Saba Mahmood, “Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report” (Princeton UP, 2015)

It is commonly thought that violence, injustice, and discrimination against religious minorities, especially in the Middle East, are a product of religious fundamentalism and myopia. Concomitantly, it is often argued, that more of secularism and less of religion represents the solution to this problem. In her stunning new book Religious...