Overall, the book aims to do two things: First, to offer a history that documents the ways in which gender…
secularism
Material mourning in the secular sculpture garden
The memorialization of Soviet soldiers in Berlin was not simply a functional political tactic; it was an expression of national…
The new ecumenism
How does the relationship between religion and politics relate to the changing political constellations we are now seeing, especially given…
The Age of Cat
Cat videos offer a pleasurable diversion. The cat video answers the question “Is this all there is?” by saying, “This…
Sovereign Jews: An introduction
My recent book, Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism, and Judaism, harnesses the powerful critique of the dominant secular(ist) epistemology, which is…
Comparison and classification in American religious history
The Centennial Exhibition of 1876 and, even more spectacularly, the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 reveal the power of the…
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…