I want to focus on Salomon’s argument that the secular state—in this case the British colonial one—is in the business…
Taking the Islamic in “the Islamic state” seriously
secularism
“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 .…
Politicizing Islam: An introduction
Politicizing Islam is a comparative ethnography that analyzes the religious and political dynamics of the Islamic revival in France and…
Jeffrey Stout to give Gifford Lectures
Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King May 1 – May 11, 2017, 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.…
Religion and the new populism
The push for stronger cultural identities and political borders in the new populism is inseparable from the general concern about…
Radical Secularization?
In a discussion in the German press about the displacement of continental philosophy in Europe by the increasingly triumphant advance…
Beyond the Secular State? Secularism, Empire, and Hegemony
Monday, November 14, 6:15 to 8:00 p.m. 403 Jerome Greene Hall, Columbia University Three orders of questions regarding secularism—genealogical, philosophical,…
Race and Secularism in America
On September 13, 2016, Clemson University’s head football coach Dabo Swinney was asked what he would do if one of…
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…
A new “Christianist” secularism in Europe
Throughout much of the world, religion manifestly—and sometimes markedly—informs everyday understandings, cultural representations, and political and legal definitions of nationhood.…