Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Grossman’s story is first of all the story of a mother whose burning love for her young son collapses under the national narrative of violence and death.
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Right-wing attention to Coptic conditions in Egypt has historically placed diaspora communities in a contradiction-laden position.
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There is genuine concern among many Christians in the Middle East that “Freedom of Religious Belief” will be weaponized as a platform for populism, religious nationalism, and colonial interventions.
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Haeri’s book enables us to keep this mystical language alive in our classroom while making sure we don’t ossify it as the orientalists did, and only see it as part of Islam’s past, the domain of rarefied male elites, and as disconnected to living Muslims today
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Decolonial comparative theology examines hybrid formations engaged in material struggle against neoliberalism and neocolonialism in religious studies and in the broader spiritual marketplace.
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Decolonial and decolonizing currents are not monolithic.
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Scholarship monitors the intrusion of theology into the discipline, while allowing colonialist assumptions to go unchecked and unthought.
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The anthropological discourse about religion was from the outset deeply implicated in the discourse of race and in projects of global expansion and socio-political control.
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