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J. BARTON SCOTT | Perilous Intimacies would seem a major step in the right direction—bringing new and welcome energy to...

Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire is a master class in how to open a dense intellectual archive. . .

J. BARTON SCOTT | Polemic was the literary genre of choice for this intimately visceral boundary-work...

DEONNIE MOODIE | Circulations of anti-priestcraft produced the ideal of the liberal subject that would not require external rule ...

ANAND VIVEK TANEJA | Those who would rule over the country and bring justice and order to it had first to rule themselves...

MARKO GESLANI | Like Protestantism in the history of Western secularism, Hinduism operates as secular frame and religious content. . .

TISA WENGER | Most blasphemers were freethinkers who positioned themselves as a vanguard for the “civilized” virtues of reason and freedom..

SherAlit Tareen | The very definition of what counts as blasphemy has remained a subject of tremendous debate. . .

Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is a landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia. . .

REBECCA KNEALE GOULD | Alda Balthrop-Lewis is not the first to focus on Thoreau with attention to Thoreau’s religion.

ALDA BALTHROP-LEWIS | At various moments in the 20th century, some corners of US academic culture were blinded to religion

This forum on Alda Balthrop-Lewis' Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism. Cambridge University...