Professor of Global Politics & Religion at Northwestern. New book: Heaven Has a Wall
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo248382196.html
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“Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation.“
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The voices of ordinary seafarers stranded in the Strait of Hormuz.
A forthcoming @dukepress.bsky.social book I will be reading. "According to Islamic tradition, God has at least ninety-nine names. In Ninety-Nine, Amira Mittermaier presents ninety-nine short chapters based on her fieldwork and interviews with over one hundred Egyptians about who God is to them."
In our current @Theosthinktank Reading our Times series on the rise of religious nationalism, we come to one of the most difficult topics, in conversation with Hannah Strømmen, namely how the far right weaponises the Bible. Sober listening. tinyurl.com/2nr9893a
Beth Shakman Hurd
NEW: Alex Pretti Student Support Fund
Created in memory of alumnus Alex Pretti (BA '11), this fund will provide debt relief and emergency support for students in the Department of Geography, Environment & Society at the University of Minnesota.
Beth Shakman Hurd
A different understanding of what it means to be American, from the left but for everyone.
Spread the word: Postdoc at the Institute for Religion, Culture & Public Life at Columbia. Preference to projects that seriously engage with the theme of religion and at least one of the other two dimensions.
If I could go back in time…
Stephanie Saldaña reviews Heaven Has a Wall for The Christian Century.
Good news. A three-judge panel from the US court of appeals for the DC circuit found that immigration laws give people the right to apply for asylum at the border, and the president cannot circumvent that.
Andrew Simon
“faculty criticized what they view as Columbia’s implication that all Jews identify with the state of Israel as “textbook antisemitism”, and argued that by repressing pro-Palestinian speech in the name of Jewish safety, the university turned Jews into “scapegoats”.
Podcast Episode · Reading Our Times · 2 June · 42min
