By, soupsteve311 March, 30, 2022 The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India “This book charts the history of the term communalism and the politics and attitudes it seeks to encapsulate. While attending closely to the social, economic, and political issues underlying Hindu and Muslim struggles, it investigates and meanings different participants in the sectarianContinue reading “Ethnicity, Religion, or Community: Sikh Identity in India and Beyond”

Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip-Hop in the United States by Su’ad Abdul Khabeer Summary: “Drawing on over two years of ethnographic research, Su’ad Abdul Khabeer illuminates the ways in which young and multiethnic US Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds […]

Book One: Christian Slavery Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World by Katharine Gerbner Katherine Gerbner is a teacher at the University of Minnesota and authors Christian Slavery Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World which explore the relationship between Christianity and slavery. Gerbner focuses on the conversion of slaves to the Christian […]

In this post, I will use three books as a way to demonstrate the way in which religion functions as a tool to carve out social space for gender-based groups Pious Fashion How Muslim Women Dress Liz Bucar Main Argument: In Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress, Liz Bucar examines the relationship between gender roles […]

Being Muslim: Women of Color in Islam Women of color are the face of Islam in America so Slyvia Chan-Malik chooses to focus on them since they are shaping America’s perspective of Islam. Chan-Malik interviews different women and looks at feminist movements throughout history in order to discuss the role women of color have played […]

Taking America Back for God by Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry “Taking America Back for God points to the phenomenon of “Christian nationalism,” the belief that the United States is-and should be-a Christian nation. Christian ideals and symbols have long played an important role in American public life, but Christian nationalism is about far more than […]

The book Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject is about the Islamist culture movement in Cairo, Egypt. The book also critiques secular-liberal assumptions that people thought about during the movement. The book discusses three questions including “How do movements of moral reform help us rethink the normative liberal account of politics? How does […]

By: Jordan Bondrowski After the Wrath of God-AIDS, Sexuality & American Religion Main Argument Petro explains how the AIDS crisis in the 1980s was the beginning of the talk of public health and homosexuality in the Church community. In a way Petro explains how the crisis finally brought people together to openly talk about homosexuality […]

Religion as a Determinant of Social Groups The tendency to form social groups is a behavioral characteristic of humans that possibly stems from the evolutionary benefit of being part of a tight group to increase rates of survival in individuals. In this post, I will demonstrate that religion has a functional role of determining both […]

Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States “Drawing on multiple sources of national survey data collected over the past several decades and in-depth interviews, Whitehead and Perry document how Christian nationalism radically shapes what Americans think about who they are as a people, what their future should look like, and how … Continue reading Party in the USA, but the party is religion and some people are hurt by the party and some people have fun →