Conversation with Michael Omi and Howard Winant on the 20th Anniversary of their seminal book, “Racial Formation in the U.S.: From the 1960s to the 1990s” (Routledge, 1994). Facilitated by Professor Tricia Rose, Brown University. Michael Omi is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Associate Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and […]Continue Reading →
The Journal of Muslims in Europe has published a special issue on Salafism in Europe, edited by Sabine Damir-Geilsdorf and Mira Menzfeld, and I had the honour of being one of the writers. Here are all the articles listed, the first is Open Access, the others unfortunately not. Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Empirical Approaches to SalafismIntroduction […]Continue Reading →
Sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein passed away. Probably best known for his work four-volume World‑Systems Analysis. In the video below you see an interview with Immanuel Wallerstein and Étienne Balibar 30 years after their seminal volume Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities on the dynamics between racism, class and nationalist currents.Continue Reading →
Als mannen die moslim zijn en die geweld plegen altijd gedreven worden door ideologie en witte mannen die geen moslim zijn en geweld plegen altijd verward zijn, waarom leidt het eerste dan tot een anti-radicaliseringsbeleid en het tweede niet tot een groot bevolkingsonderzoek naar de geestelijke gesteldheid van witte mannen? Het lijkt me te maken […]Continue Reading →
Opmerkingen bij Michael Walzers The Paradox of Liberation (Yale UP 2015) Gastauteur: Pooyan Tamimi Arab Michael Walzer is politicoloog en filosoof en professor emeritus aan het prestigieuze Institute for Advanced Studies van Princeton University. In zijn recent gepubliceerde boek The Paradox of Liberation: Secular Revolutions and Religious Counterrevolutions verdedigt hij zijn lang gekoesterde ideContinue Reading →
From Tuesday 21 until Friday 24 October 2014, NISIS organises its fifth Autumn School. This year's theme is: "The religious/secular divide in the Muslim world."Continue Reading →
A contribution by Pieter Nanninga, based upon his PhD Jihadism and Suicide Attacks: al-Qaeda, al-Sahab and the Meanings of Martyrdom. Continue Reading →
The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam are looking for a PhD candidate who will participate in the research project 'Forces that bind or divide? Muslim interventions in the public realm 1989 – 2016', directed by Annelies Moors.Continue Reading →
Dutch sociologists R. Eising, G. Kraaykamp, P. Scheepers and P. Thijs, have now published a data guide: Religion in Dutch Society - Documentation of a national survey on religious and secular attitudes and behaviour in 2011-2012. This Data Guide provides the documentation of the research design, the sampling method, and the variables of the national Dutch survey Religion in Dutch Society 2011-2012Continue Reading →
On 19 October 2012 Prof. Birgit Meyer (professor of Religious Studies) will be giving her inaugural lecture on ‘Mediation and the Genesis of Presence. Towards a Material Approach of Religion.’ This will be the concluding contribution to a conference on ‘Materiality, Mediation, and the Study of Religion’, held on 18-19 October in Utrecht. Continue Reading →
