The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the Contradictions of Secularism:...
Editor’s note: The follow is an interview with Mayanthi Fernando, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on her book, The Republic Unsettled: Muslim French and the...
View ArticleScripture Made Me Do It: On Images of Mohammad and Scholarly Offence
by Matt SheedyA recent article from CNN on the shootings in Garland, Texas outside an event sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative on May 3, 2015, provides a useful example of some of the...
View ArticleWhy Paris Matters but Peshawar Does not: Moderate Muslims and the Invention...
by Sher Afgan TareenOn December 16th, nine members of the Pakistan Tehreek-e- Taliban killed one hundred and thirty-two students attending Army Public School at Peshawar, wiping out the entire 9th...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo, “Free Speech,” and Critique
by Matt SheedyIt should go without saying that the massacre of journalists and police officers in Paris this past Wednesday is abhorrent, that the perpetrators should be brought to justice, and that...
View ArticleTeaching Theory in the Introductory Classroom
This is another installment in an ongoing series of posts in a collaborative effort between the Practicum: Critical Theory, Religion, and Pedagogy and the Bulletin for the Study of Religion blogs. On...
View ArticleA Report from the 2014 NEH Summer Institute “Problems in the Study of...
by Natasha MiklesThis summer I had the pleasure of working with Professors Kurtis Schaeffer and Charles Mathewes to run the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute “Problems in...
View ArticleWays of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence
By A.T. CoatesHaven’t we seen this before? When the so-called “Danish Cartoon Controversy” sparked protests around the world in 2005, American media outlets spoke vaguely and often about how the image...
View ArticleRight Reverend: Sex, Contraception, and the Episcopal Body
Since January of this year, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has been one of the most vocal critics of the Obama administration’s mandate that all non-church institutions (including...
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