahmood
Mahmood outlines a set of concepts that are historically central to the workings of secularism and elucidates how they facilitate…
Values and violence: Thoughts on Charlie Hebdo
The week after the massacre, Charlie Hebdo’s “All is forgiven" issue featured a cover depicting the prophet Muhammad in tears, holding a…
The Charlie Hebdo shootings
On Wednesday, January 7th, two masked assailants stormed the Paris headquarters of the French satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, killed 12 people, and wounded…
Short skirts and niqab bans: On sexuality and the secular body
Introduced in Québec in March 2010, Bill 94 proposed requiring women to unveil their faces if they wanted to work…
Tony Judt on Religion in America
In addition to an excerpt from the introduction to Denis Lacorne's Religion in America, as well as Joseph Blankholm's response…
American exceptionalism redux
I find Kahn's book as a whole less coherent than some others have. One issue I want to raise is…