Mahmood outlines a set of concepts that are historically central to the workings of secularism and elucidates how they facilitate…
Thinking with Saba Mahmood
Judaism
Queer faiths: Can conversions uncover and unsettle racialized religion?
Journalists, politicians and even scholars in Europe commonly use the word “Muslim” to refer not to religion, but to a…
Christian human rights and the Jews
What did Christian human rights mean for Jews? This is not a question that Samuel Moyn considers in any great…
Madonna’s “Isaac”/Madonna’s Akeda—A lesson for scholars, old and young
In 2009, and again in 2010, I taught a class on the Akeda (“Binding of Isaac”) in the arts and…
The multilingual Jewish blogosphere
When new media are introduced into religious communities, they often become sites for struggles over the very nature of mediation.…
Constructing the Jewish public space: Community, identity, and collaboration
The construction of space constitutes one of the primary ways through which religions create templates for behavior. As they construct…
With Cantor loss, only Christian Republicans in Congress
The unexpected primary defeat of Virginia Representative and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor last night is already having seismic effects…
CFP: Remixing Religion
The University of Texas at Austin has announced a call for papers for the upcoming interdisciplinary graduate student conference, "Remixing…
Religion and the environment
Climate change and the environment can be contentious issues, particularly in American politics. Despite political differences, weather events such as…
Emergent feminism among Orthodox Jewish women in Israel
Allison Kaplan Sommer and Dahlia Lithwick write at The New Republic write about the struggles of an emergent form of…