Jennifer S. Bryson
Interrogation
"Secret Tentative Intimation":
An interrogator's reflections on the formation of conscience. What if you suddenly found out you were going to be an interrogator at Guantanamo?
Support Interrogation, Reject Torture,"
The Public Discourse, Sep 9, 2011
Terrorism and Other Troubles
Terrorism Triangle in Boston, Public Discourse, Apr 23, 2012
Need for “Sufficiently Profound Responses” to Religion-Related Violence, Apr 28, 2015
Countering Violent Extremism Needs Local Focus, Oct 23, 2014
The Daesh Caliphake and Why They Resemble Marxist-Leninists, Sep 30, 2014
"ISIS" Bans Art and Literature, We Should Promote These, Sep 16, 2014
America’s Torture Treaty, Dec 12, 2014
Interrogators Against Torture, Oct 25, 2014
Pornography and National Security, Public Discourse, Aug 12, 2011
How to Stop the Next Detroit Bomber, Public Discourse, Jan 05, 2010
How Jihadist Education Breeds Violence, Public Discourse, Mar 26, 2010
Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Anti-Semitism Among Islamists in Germany, translated by Jennifer S. Bryson, 2019 report by the German government
Should the German Government Regulate Language of Religious Rites? Aug 10, 2016
Handshakes, Islam, and Religious Tolerance in the West, Public Discourse, Jun 20, 2016
Germany Trying to Squeeze Round Mosques into Square Church Structures, May 12, 2016
Austria's Troubling Quran Law, Public Discourse, Nov 4, 2014
Will Islam in Germany lead to Mufti Merkel?, Public Discourse, Dec 12, 2008
Study in the GDR, Die Unterrichts Praxis, 1989 (Jennifer also discusses her time in the GDR in this video of her presentation "Conversion from Studying Marxism in East Germany into the Catholic Church,"starting at 00:31:17.)
FILM REVIEWS
Monks in Algeria: loving thy neighbor at gunpoint, Contending Modernities, Mar 1, 2011. Review of the film Of Gods and Men
Four Lions: The Absurdity of Terror,
Public Discourse, Oct 11, 2010. Review of the film Four Lions
NOVELS AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
What Fiction Can Tell Us about Afghanistan,
The Public Discourse, April 12, 2013
The Moral Impossibility of Ignoring Fanatics
The Public Discourse, Sep 1, 2010
Arc of the Universe, Dec 3, 2014
What Fiction Can Tell Us about Afghanistan
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Confronting Political Islam: Six Lessons from the West’s Past, by John M. Owen IV. (Princeton University Press, 2015) in The Review of Faith and International Affairs, December 2015, pp. 95-96.
Review of God's Century: Resurgent Religion and Global Politics by M. Toft, D. Philpott, and T. Shah in Marine Corps University Journal, Spring 2012, pp. 119-121
Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedom Worldwide by Paul Marshall and Nina Shea in The Review of Faith and International Affairs, 2013.
Review of Arab Society in Revolt: The West’s Mediterranean Challenge. Peace & Stability Operations Journal Online, January 2013, Issue 3, Volume 2, pp. 27-28.
Foreign Policy, Religious Freedom, and Public Diplomacy
Why Americans Should Care about the Uyghurs , The Public Discourse, Sep 5, 2018.
Egypt's anti-atheism law would be an anti-honesty law, Arc of the Universe, Jan 6, 2018
Religious Freedom Includes Right to Say “You Are Wrong,” the case of Salem Abdel Gelil in Egypt, Arc of the Universe, May 11, 2017
Holy Mary in a Bikini? #BurkiniBan, Arc of the Universe, Aug 16, 2016
Does Islamic Theology Matter When Conflict Is (Mostly) Political?, Jul 17, 2015
State Department Discovers Religion, 2015 QDDR, Apr 29, 2015
"ISIS" Bans Art and Literature, We Should Promote These, Sep 16, 2014
Allow nuns as U.S. military chaplains, Washington Post On Faith, Apr 8, 2013
Promote Democracy: Start at Home but Don't Stop at Home, The Public Discourse, Aug 29, 2011
Don’t Forget Religious Freedom, The Public Discourse, Nov 17, 2009
Hillary Clinton, Public Diplomacy, and the Middle East, The Public Discourse, Jan 20, 2009
Encyclopedia Entries by Jennifer Bryson
In Religious Violence Today: Faith and Conflict in the Modern World, Volume One, ed. Michael Jerryson. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2020. Links to these articles are at Jennifer's Academia.edu profile.
Introduction: Islam and Violence (with Ismail Royer),
Ahmadiyya, Persecution of
Al-Shabaab
Assam Bodo-Muslim Conflict
Boko Haram (with Mazhun Idris)
Boston Marathon Bombing (2013) (with Tania Marie Ghazar)
Charlie Hebdo Attack (2015)
“The Clash of Civilizations?” (Huntington, 1993)
Gender and Sexual Orientation (Islam)
ISIS (Islamic State)
Jihad
Kashmir and Global Jihad
Maute Group (Islamic State of Lanao)
9/11 and al-Qaeda
Salafism
Takfir
Taliban
Wahhabism
In War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict, eds. Timothy J. Demy and Jeffrey M. Shaw. ABC-CLIO 2017:
Peace in the Quran
Terrorism and Religion
Articles, academic journals
“U.S. Engagement of Foreign Audiences: Post 9/11 Mistakes and Today’s New Opportunities,” The Muslim World, July 2011, pp. 390-393.
“Toward a Muslim Marketplace of Ideas,” The Review of Faith and International Affairs, vol. 9, no. 2, Summer 2011 issue on Islam and Religious Freedom, pp. 1-2.
© 2023 by Jennifer S. Bryson.