- Volume 68, #2//April, 2026
The April 2026 issue of Comparative Studies in Society and History journal.
Matter of Faith: Religion and Materiality
Performative Sovereignty: a conversation with Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor about pyropolitics, animal sacrifice, and cosmic alignments across Indian and Ottoman polities
Volume 68, Issue 2
Volume 68, #2//April, 2026
Spring 2026
More Ottoman Heuristics – A Seventh Take on the Semicivilized
Doing Things With Words
Ottoman Heuristics: Six takes on “the semicivilized”
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Spring 2026
CSSH highlights new books by Samuel Sami Everett and Chihab El Khachab and congratulates award-winning work by Alyssa Peredes.
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More Ottoman Heuristics – A Seventh Take on the Semicivilized
Julia Elyachar responds to six CSSH authors’ engagements with “the semicivilized.”
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Doing Things With Words
A collection of CSSH essays on language, power, identity, and authority.
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Ottoman Heuristics: Six takes on “the semicivilized”
Koh Choon Hwee, Nora Barakat, Leyla Amzi-Erdogdular, Mustafa Tuna, Fahad Bishara, and Anoush Suni consider Julia Elyachar’s concept of “the semicivilized.”
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The Church Militant and Illiberal: Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska discuss transnational Catholic movements
Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez, Sofía Rodríguez-López, Piotr H. Kosicki, and Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska discuss the alignments and distinctions in their essays on Catholic social movements.
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Between Discipline and Wonder: On Writing the Unseen into Islamic History
Arthur S. Zárate contemplates the role of wonder in writing history.
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In Memoriam: Vicente Rafael
CSSH mourns the loss of Vicente Rafael.
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Essays for All Seasons: 2025
CSSH recognizes the most downloaded articles of 2025.
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Winter 2025
CSSH celebrates new books by Filipe Calvão, Elizabeth Ferry, and Leslie James.
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Volume 68, #1//January, 2026
Articles in this issue are grouped under the rubrics: The Social Lives of Martyrs; Spirit Movements; Counterrevolutionary Knowledge; and Archives of Bereavement.
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