Religion is increasingly recognized as a defining feature of political life and as a constitutive element of individual and collective…
The politics of national identity: Introduction
secularism
Regulating symbols: The burkini and niqab bans in France
Last month, the image of three police officers standing over a woman on the beach in Nice, supervising the removal…
The Politics of Islamic Law: An introduction
My new book, The Politics of Islamic Law, presents an approach to the study of religion, comparative politics and law…
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…
Post-Doctoral Opportunity at Columbia University IRCPL
The Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life invites applications for postdoctoral scholar positions, for the 2016-2017 academic year.
On France’s theologico-political crisis
Nations have different ways of talking about themselves. Americans tend to discuss their country in an idiom of national greatness,…
A more anxious freedom
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd's Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion is notable for its subtlety and intellectual generosity, as…
A salutary tremor
What logics, strategies, and effects characterize the category of religion as an instrument for governing social life? What possibilities and…
CFP: Putting Truth in the Second Place: On Compromise, Religion and Politics
As part of the COMPROMISE research project at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen will host an international…
Why citizenship (still) matters in France
In the wake of the November 13 terrorist attack, French president François Hollande decided to reinforce France’s security legislation. In…