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Dec 5
Friendship, Sovereignty, and Translation
ILYSE MORGENSTEIN FUERST |This matrix of friendship, sovereignty, and translation seems portable, applied across fields. . .
Nov 22
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Slandering the Sacred: Forum Introduction
SherAlit Tareen | The very definition of what counts as blasphemy has remained a subject of tremendous debate. . .
Sep 13
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. . .
Dec 23, 2022
Thoreau’s Religious Self: A Model for Our Moment?
REBECCA KNEALE GOULD | Alda Balthrop-Lewis is not the first to focus on Thoreau with attention to Thoreau’s religion.
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