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About Kristian Petersen
Kristian Petersen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. You can find out more about his work on his website, follow him on Twitter @BabaKristian, or email him at kpeterse@odu.edu.
Kristian Petersen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. You can find out more about his work on his website, follow him on Twitter @BabaKristian, or email him at kpeterse@odu.edu.
NBN Episodes hosted by Kristian:
September 8, 2024
Religion Around Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday is one of the most iconic jazz performers of all time. Her voice is certainly unmistakable but for many her religious sensibilities may…
May 17, 2024
Shakespeare Through Islamic Worlds
Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds (Routledge, 2024) investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare’s canon. While many of Sh…
March 15, 2024
Perilous Intimacies
Friendship—particularly interreligious friendship—offers both promise and peril. After the end of Muslim political sovereignty in South Asia, how did …
February 18, 2024
The Praiseworthy One
In our most recent public memory, images of the Prophet Muhammad have caused a great deal of controversy, such as satirical cartoons of Muhammad in Fr…
February 2, 2024
The Dervishes of the North
The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207–1273) is a popular spiritual icon. His legacy is sustained within the mystical a…
June 30, 2023
The Brush of Insight
Over the course of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Mughal court painters evolved from illustrators of manuscripts and albums to active …
June 16, 2023
Wearing the Niqab
In recent years the niqab has emerged as one of the most ubiquitous symbols of everything that is perceived to be wrong with Islam: barbarity, backwar…
May 26, 2023
Broken
In Broken: The Failed Promise of Muslim Inclusion (NYU Press, 2022), Evelyn Alsultany, Professor at the University of Southern California, argues that…
May 19, 2023
We'll Play Till We Die
In We'll Play till We Die: Journeys across a Decade of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World (University of California Press, 2022), Mark LeVine, Pr…
February 24, 2023
Everyday Islamic Law and the Making of Modern South Asia
Beginning in the late eighteenth century, British rule transformed the relationship between law, society, and the state in South Asia. But professiona…
January 27, 2023
In and Out of This World
With In and Out of This World: Material and Extraterrestrial Bodies in the Nation of Islam (Duke University Press, 2022), Stephen C. Finley, Inaugural…
October 7, 2022
Hidden Histories of Pakistan
Censorship, Urdu literature, Islam, and progressive secular nationalisms in colonial India and Pakistan have a complex, intertwined history. Sarah Wah…
July 15, 2022
I Refuse to Condemn
In times of heightened national security, scholars and activists from the communities under suspicion often attempt to alert the public to the more co…
April 15, 2022
Owning the Secular
In Owning the Secular: Religious Symbols, Culture Wars, Western Fragility (Routledge, 2021), Matt Sheedy, Visiting Assistant Professor at the Universi…
March 25, 2022
Revolutionary Bodies
Gender and sexuality in modern Iran are frequently examined through the prisms of nationalist symbols and religious discourse. In Revolutionary Bodies…
February 28, 2022
Opposing the Imam
Islam's fourth caliph, Ali, can be considered one of the most revered figures in Islamic history. His nearly universal portrayal in Muslim literature …
December 3, 2021
Suspect Communities
Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) is a powerful reassessment of the U.S. go…
October 15, 2021
Elusive Lives
Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challengi…
October 8, 2021
Islam and the Devotional Object
In Islam and the Devotional Object: Seeing Religion in Egypt and Syria (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Richard J. A. McGregor, Associate Professor…
September 10, 2021
The Christian Encounter with Muhammad
Muhammad has not only been at the center of Muslims discussions of prophethood but he has also been the focus for many Christians as well. In The Chri…
August 13, 2021
Imagining Afghanistan
Over time and across different genres, Afghanistan has been presented to the world as potential ally, dangerous enemy, gendered space, and mysterious …
July 16, 2021
Islam Through Objects
Islam through Objects (Bloomsbury, 2021) represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. With contributions from scholars of r…
June 11, 2021
Islamophobia and the Novel
In an era of rampant Islamophobia, literary representations of Muslims and anti Muslim bigotry tell us a lot about changing concepts of cultural diffe…
May 28, 2021
Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria
In a global context of widespread fears over Islamic radicalization and militancy, poor Muslim youth, especially those socialized in religious seminar…