Where is the religion in this case and what kind of religion is it?
Is Masterpiece Cakeshop a church?
religious freedom
A crisis of political arrogance
In this series, scholars and practitioners attend to these varied ways in which religious individuals and groups engage in public…
The Idea of the Muslim World and the global politics of religion
The idea of the Muslim world enables narratives in which Islam “causes” people to do things.
On the evolution and impact of anti-Muslim polemics
Nadia Marzouki’s Islam: An American Religion is one of the most exciting books I have read on Islam in the…
On the recent past, fraught present, and tenuous future of Turkish Muslim civil society
To practice anthropology is to accept an implicit temporal double bind: We think we write ethnography, but frequently our expositions…
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.…
Muslim fears and Muslim rights
Muslims played a crucial role in determining the full extent of religious liberty in the early history of the United…
The American tradition of tolerance and free speech
Much has happened since Denise Spellberg’s Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an came out in 2013. When I first read it, I treasured…
“I am not a racist, but . . .”: The perversity of the recent ECJ ruling on the “headscarf issue”
It is by now commonplace that ostensibly “neutral” language—such as the notorious preamble “I am not a racist, but .…
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Moreton and Paarlberg
"For its proponents, Americans and perhaps others, Christian free enterprise is not a religion but a natural way of being,…