Tortured Readings
Jews, Muslims, and the Violence of Secular Scriptural Hermeneutics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19224401 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexandra Zirkle (0009-0006-5563-7027, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2026-06-14 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1462317x.2026.2678021 |
| OpenAlex | W7164864637 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 70 |
Christianity · Hermeneutics · Political theology · Politics · Secularism · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Religion, Theology, History, Judaism, Christianity
Race
Secular, Superior and, Desperately Searching for Its Soul
Sharīʿa
Exclusionary Violence
Feminist Edges of the Qur’an
The Qur'an in Comparison, and the Birth of ‘scriptures’
Between Hermeneutic Provenance and Textuality
Reforesting« Jews
Investigating the Secular Body
“Remembering Semitism” or “On the Prospect of Re-Membering the Semites”
Introduction
Disciplining the ‘Muslim Subject’
Secularism in Question
With Stones in Our Hands
Semites
Religious Difference in a Secular Age
Genealogies of Religion
Formations of the Secular
Chastening Germany
An Ambivalent Turn
The dangerous discourse of the ‘Judaeo-Christian’ myth
Islamophobia and the Europeanness of the other Europe
The Specter of “Godless Jewry”
The Anthropology of Islam in Europe
Notes on the Judeo-Christian Tradition in America
Between anti‐Semitism and Islamophobia
Sugar Island Jews? Jewish Colonialism and the Rhetoric of "Civic Improvement" in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Donald Trump, “Judeo-Christian Values,” and the “Clash of Civilizations
The Seduction of Law
The Specter of Marcion
Islamophobia, "Clash of Civilizations", and Forging a Post-Cold War Order
Impossible Assimilations, American Liberalism, and Jewish Difference
The Violence of the Hyphen in Judeo-Christian
Times of History
Do Muslim Women Need Saving
The Invention of World Religions
Secularism, Hermeneutics, and Empire
Introduction
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia - new enemies, old patterns
Islamophobia and the making of Latinos/as into terrorist threats
Are we all secular/ized yet
Racialization and religion
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