The Literary Politics of the Christian Left – by Christopher Douglas
If we want to think about the literary politics of American religion, we might imagine an informal Christian Right alliance between George W.
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Corrective Spaces – by Sarah E. Bond
Sarah E. Bond on Julia Hillner’s Prison, Punishment, and Penance in Late Antiquity Curated spaces have the ability to embody our belief systems,
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Urban Afterlives – by Dana Robinson
Dana Robinson on Hendrik W. Dey’s Afterlife of the Roman City The fall of Rome was an urban affair. Alaric’s sack of the
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Feeling Sorry the Wrong Way – by Anthony Bash
Anthony Bash on David Lambert’s How Repentance Became Biblical In some ways, regret, repentance, and remorse are popular emotions in the modern world.
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The Interpretative Pivot: Hermeneutics and the Contemporary Decline of Islamic Pluralism – by Peter Gottschalk
The sixth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? In the penultimate chapter – “Applications and Implications: Coherent Contradiction, Exploration,
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Reconceptualization, Pre-Text, and Con-text – by Sajjad Rizvi
The fifth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? We use categories and concepts in order to communicate something to
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What is Islam? A Celebration and Defense of Contradiction Perplexity and Paradox – by Anna Bigelow
The fourth essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? If Shahab Ahmed were still with us to defend the complex
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The Problem with Being Islamic: Definitional and Theoretical Limits and Legacies – by Zareena Grewal
The third essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? Last semester I began my graduate seminar, “Interrogating the ‘Crisis’ of
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First Impressions #89: Religion, Science, and Conflict in American Public Life
Why do religion and science often appear in conflict in America’s public sphere? The more fundamental divide is between how media elites and ordinary Americans
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The Priority of the Political: Politics Determines the Possibilities of Islam – by Mohammad H. Fadel
The second essay in a forum on Shahab Ahmed’s What is Islam? Chapter 2 of “What is Islam?” is primarily a deconstructive project
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