What logics, strategies, and effects characterize the category of religion as an instrument for governing social life? What possibilities and…
A salutary tremor
tolerance
Thinking with Saba Mahmood
Mahmood outlines a set of concepts that are historically central to the workings of secularism and elucidates how they facilitate…
A Kingdom that no longer says Whatever
As a scholar working and living in the Netherlands, I apparently live in a state of affairs in which disinterested…
The problem with the history of toleration
The problem with the history of toleration is not that no one is studying it. There is now a rapidly…
Public sociology: rigor and relevance
Any authors would be pleased by an array of laudatory and thoughtful comments on their work, especially by a group…
Politics of Faith—The Role of Religion in Divided Societies
America Abroad, the award-winning documentary radio program, has released a new documentary, "The Politics of Faith---The Role of Religion in…
A historian’s reaction to American Grace
David Campbell's and Robert Putnam's American Grace left me historically puzzled on my first reading, and my second didn't clear things up.…
American religion in the era of Fosdick’s revenge
Is bland beautiful? Almost never, most of us would say. But when it comes to religion in a diverse society,…
“Why Americans should care about Ahmadiyya Muslims”
Naseem Mahdi, vice president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, hopes to call attention to the Ahmadiyya movement as a…
Stephen Prothero on inter-religious difference, again
Charles Gelman has already posted here on Stephen Prothero's book God is Not One, but a new interview with the…