Picture Book: Remembering 9/11
Here are two provocative images I’ve recently seen that relate to the ten year anniversary of 9/11: This one was found via Facebook—shared by a friend of a friend: The text reads: “Flight 93 Born...
View ArticleProfile Me: The Confederate Flag, Shame, and White Male Terror
In spring of 2011, Asra Nomani suggested that ethnic profiling of Muslim Americans was a legal and moral imperative given her community’s failure to adequately police itself. A year later, she...
View ArticleAssociation for the Sociology of Religion Call For Papers: San Francisco, Aug...
CALL FOR PAPERSASSOCIATION FOR THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION76th Annual Meeting: RELIGION AS A SOCIAL FORCESan Francisco, CA, August 13-15, 2014J.W. Marriott Union SquareDEADLINES: Session Proposals are...
View ArticleTerrorism in Paris: Religious Violence and the Role of the Scholar of Religion
By Philip L. TiteThis past weekend was marked by a horrific act of violence in Paris, leaving at least 129 people dead, hundreds more injured, and millions in shock and grief. Bombs and shootings...
View ArticleThe Study of Religion and Responses to Terrorism: Paris, Beirut and Beyond,...
by Stephanie FrankDeeply concerned by events unfolding immediately before the American Academy of Religion’s (AAR) 2015 annual meeting in Atlanta, Todd Green and I put together a panel addressing the...
View ArticleScripting Acts of Violence: Intersectionality and the Orlando Shooting
By Philip L. TiteAt 2 a.m. this past Sunday morning in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida gunshots were heard by patrons. The nightmare that they experienced did not end until 5 a.m. when police...
View ArticleMuslim Terror
This post originally appeared on the Culture on the Edge blog.by Ian Alexander CuthbertsonOn January 29, 2017 six people were killed and others left in critical condition following a shooting at a...
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