Imperial Systems and Settler Secularism in India and the United States
TISA WENGER | Most blasphemers were freethinkers who positioned themselves as a vanguard for the “civilized” virtues of reason and freedom..
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- Sep 13
Slandering the Sacred: Forum Introduction
SherAlit Tareen | The very definition of what counts as blasphemy has remained a subject of tremendous debate. . .
- Sep 13
A Forum on Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India
Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is a landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia. . .
- Dec 23, 2022
Thoreau’s Religious Self: A Model for Our Moment?
REBECCA KNEALE GOULD | Alda Balthrop-Lewis is not the first to focus on Thoreau with attention to Thoreau’s religion.
- Dec 23, 2022
Thoreau and the Future of Social Justice
ALDA BALTHROP-LEWIS | At various moments in the 20th century, some corners of US academic culture were blinded to religion
- Dec 22, 2022
A Forum on Alda Balthrop-Lewis’ Thoreau’s Religion
This forum on Alda Balthrop-Lewis' Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism. Cambridge University...
- Dec 9, 2022
Religious Naturalism: Thoreau, Justice, and The Human
CAROL WAYNE WHITE | There is much to mine and appreciate in Alda Balthrop-Lewis’ capacious rendering of Thoreau’s religiosity.
- Oct 14, 2022
Sovereignty and Secularism in Modern Islam: A Response
SHERALI TAREEN | I want to begin by registering my profound gratitude to Ali Altaf Mian for his generous time and efforts
- Sep 30, 2022
Political Theologies: Islam and the Nation-State
MASHAL SAIF | SherAli Tareen’s scintillating book illuminates the intellectual universe
- Sep 30, 2022
Doctrinal Debates in Islam: Beyond Binaries
MEGAN EATON ROBB | SherAli Tareen’s book is a thrilling panoramic view of Barelwi-Deoband debates
- Sep 16, 2022
A/Synchronicity: Text and Context in Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity
NOAH SALOMON | I spent the first year-and-a-half of the Covid-19 pandemic in Beirut on an extended sabbatical.
- Sep 2, 2022
Beyond Mosque and Madrasa: Everyday Theology in Islam
KECIA ALI | As a new bride and a newish Muslim in the mid-1990s, I spent a lot of time being confused.
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