Books
Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2025.
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion. Princeton, 2015.
Interview with the author (New Books Network) here and (E-IR) here
Immanent Frame series
Syndicate Theology series
Religion in American History review
Interview with Tehran Times
The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics). Princeton, 2008. Winner of the American Political Science Association’s Hubert Morken Award for the Best Book in Religion and Politics (2008-2010).
Interview with the author in Religion Dispatches
At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion. Co-edited with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021.
Review at Reading Religion (2024)
Theologies of American Exceptionalism. Open access. Co-edited with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019 online, 2021 paper and hardcover.
Politics of Religious Freedom (co-edited with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Saba Mahmood & Peter G. Danchin). Chicago, 2015.
Discussion at The Immanent Frame, 2012.
Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age, co-edited with Linell Cady. Palgrave, 2010 (2013, paper).
Journal articles
“‘Where People Come to Press Close to the Other Side’: Religion, Politics, and the American Border.” American Religion 3, no. 2 (Spring 2022): 108–116.
“Freedom, Salvation, Redemption: Theologies of Political Asylum.” Migration and Society 4 (2021): 110-123.
“Politics of Religious Freedom in the Asia Pacific: An Introduction.” Journal of Religious and Political Practice, 4 (1), 2018.
“Narratives of De-secularization in International Relations.” Intellectual History Review, 27 (1): 97-113.
“Politics of Sectarianism: Rethinking Religion and Politics in the Middle East.” Middle East Law and Governance, 7, no.1 (Spring 2015): 61-75.
“Introduction to Politics of Religious Freedom: Case Studies.” Maryland Journal of International Law, vol. 29 (2015): 288-99, co-authored with Peter G. Danchin, Saba Mahmood & Winnifred Fallers Sullivan.
“Thinking About Religion, Law, and Politics in Latin America.” Special Issue, “Religiones, Post-secularidad y Democracia en América Latina: Reconfiguraciones del Discurso y la Acción Política,” Revista de Estudios Sociales-RES, no. 51 (2015): 25-35.
“Alevis under Law: The Politics of Religious Freedom in Turkey.” Journal of Law and Religion 29, no. 3 (September/October 2014): 1-20.
“Editors’ Introduction.” with Winnifred Sullivan, Symposium: “Re-thinking Religious Freedom,” Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 29, no. 3. September/October 2014.
“Religious Freedom, American-style.” Quaderni di Diritto e Politica Ecclesiastica, no. 1 (June 2014): 231-242.
“The International Politics of Religious Freedom.” IIC Quarterly, Special issue on “Living with Religious Diversity,” Sonia Sikka and Lori G. Beaman, eds., 2014.
“International Politics after Secularism.” Review of International Studies. Special Issue, “The Postsecular in International Relations,” Dec. 2012. PDF
“Debates within a Single Church: Secularism and IR Theory.” Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, Special Issue on “Religion and IR Theory,” (June 2010): 135-48.
“Iran, in Search of a Nonsecular and Nontheocratic Politics” Public Culture 22, no.1 (Winter 2010): 25-32. PDF.
“What is Driving the European Debate about Turkey?” Insight Turkey 12, no.1 (2010): 185-203. Updated version of RIS, 2006. PDF
“Theorizing Religious Resurgence.” International Politics 44, no. 6 (Nov. 2007): 647-665. PDF“Political Islam and Foreign Policy in Europe and the United States.” Foreign Policy Analysis 3, no. 4 (October 2007): 345-367. PDF
“Negotiating Europe: The Politics of Religion and the Prospects for Turkish Accession to the EU.” Review of International Studies 32, no. 3 (July 2006): 401-418. PDF
“The Political Authority of Secularism in International Relations.” European Journal of International Relations 10, no. 2 (June 2004): 235-262. PDF
“The International Politics of Secularism: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 29, no. 2 (March-May 2004): 115-138. PDF
“Appropriating Islam: The Islamic other in the Consolidation of Western Modernity.” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 12, no.1 (Spring 2003): 25-41. PDF
Book chapters, reviews and other writing
“The Politics of Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy.” In David Dulio & Colton Campbell, eds., Congress and Religion: The Intersection of Faith and Politics. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming.
“Freeing Religion.” In Sharmin Sadequee, ed. Secularism, Race, and the Politics of Islamophobia. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, forthcoming 2025.
“Afterword: In the Eye of the Inquisitor: The Politics of Religious Asylum.” In Lena Rose and Ebru Öztürk, eds. Asylum and Conversion from Islam to Christianity in Europe: Interdisciplinary Approaches. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024: 189-197.
“Religión.” In Marta Íñiguez de Heredia, Ángela e Itziar Ruiz-Giménez, eds. Teorías Críticas de Relaciones Internacionales. Madrid: UAM, 2024 (in Spanish/en español).
“‘The Small Space of Religion’s Remainder': On the Precarities of the Secular.” Review of Joseph Blankholm’s The Secular Paradox: On the Religiosity of the Not Religious (New York University Press, 2022), Critical Research on Religion (2024).
Review: Righting the American Dream: How the Media Mainstreamed Reagan’s Evangelical Vision. By Diane Winston. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2023; pp. 258. Review: Journal of Religious History (February 2024).
“The Politics of International Religious Freedom.” In Jeffrey Haynes, ed., Routledge Handbook of Religion & Politics (3rd ed.) London & New York: Routledge, 2023: 139-154.
Sacred States: Beyond the Secular-Religious Dialectic (review of When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism, eds Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian, Cambridge University Press, 2021), Contending Modernities (Sept. 28, 2022).
