My new book, The Politics of Islamic Law, presents an approach to the study of religion, comparative politics and law…
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
law and religion
Keeping up with “culture”
Benjamin Berger’s Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism is a welcome addition to the vibrantly interdisciplinary scholarship on…
Another Law’s Religion
I cannot help but see a pun in the title of Benjamin Berger's book, Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the…
Making up people
Several decades ago in an essay entitled “Making Up People,” the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking wrote that, “if new modes…
Law as religion
Ben Berger’s book Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism is a work of great insight. I found…
The uncertainty principles of Heisenberg and Hurd
In the late 1920s, the theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a series of scientific papers proposing that the universe could…
The pathologies of religious freedom
In the preface to his 1947 essay, Humanism and Terror: An Essay on the Communist Problem, French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty…
Equality time
Most of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is an original and thorough exploration of the historical…
Secularism at home and abroad
The stark divide between the sacred and the profane engendered by the Great Separation between religion and politics in the…
Coalitions and slippery slopes: The same-sex marriage debate continues
Earlier this summer, the Supreme Court of the United States confirmed the constitutional right of same-sex couples to marry. Unsurprisingly,…