In the United States, the Middle East is almost always presented as a problem to be solved—most significantly, the problem…
Democracy and the secular predicament
secularism
Equality time
Most of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is an original and thorough exploration of the historical…
Minority matters
Trenchantly framed as “a minority report,” Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report offers more than just…
Thinking with Saba Mahmood
Mahmood outlines a set of concepts that are historically central to the workings of secularism and elucidates how they facilitate…
Secularism at home and abroad
The stark divide between the sacred and the profane engendered by the Great Separation between religion and politics in the…
In praise of heresy
It seems as if there’s been an avalanche of inquiries into the precarious status of religious minorities in Muslim-majority societies…
Legal age
“Now let us see how Bauer formulates the role of the state,” writes Karl Marx in his famous take on…
A thought-provoking study
In Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, Saba Mahmood has produced a valuable account both of how the…
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report—An introduction
It is no exaggeration to say that the religious diversity that characterized the Middle East for centuries is in precipitous…
Religion, Secularism, and Constitutional Democracy
Secularism has many critics in the academy these days, but not all have given up on it. This is made…