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Tag Archives: Islamophobia
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
The Canadian “Terror Plot”: Same Scripts, Different Heroes (well, sort of)
by Matt Sheedy News broke this past Monday about a “terror plot” that was foiled by Canadian law enforcement and security units, where two men with alleged links to al Qaeda in Iran planned to blow up a passenger train … 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
Now Published – Bulletin for the Study of Religion 42.1 (February 2013)
The February issue of the Bulletin has been published and is available in both print and electronic versions. Below is the table of contents of this issue, which includes a set of papers emerging from the 2011 Society of Biblical … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Editorial, Philip L. Tite, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method, Theory in the Real World, Uncategorized
Tagged Bulletin for the Study of Religion, Craig Martin, Critical Theory, Darlene Juschka, feminist theory, Gnosticism, Islam, Islamophobia, Julianne Hammer, Matt Sheedy, Michael Kaler, Nag Hammadi, Religious Experience, Risto Uro, Stephen Bush, Women's Studies
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Critical Questions Series 2: Hussein Rashid
Hussein Rashid is an adjunct professor at Fordham and Hofstra Universities and is an associate editor at Religion Dispatches. His specialties include Islam in America, Shi’ism, Islamicate literatures, South Asia, Persianate world (including Central Asia). * Image courtesy of Ali Ansary, … Continue reading
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