The international turn in intellectual history, which David Armitage announced in 2014, has evolved into a surge of publications on…
The Weimar Century
nationalism
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…
What is religion in China? A brief history
The complex and ever-changing relationship between the Chinese state and the nation’s religions stretches back thousands of years. While the…
Multiculturalism in Europe
After the rise of multicultural policies in the 1980s and 1990s, the winds have shifted in Europe. Terrorist attacks in…
The new faces of the European far-right
With the ascent of Marine Le Pen to the head of the National Front and her growing popularity in the…
Newt Gingrich’s secular, Islamic America
Matt Yglesias parses Newt Gingrich's (only) ostensibly contradictory statement, that "if we do not decisively win the struggle over the…