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?
Ideology
Revisited: Why do evangelicals vote for Trump?
Four years after his initial essay, Philip Gorski revisits his title question of "Why do evangelicals vote for Trump?" in…
Religion or ideology?
While I cannot nearly do justice here to Slezkine’s ambitious undertaking, I briefly touch upon two points to suggest why…
Gazing into the future
The efflorescence of religious life in China over the past thirty-some years has been truly amazing. In the rural areas…
Race and secularism in America
On October 26 and 27, 2012, Vincent Lloyd and Jonathon Kahn will convene a workshop at Syracuse University on "Race and Secularism in America." From…
Critiquing reductionism
There are reductive categories . . . that have been and should be abandoned in scholarly discourse because the terms…
Islam and Islamism
Barry Rubin, director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International…
Religion is a syncretism (and that’s okay)
There is something very liberating about Jonathan Sheehan’s call for moving orthogonally into the mundanities of everyday research, even though…
Humanists as cultural agents
Without art, Victor Shklovsky writes in "Art as Technique," "life is reckoned as nothing. Habitualization devours works, clothes, furniture, one's…