When states support reproductive technologies, they are supporting pronatalism. When access to that reproductive technology in unequal and intentionally directed…
nationalism
Catholicism and European politics: Two new trends
I want to offer a reflection on two religious developments in contemporary Europe that highlight but also challenge Roy’s account…
Practices of relation: Gorski and Perry
Sociologists Philip Gorski and Samuel Perry engage one another in critical dialogue around White Christian Nationalism in the United States.
Virtual populist regimes
In this contribution I will focus mainly on the cine-populism of south India and the Indian national populisms, which share…
A conversation between Sara Farris and Joan Wallach Scott
As the final installment of the series “Sex, secularism, and ‘femonationalism,’” Sara Farris, author of In the Name of Women’s Rights,…
On In the Name of Women’s Rights
Femonationalism is the term I introduce to describe both how nationalist right-wing parties exploit feminist ideas within Islamophobic campaigns, and…
India in the American imagination: Historicizing the politics of representation
Continuing to reinforce the centrality of white Protestant capitalist culture to American identity sometimes requires Americans to turn their hostile…
Is the “native” secular?
Headlines scream of burgeoning populism around the world, but the shift in politics today could also be described as a…
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Ali and Khomeini
This is the fourth installment in this series of paired essays. In this post, Noah Salomon reflects on Noble Drew…
Beheading the Saint: An introduction
Beheading the Saint is about the shifting relationship between nationalism, religion, and secularism in a society which was, until the…