Bouteldja’s “we” is resolutely impure, as is the “you” she addresses. And because it is impure, it is political. It…
Love in dark times
history
Conversion to Islam as religious and racial crossing
Due to the specific history of Islam in Western societies, the border that converts go over by becoming Muslim is…
Catholic Modern: An introduction
The Church, like no other institution of its size, is beholden to its past. That past is, however, often misunderstood.…
“It was no way to die”
What will we make in future years of our decision to spend the last decade preoccupied with question about religion…
The shapeless things to come
Can fiction offer a viable, even preferable alternative to history? Good novelists and historians both recognize the objective limits of…
Constructing Indian religion in Heathen, Hindoo, Hindu
Michael Altman’s contribution to our historical understandings of American ideas about foreign religions is to note the ways in which…
The Protestant Reformation and human rights
When we think of the Christian origins of human rights, we might keep this in mind: What we regard as…
When was the monist century?
Why study the immanentist tradition?
The Muslim world: Political fiction and sociological fact?
Big history must reckon with the specificity of human experience, even if such an orientation yields more modest conclusions. The…
Strategic Muslim worlds? Race, reform, and the dialectics of essentialism
The Idea of the Muslim World demonstrates that the "Muslim world" is a modern colonial invention, a racially imagined entity…