At The Revealer, Jeremy F. Walton offers insight on the recent controversy surrounding the NYPD's use of The Third Jihad…
Islam
A coherent integration policy for Europe
In the New York Times opinion pages, Boston College political science professor Jonathan Laurence argues that it's up to---and in…
Normative or empirical comparisons?
Monika Wohlrab-Sahr confesses that she is not an expert with regard to “the value of normative theory for legal and…
Multiple secularities and their normativity as an empirical subject
It is difficult to come to an agreement when normative issues are concerned. Are the “moderate” forms of European secularisms…
Politics of Faith—The Role of Religion in Divided Societies
America Abroad, the award-winning documentary radio program, has released a new documentary, "The Politics of Faith---The Role of Religion in…
Taking a stance
Akeel Bilgrami’s “Secularism: It’s Content and Context” is both fascinating and wide-ranging... Whether or not one agrees with the notion…
American Grace and public sociology
Robert Putnam and David E. Campbell’s American Grace follows up on these Tocquevillean themes, exploring the contemporary American religious landscape to understand,…
I thought we were all past this
Spencer Ackerman discusses at length the "dozens of pages of recent FBI training material on Islam that Danger Room has…
Thoughts on Near Eastern legal culture
My colleagues at The Talmud Blog asked me to provide a guest post about my research interests.
Beyond moderate secularism
For Modood, moderate secularism can and should go on more or less as it is, but, in order to accommodate…