Headlines scream of burgeoning populism around the world, but the shift in politics today could also be described as a…
Is the “native” secular?
nationalism
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…
The Weimar Century
The international turn in intellectual history, which David Armitage announced in 2014, has evolved into a surge of publications on…
On “beyond Trump”: Evangelical politics, born again
Survey data indicates a growing generational split among evangelicals, with the younger generation supporting a range of left-leaning policies that…
Building secularity via religious revival and the “patrimonialization” of religion
While crude secularization theories predicting the end of religion have, in response to strong criticism, been refined to be less…
The politics of national identity: Introduction
Religion is increasingly recognized as a defining feature of political life and as a constitutive element of individual and collective…
Hobbesian Catholicism on the rise in Poland?
The right-wing Law and Justice Party victory in the 2015 parliamentary and presidential elections has opened a new chapter in…
On France’s theologico-political crisis
Nations have different ways of talking about themselves. Americans tend to discuss their country in an idiom of national greatness,…
Beyond religious nationalism
When Pope John Paul II visited Poland in 1979, he used his addresses and homilies to speak of faith and…