Between Christ and Caliph SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography Making Pagans reconceptualizes the material

Making Pagans reconceptualizes the material and iterative practices of the theater as central to the construction of radical religious difference in early modernity and of the category of paganism as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambition

Mieka Brand Polanco examines the concept of community in the United States: how communities are experienced and understood

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offers clear and direct recommendations to guide both interested citizens and national policymakers as they attempt to grapple with the complexities of ethnic and nationalist politics in Europe

Between Christ and Caliph SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography Making Pagans reconceptualizes the materialIn the conventional historical narrative, the medieval Middle East was composed of autonomous religious traditions, each with distinct doctrines, rituals, and institutions. Outside the world of theology, however, and beyond the walls of the mosque or the church, the multireligious social order of the medieval Islamic empire was complex and dynamic. Peoples of different faithsSunnis, Shiites, Christians, Jews, and othersinteracted with each other in