The slim crescent that rose above the skyline on July 9th signifies the beginning of this year’s holy month of…
Revisited: The “good” and the “bad” Muslims of China
Islam
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I see several old Southern Baptist and Methodist churches, some with graveyards, as I drive along in a small Southern…
White Christian nationalism and the racial politics of analogy
What if the crowds who attacked the United States Capitol building on January 6, 2021, were not dominantly white and…
American evangelicals, Islam, and defining the “other”
How should we understand conflicts over identity, theological boundaries, and orthodoxy within religious communities and across religious, national, and racial…
Religion(s) and the rule of law: Let us compare mythologies
The glittering and hurting days are almost done Then let us compare mythologies I have learned my elaborate lie of…
The rule of law never dies
"Law, religion, and state building" features essays by leading scholars and policy analysts who consider the entanglements of law, religion,…
Toward illiberal secularisms in Western francophone societies
Secularism requires that the state be separate from, and neutral vis-à-vis, religious groups. The state must also protect the religious…
Monotheistic religious nationalisms in India and Pakistan
On January 17, 2023, BBC World aired the first episode of its controversial two-part miniseries titled India: The Modi Question.…
Telling a story of death and its disclosures
When shared in the frame of solidarity, our stories reveal the matrices of power that require unmaking; they also provide…
A Middle Eastern indigenous critique?
…I ask how Dawn might help us to think of the Americas and the Middle East together. What is to…