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Feb 9
Hospitality and Hostility in Colonial South Asia
ELAINE FISHER | By pursuing this sort of boundary-crossing inquiry, we might come to better articulate how. . .

Dec 5, 2024
Friendship, Sovereignty, and Translation
ILYSE MORGENSTEIN FUERST |This matrix of friendship, sovereignty, and translation seems portable, applied across fields. . .


Nov 22, 2024
The Limits of Imperial Political Theology
SUPRIYA GANDHI | The recent global rise in authoritarianism and hyper-nationalism underscores the need for complex, nuanced histories...


Nov 22, 2024
Perilous Intimacies: Forum Introduction
J. BARTON SCOTT | Perilous Intimacies would seem a major step in the right direction—bringing new and welcome energy to...


Nov 22, 2024
A Forum on Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire
Perilous Intimacies: Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire is a master class in how to open a dense intellectual archive. . .

Nov 8, 2024
The Secular History of Religious Feelings: A Response
J. BARTON SCOTT | Polemic was the literary genre of choice for this intimately visceral boundary-work...


Oct 25, 2024
Prophets, Polemics, and Parasitic Nationalism
DEONNIE MOODIE | Circulations of anti-priestcraft produced the ideal of the liberal subject that would not require external rule ...

Oct 25, 2024
The Outrage of Modernity: Loss of the Spiritual Self and the Rise of State Rule
ANAND VIVEK TANEJA | Those who would rule over the country and bring justice and order to it had first to rule themselves...


Oct 11, 2024
The Secular West: The Hindu and Protestant Connection
MARKO GESLANI | Like Protestantism in the history of Western secularism, Hinduism operates as secular frame and religious content. . .


Sep 27, 2024
Imperial Systems and Settler Secularism in India and the United States
TISA WENGER | Most blasphemers were freethinkers who positioned themselves as a vanguard for the “civilized” virtues of reason and freedom..

Sep 13, 2024
Slandering the Sacred: Forum Introduction
SherAlit Tareen | The very definition of what counts as blasphemy has remained a subject of tremendous debate. . .


Sep 13, 2024
A Forum on Slandering the Sacred: Blasphemy Law and Religious Affect in Colonial India
Slandering the Sacred by J. Barton Scott is a landmark study in the field of religion and South Asia. . .
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