I started to reflect on why it should be that such an extremely limited range of Arabic-language terms appear to…
Is Baathism an Arabic word?
history
The longue durée of apocalypse
Charisse Burden-Stelly and Gerald Horne discuss apocalypse as both beginning and ending in the context of the rise of settler…
Experience between the secular and the divine
The strange and often contradictory ways that phenomenology has been woven into and through diverse religious traditions are the subject…
Carrying risk in antiquity and the present
I have been struck by similarities with how Romans managed uncertainty. Using some material from my current project, this essay…
Is Europe Christian?—A reply
I thank the contributors for expanding the conversation with enriching perspectives. Of course, my book has its own limitations in…
Placing the pandemic in time: Astrology and Covid-19
Many Americans have turned to astrology, the study of correlations between celestial patterns and temporal events, to make sense of…
Questions of power and privilege in Europe’s relationship with Christianity
It is not whether Europe is Christian or not that matters. What matters is who is asking the question and…
Protection without punishment: Turning to Buddhist gods during Covid-19
I am curious about how people turned to the gods historically, the discursive modes permissible for doing so in 2020,…
Irredeemable enemies
Representation of the non-Western Islamist fighter has long had to deal with the Eurocentric and asymmetrical nature of international relations.…
Motherhood on the hinge
By the time I encountered Marie de l’Incarnation and the gripping story of her decision to abandon her eleven-year-old son…