The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and, even more spectacularly, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 reveal the power of the…
Comparison and classification in American religious history
secularism
Graceless
How many hours can you spend disappearing yourself into the textures and surfaces, the hidden corners and sonic cul-de-sacs, of…
Secularism and Hindutva histories
In response to the question “Is this all there is?” I turn to ruptures and fields of contestation to reflect…
Do my socks respond to my caress?
While I am no longer quite so jubilantly messy, I have always had trouble putting my things in order. Stuff…
“Keep your money, I got my own”
There is something profoundly counterintuitive about a vision of the world reveling in cash and also raising political consciousness. But…
History and theorizing the secular
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Six short reflections contribute to an ongoing conversation about the value of history to any analysis of secularism, religion, and the…
The contested worlds of world literature
Reading Michael Allan’s In the Shadow of World Literature, I thought of two competing ways to understand political impasses. On…
Future fanatics of world literature?
While this future world literature is hospitable—more broadly, to aspiring critics, and, in a more specialized sense, to literary scholars…
The archaeology of a discipline and the discipline to come
Michael Allan’s groundbreaking new book In the Shadow of World Literature gives us one of the most moving and powerful…
Secularism and the Animist Indigene
In the prompt that we sent to the authors participating in this forum, Vincent Lloyd and I asked a series of questions…