Global Challenges of Secularism and Religious Freedom (with Ely Orrego Torres). Interview with Otros Cruces. (in Spanish here)
Review of Ussama Makdisi, Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019, in H-Diplo, 2021.
“Border Religion.” In At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion, eds. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2020.
“The America-Game.” In Theologies of American Exceptionalism, eds. Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2021.
“Islam in America: Review of America & Islam: Soundbites, Suicide Bombs and the Road to Donald Trump.” Cairo Review of Global Affairs 36 (Winter 2020): 120-124.
“Three Myths About Religion and Politics.” Canopy Forum: On the Interactions of Law & Religion (in 3 parts). Oct. 2-4, 2019.
“The Religion Trap.” Review of Tamir Moustafa, Constituting Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2018). The Immanent Frame. August 1, 2019.
“Narratives of De-secularization in International Relations.” In Narratives of Secularization, ed. Peter Harrison. New York: Routledge: 2018.
“Governing Religion as Right.” In Human Rights Futures, eds. Jack Snyder, Stephen Hopgood, and Leslie Vinjamuri. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, 189-212. PDF
“Muslims and Others: The Politics of Religion in the Refugee Crisis.” In The Refugee Crisis and Religion: Secularism, Security and Hospitality in Question, eds. Erin Wilson and Luca Mavelli. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016, 97-108.
“Making Up People.” Review of Benjamin L. Berger, Law’s Religion: Religious Difference and the Claims of Constitutionalism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. The Immanent Frame, July 14, 2016. http://bit.ly/29TTtWk
Review of Matthew Scherer, Beyond Church and State: Democracy, Secularism and Conversion. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Augustinian Studies Vol. 47, Issue 1 (2016): 114-118. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2795837
“Expert Religion: The Politics of Religious Difference in an Age of Freedom and Terror.” Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies Research Paper No. RSCAS 2015/97 (2015). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2707180.
“Believing in Religious Freedom,” in Politics of Religious Freedom, eds. Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Saba Mahmood, and Peter Danchin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, 45-56.
“Introduction,” with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Saba Mahmood, and Peter Danchin. In Politics of Religious Freedom, eds. Sullivan, Hurd, Mahmood, and Danchin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, 1-9.
“The International Politics of Religious Freedom.” In Living with Religious Diversity, eds. Sonia Sikka and Lori G. Beaman. New Delhi: Routledge India, 2015.
“The Religion Agenda: The Sahrawi Refugees and the Politics of Tolerance.” In Nations under God: The Geopolitics of Faith in the 21st Century, eds. Luke M. Herrington, Alasdair McKay, & Jeffrey Haynes. E-International Relations volume, 2015.
“Comparative Secularisms and the Politics of Modernity,” (with Linell E. Cady), in Religion and Politics: European and Global Perspectives, Yearbook of Global and European Studies, eds. Johann P. Arnason & Irenuesz Pawel Karolewski. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
“Rethinking Religious Freedom.” in Freedom of Religion or Belief in Foreign Policy: Which One? Pasquale Annicchino, ed. (Florence: European University Institute, 2014), pp. 26-31.
“Religious Freedom and the Crisis in Syria,” in On the Ground: New Directions in Middle East and North African Studies, edited by Brian T. Edwards, (Doha: Northwestern University in Qatar Symposium, 2014).
“Contested Secularisms in Turkey and Iran,” in Contesting Secularism: Comparative Perspectives, ed. Anders Berg-Sørensen. Ashgate (Religion & Society Series), 2013.
“Secularismos Comparados y Globalización” in El Fin de un Sueño Secular: Religión y Relationes Internationales en el Cambio de Siglo, eds. Mario Arriagada Cuadriello & Marta Tawil Kuri. Mexico City: El Colegio de México, 2013.
“Rescued by Law?: Secular Universalism, Human Rights and the Politics of Gender,” in Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference, Linell E. Cady and Tracy Fessenden, eds. Columbia, 2013.
“Emergent Patterns in Global Religious Governance.” ReligioWest Working Paper, Florence: European University Institute, 2011.
“The Politics of Secularism and Religion,” in An Introduction to International Relations, 2nd ed., edited by Richard Devetak, Anthony Burke, and Jim George. Cambridge, 2012.
“Comparative Secularisms and the Politics of Modernity: An Introduction,” (with Linell E. Cady) in Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age, eds. Cady & Hurd. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
“A Suspension of (Dis)belief: The Secular-Religious Binary and the Study of International Relations,” in Rethinking Secularism, eds. Craig Calhoun, Mark Juergensmeyer and Jonathan VanAntwerpen. Oxford, 2011.
“Secularism and International Relations Theory,” in Religion and International Relations Theory, ed. Jack Snyder. Columbia, 2011.
“The Politics of Secularism,” in Rethinking Religion and World Affairs, eds. Alfred Stepan, Monica Toft, and Timothy Shah. Oxford, 2012.
“Book Review: A Secular Age by Charles Taylor” Political Theory 36, no. 3 (June 2008): 486-491.
“Verso una Politica Postseculare: Secolarismo e Islamismo” (Toward a Postsecular Politics: Secularism and Political Islam.” In Stefano Salzani (ed.), Teologie politiche islamiche. Casi e frammenti contemporanei. (Genoa, Milan: Casa Editrice Marietti, 2005): 215-258.
“A Political Sociology of the Middle East.” Review of The Middle East in International Relations: Power, Politics and Ideology by Fred Halliday. The International Studies Review, 7, no. 3 (October 2005): 445-448.
“Political Islam Disarmed: Religion and Public Life in Modern Turkey.” Review of Islamic Political Identity in Turkey by M. Hakan Yavuz. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003). Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 14, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 237-243.
“Secularism and Democracy in the Middle East.” Working paper, Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, May 2003.