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Author Archives: Donovan Schaefer
Bill Maher and the Bowl of Common Sense: White Atheism and Islamophobia, Part 2
by Donovan Schaefer Comedy makes me uncomfortable. Comedy starts with the creation of a zone of common sense, then defines whatever happens outside that zone as laughable. This boundary-line of common sense is not drawn through a patient elaboration of … Continue reading
Shelter in Place: How to Talk about the Alleged Boston Marathon Bombers?
by Donovan Schaefer White. Foreign. Muslim. Young. Traumatized. Conservative. Isolated? Americanized. The Tsarnaev brothers, believed by law enforcement to have been responsible for last Monday’s bombing attack at the Boston Marathon, fit poorly into existing media scripts about the perpetrators … Continue reading
On the Muslim Question: White Atheism and Islamophobia, Part 1
by Donovan Schaefer Karl Marx’s “On the Jewish Question” is a systematic critique of the particularism of religious commitments as an obstacle to the coalescence of the true community of a non-sectarian state. Both Christianity and Judaism are slotted in … Continue reading
Critical Questions Series 2: Donovan Schaefer
In this second instalment of the Critical Questions Series, we ask scholars of religion how they negotiate the difficult line between “politics” and scholarship. The previous responses can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. The line between scholarship and politics or, if you … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer
Tagged academic responsibility, common sense, quakers, social justice
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Affect, Tactics, and Islamophobia
Yesterday, Matt Sheedy posted an analysis of this short documentary clip posted on nytimes.com in December by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (perhaps best known for their 2006 documentary feature, Jesus Camp), showing demonstrators drowning out an anti-Islam sermon delivered … Continue reading
Theses on Guns, Apocalypticism, and American Religion
by Donovan Schaefer “When freedom shivers in the cold shadow of true peril, it’s always the patriots who first hear the call. When loss of liberty is looming–as it is now– The siren sounds first, in the hearts of freedom’s … Continue reading
Masks of Fear: IDF and Hamas
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a mutual hostage-taking. Without lapsing into the myth of parity, it is safe to say that there is an ongoing and systematic deployment of fear and violence designed to immobilize, destroy, and control bodies on both … Continue reading
Posted in Donovan Schaefer, Politics and Religion, Religion in the News
Tagged affect, fear, Islamophobia, Israel, Palestine
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