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Religion in Fortress Europe: Perspectives on Belief, Citizenship, and Identity in a Time of Polarized Politics (2023)
Book
Hashemi, M., & Cotter, C. R. (Eds.). (2023). Religion in Fortress Europe: Perspectives on Belief, Citizenship, and Identity in a Time of Polarized Politics. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350341135

How does religion maintain or challenge discourses on national identity? What are the roles that religion plays on all sides – from Islamophobia of the radical right to the Christian alliances on both sides of the Atlantic, to the Islamic beliefs and... Read More about Religion in Fortress Europe: Perspectives on Belief, Citizenship, and Identity in a Time of Polarized Politics.

Could we use blood donation campaigns as social policy tools?: British Shi’i ritual of giving blood (2020)
Journal Article
Hashemi, M. (2022). Could we use blood donation campaigns as social policy tools?: British Shi’i ritual of giving blood. Identities, 29(6), 846-862. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2020.1856538

This article examines the role of the third sector and civil society in addressing the inadequacies of state policies on migration in Europe. It centres on the Imam Hussain Blood Donation Campaign (IHBDC), a faith-based, third sector organisation whi... Read More about Could we use blood donation campaigns as social policy tools?: British Shi’i ritual of giving blood.

Andrew’s white cross, Hussain’s red blood: Being Scottish Shia in Brexit’s no-man’s-land (2020)
Journal Article
Hashemi, M. (2020). Andrew’s white cross, Hussain’s red blood: Being Scottish Shia in Brexit’s no-man’s-land. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 10(2), 351-355. https://doi.org/10.1086/709781

Brexit was a project shaped at the fringes of official politics. Unusually, however, it maintained its fringe-like qualities, including its lack of clarity and ambivalence, even as it took centre stage in the political affairs of the country for more... Read More about Andrew’s white cross, Hussain’s red blood: Being Scottish Shia in Brexit’s no-man’s-land.

Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion (2020)
Journal Article
Reader, J., Jandrić, P., Peters, M. A., Barnett, R., Garbowski, M., Lipińska, V., …Baker, C. (2021). Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion. Postdigital Science and Education, 3, 934–965. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-020-00133-4

This collectively written article explores postdigital relationships between science, philosophy, and religion within the continuum of enchantment, disenchantment, and re-enchantment. Contributions are broadly classified within four sections related... Read More about Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion.

Bedouins of Silicon Valley: A neo-Khaldunian approach to sociology of technology (2019)
Journal Article
Hashemi, M. (2019). Bedouins of Silicon Valley: A neo-Khaldunian approach to sociology of technology. Sociological Review, 67(3), 536-551. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118822823

The standard narrative of the emergence, rise and decline of Silicon Valley companies focuses on the evolution of institutions and technological waves, not the mentality of the innovators and entrepreneurs. This article argues that this type of expla... Read More about Bedouins of Silicon Valley: A neo-Khaldunian approach to sociology of technology.

A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge (2018)
Book Chapter
Hashemi, M., & Bagherpour, A. R. (2018). A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge. In M. Stenmark, S. Fuller, & U. Zackariasson (Eds.), Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society (71-83). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96559-8_5

Abdolkarim Soroush is a prominent figure in the religious intellectualism movement in post-revolutionary Iran. In 1991, he published a controversial book, The Theoretical Contraction and Expansion of the Sacred Law, on the social evolution of religio... Read More about A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge.

What Does It Mean To Be a Progressive Intellectual after the Refugee Crisis in Europe? A Dialogue with Tariq Ramadan (2018)
Book Chapter
Hashemi, M. (2018). What Does It Mean To Be a Progressive Intellectual after the Refugee Crisis in Europe? A Dialogue with Tariq Ramadan. In U. Schmiedel, & G. Smith (Eds.), Religion in the European Refugee Crisis (281-296). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67961-7_15

This chapter examines the idea of progressivism in the context of the current refugee crisis in Europe. By investigating a variety of the progressive frameworks for the inclusion and the integration of Muslim minorities into European society, Morteza... Read More about What Does It Mean To Be a Progressive Intellectual after the Refugee Crisis in Europe? A Dialogue with Tariq Ramadan.