Diana Dukhanova is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Slavic Studies at Brown University and an adjunct professor of Russian at the College of the Holy Cross. She specializes in Russian religious…
Donovan Schaefer is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (Duke UP…
The support of many Republican presidential candidates demonstrates the success of a cottage industry based on the conspiracy theory that totalitarian Islamic radicals are bent on infiltrating America, displacing the Constitution, and subverting Western-style democracy in the U.S. and around the globe.