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Seeking a Whole Life: Muhammad Asad’s Critique of the Secular Self
By Suzanne Schneider Perhaps the only thing more extraordinary than Muhammad Asad’s life is the fact that he is not better known. After all, how many Jewish converts to Islam who befriended Ibn Saud,...
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Shooting in the Name Of
Pamela Geller reading Charlie Hebdo By Patrick Blanchfield Late last month, American officials announced the death of high-ranking Al Qaeda spokesperson and US citizen Adam Yahiye Gadahn, killed in a...
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Under the Mask of Marvels
By Rex Barnes For nearly two decades Marvel Studios has crafted a powerfully imaginative universe of superheroes—often referred to as the MCU (Marvel Cinematic Universe). With the release of Avengers:...
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Review: Islam in Liberalism (Part 2)
By Fouad Halbouni Joseph Massad. Islam in Liberalism. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015. Joseph Massad’s new book, Islam and Liberalism, traces how liberal thinkers and policy makers have...
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Review: Religion, Science, and Empire
By Anand Venkatkrishnan If I had to name one book I wish had been around when I was beginning graduate studies in South Asian Religion, it would be Peter Gottschalk’s Religion, Science, and Empire:...
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How Not To Do What We Always Do
By Donovan Schaefer Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression by Hector A. Garcia, Psy.D. Prometheus Books, 2015 “I sometimes try to imagine what would have happened if we’d known...
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Rituals of Transformation in Jill Soloway’s “Transparent”
By Geoffrey Pollick Image Credit: Amazon Studios In the second season of her award-winning television series Transparent, Jill Soloway sets ritual to work as a principal storytelling device and a...
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Same God, Different Freedoms?
Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins is greeted with applause from supporters as she begins her remarks during a news conference on Dec. 16, 2015, in Chicago. (Brian Cassella / Chicago Tribune) By...
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Special Pleading: On the Identity Politics of “Blue Lives Matter”
By Patrick Blanchfield “Here one is reminded of a somewhat modified expression of Proudhon’s: whoever invokes humanity wants to cheat. To confiscate the word humanity, to invoke and monopolize such a...
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The Medium of Reformation Messages: Celebrating Luther’s Legacy, Part II
“Law and Grace” (1529) painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder By Becky Garrison The German National Tourist Board has been commemorating the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses with a Luther...
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