It is not whether Europe is Christian or not that matters. What matters is who is asking the question and…
Questions of power and privilege in Europe’s relationship with Christianity
Islam
Is Europe Christian?—An introduction
Olivier Roy introduces his argument in Is Europe Christian?, that the real break between contemporary European culture and Christianity is…
Translating Muslim giving into social entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneurship in this case is a means to perform Islam, and the crowdfunding platform is an arena to organize…
Constituting Religion—A reply
From the start, this project was both exhilarating and humbling because the co-constitutive dynamics of law, religion, politics, and society…
The religion trap
There is a trap in the study of religion and politics. All traditions are equally susceptible to it, but as…
Why religion is different: Five contradictions of religion in law
Tamir Moustafa’s Constituting Religion incisively reveals both the enduring and disturbing impacts of constitutional law on the ways Malaysians imagine…
Conversion and demographic anxieties
For readers interested in Islamic law and society, and especially for those who might not have thought that Malaysia is…
Deepening the “zero-sum binary”
Via Islamic finance, “rites” have increased their power over “rights” in Malaysia.
Creating new Sufi publics at an old Sufi shrine
[M]odern Sufis have recognized the importance of music and the arts as a recruitment tool for forming a new Sufi…
Liberal rights and religious rites
While Constituting Religion provides a detailed case study of Malaysia, the argument Moustafa develops has important implications for much of…