Finding Mecca in America: How Islam is Becoming an American Religion

Near the end of this interesting book, the author characterizes his final chapter as “a series of interpretive judgments...

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Secularism and Religion-Making

Recent scholarship in the sociology of religion has produced fresh perspectives on the understanding of religion and its...

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

The Experiences of Face Veil Wearers in Europe and the Law

The Islamic face veil is now banned in public spaces by several European countries; Austria being the last country to pass...

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Islam and International Relations: Contributions to Theory and Practice

The discipline of International relations (IR) is deeply rooted in the history, intellectual traditions, and agency claims...

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Applied Oriental Studies of Russia’s Own Islam: From Orthodox Missionaries to Militant Godless and Wahhabis

To date the research of Orientalism in Russia did not present the whole mosaic palette of its competing schools and...

Monday, October 1, 2018

Can Islam and Modernity be Reconciled?

Is Islam particularly inimical to modernity, and the two are never to be reconciled? Many westerners and Muslims alike...

Wednesday, July 1, 2009