Here’s my review of Abby Day’s Believing in Belonging which appeared in last year’s edition of the Journal of Religion and Society [Obsolete link removed. Original url: https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2012.030114]. Though I didn’t quite buy the...
As promised, here’s a post-print version of my Cultures of Belief article, which was published in Anthropological Theory. cultures-of-belief-post-print [Obsolete link removed. Original url: {static}/assets/pdf/cultures-of-belief-post-print.pdf]...
I’ve just had a new paper out in Anthropological Theory [Obsolete link removed. Original url: https://doi.org/10.1177/146349961246958] — this is behind a paywall, I’ll make a post-print version available through this website soon for those who...
This is a cross-post from ethics.CRASSH. Felicitas Becker on Islamic reformism and Sufi traditionalism in Tanzania I’ve just read two fascinating papers by Felicitas Becker [Obsolete link removed. Original url:...
I’ve launched a new website as part of my current project at CRASSH. It’s called ethics.CRASSH [Obsolete link removed. Original url: http://ethics.crassh.cam.ac.uk] and at the moment it’s covering the Speaking Ethically Across Borders Project,...
Here’s an interesting interview with Stuart Hall, in which he speaks about cosmopolitanism and rootedness — relevant to the previous post: http://www.sms.cam.ac.uk/media/1119965 Pnina Werbner interviewing — I’ve transcribed the most relevant bit...
Diogenes the Cynic, a citizen of the world, in a painting by John William Waterhouse Tuesday saw the first of a series of reading groups that I’m organizing at CRASSH on the subject of ethical conversations across borders [Obsolete link removed....
I am reading Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory [Obsolete link removed. Original url:...
Thanks to Theo Kyriakides (@bio_karneia), who was present at the GDAT debate on neoliberalism [Obsolete link removed. Original url: ../2012-12-05-gdat-neoliberalism-anthropology] for alerting me to a post by Kathleen Fitzpatrick of Pomona...
There is a great new resource on the sociology of ignorance at: http://www.sociologyofignorance.com/ (edit: site not working as of June 2023). The site is run by Joanne Gaudet and supported by Matthias Gross. It already has a very useful bibliography.