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A Forum on Alda Balthrop-Lewis’ Thoreau’s Religion

January 3, 2023January 3, 2023

Contributors Religious Naturalism: Thoreau, Justice, and The Human, Carol Wayne White, Presidential Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Bucknell University Thoreau’s Religious Self: ... [Read More]

Thoreau and The Future of Social Justice

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022

Alda Balthrop-Lewis At various moments in the 20th century, some corners of US academic culture were blinded to religion, having been seduced by ... [Read More]

Thoreau’s Religious Self: A Model for Our Moment?

December 23, 2022December 23, 2022

Rebecca Kneale Gould on Thoreau’s Religion Alda Balthrop-Lewis is not the first to focus on Thoreau with attention to Thoreau’s religion. She is, ... [Read More]

Sovereignty and Secularism in Modern Islam: A Response

October 14, 2022October 14, 2022

SherAli Tareen Responds to Forum Contributors I want to begin by registering my profound gratitude to Ali Altaf Mian for his generous time ... [Read More]

Doctrinal Debates in Islam: Beyond Binaries

September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

Megan Eaton Robb on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s book is a thrilling panoramic view of Barelwi-Deoband debates that animated the 19th-century reformist milieu ... [Read More]

Political Theologies: Islam and the Nation-State

September 30, 2022September 30, 2022

Mashal Saif on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s scintillating book illuminates the intellectual universe of colonial-era South Asian traditional Muslim scholars (‘ulama’). It does ... [Read More]

A/Synchronicity: Text and Context in Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity

September 16, 2022June 19, 2023

Noah Salomon on SherAli Tareen I spent the first year-and-a-half of the Covid-19 pandemic in Beirut on an extended sabbatical. As a way of ... [Read More]

Beyond Mosque and Madrasa: Everyday Theology in Islam

September 2, 2022September 2, 2022

Kecia Ali on SherAli Tareen As a new bride and a newish Muslim in the mid-1990s, I spent a lot of time being ... [Read More]

Traditions and Tensions: Islam in Modern South Asia

August 19, 2022August 19, 2022

Ali Altaf Mian on SherAli Tareen SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muḥammad in Modernity models an extended set of close readings of nineteenth- and early ... [Read More]

A Forum on SherAli Tareen’s Defending Muhammad in Modernity

August 19, 2022May 30, 2023

University of Notre Dame Press This forum on SherAli Tareen’s landmark study, Defending Muhammad in Modernity, illuminates several key terms in the study ... [Read More]

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