John R. Bowen

John R. Bowen, Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, is author of Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves and Can Islam Be French?  His most recent book is Blaming Islam.

What Does Europe Have Against Halal?

Food is becoming a target for anti-Islam politics.

  • John R. Bowen

Under Western Eyes

Islamophobia is a shared project of the Democrat and Republican parties, long preceding the rise of white nationalism and Trump.

  • John R. Bowen
  • Aziz Rana

Response to France After Charlie Hebdo – Bowen Reply

Three-quarters of French people consider Islam incompatible with Western values.

  • John R. Bowen

France after Charlie Hebdo

France’s own political traditions can accommodate visible Islam and heal social divisions.

  • John R. Bowen
with responses from
  • Didier Fassin
  • Arthur Goldhammer
  • Haroon Moghul
  • Joan Wallach Scott
  • Joseph Massad
  • Mayanthi L. Fernando
  • Michèle Lamont & Nicolas Duvoux
  • David D. Laitin
  • Maleiha Malik

Islam in America

Video of an Ideas Matter event held at MIT on May 15, 2012

  • John R. Bowen
  • Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Christopher Lydon

Blaming Islam

A Boston Review Book

  • John R. Bowen

Europeans Against Multiculturalism

Political Attacks Misread History, Target Muslims, and May Win Votes

  • John R. Bowen

Nothing To Fear

Misreading Muslim immigration in Europe.

  • John R. Bowen

Private Arrangements

“Recognizing sharia” in England

  • John R. Bowen

France’s Revolt

Can the Republic live up to its ideals?

  • John R. Bowen

Muslims and Citizens

France’s headscarf controversy.

  • John R. Bowen
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