I see several old Southern Baptist and Methodist churches, some with graveyards, as I drive along in a small Southern…
Spatial Islamophobia, conflict democracy, and Muslim cemeteries as place-making for the future
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Practices of relation: Baer and Imhoff
Marc David Baer and Sarah Imhoff discuss each other’s works and the ways they intersect.
The elegy for good days: Encounters with Urdu poetry in Delhi
How do we understand the Islamicness of Urdu poetry and also the spread of Urdu poetry far beyond the bounds…
I know I am, but what are you?
For Bouteldja, though boundaries of identity are real and significant, they are also porous, and they must be made ever…
Crossing and conversion: Conclusion
Religious identity is a deeply political fact that takes different shapes in different political configurations. Conversions are therefore suspect and…
Who needs conversion? Jewish conversion in a time of shattered boundaries
The idea that Jewish conversion might be unessential seems both provocative and counterintuitive. . . . Yet, in this short…
Sovereign Jews: An introduction
My recent book, Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism, harnesses the powerful critique of the dominant secular(ist) epistemology, which is…
The politics of national identity: Introduction
Religion is increasingly recognized as a defining feature of political life and as a constitutive element of individual and collective…
Religion in Britain: Demography, identity, and the public sphere
Over at Public Spirit, to coincide with the publication of the second edition of Grace Davie's Religion in Britain, Tariq Modood…
The Charter of Quebec Values derailed
On April 7th the Quebec Liberal Party won a majority government in the 41st Quebec general election, with incumbent Parti…