While Constituting Religion provides a detailed case study of Malaysia, the argument Moustafa develops has important implications for much of…
Liberal rights and religious rites
political science
From Jefferson to Jeffersonian battles
Among the scholars who have most inspired my work as a political scientist are multiple historians—whether intellectual, legal, or religious.…
Rethinking religion in a political scientific wilderness
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion makes an extremely important and timely contribution to a conversation that…
CFP: Working with A Secular Age
On March 6-8, 2014, the University of Bern will host an international conference entitled "Working with A Secular Age: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Charles…
New report on religion and international relations
A working group on "international relations and religion," convened by Michael Desch and Daniel Philpott, recently released released a detailed report.
Religion and the Political Imagination
Religion and the Political Imagination is a volume, edited by Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones, that brings together a…
Blurring the boundaries
Four guided missiles packed with explosive material hurtled into the morning sky. Though the day was brilliant blue and cloudless,…
Religion and political liberalism
Jason Brennan (Assistant Professor of Business and Philosophy at Georgetown), and Kevin Vallier (Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green)…
A suspension of (dis)belief
Most academic discussions in political science and international relations presuppose a fixed definition of the secular and the religious and…
“Does Egypt Need a Pharaoh?”
Political scientists Alfred Stepan and Juan Linz argue, in an article for Project Syndicate, that a democratic transition following the…