Understanding Religion and Politics

How Should We Study Religion?

Defining 'Religion' and 'Secular'

What Is 'Modernity'?

Is Secularisation Inevitable and Desirable?

Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Orientalism

Postsecularism: Why Is Religion Coming Back?

Religion and Nationalism: Hindu Nationalism in India

Religion and Religion: Violence in the Israel-Palestine Conflict

Religious Minorities: Muslims in the 'West' and Islamophobia

Religion, Gender and Sexuality: Uganda and the United States

Troubling the Binary between 'Religious' and 'Secular': Shintoism in Japan

Concluding Thoughts