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The Flight of the Intellectuals
by Jessica PolebaumIn his recently published The Flight of the Intellectuals (Melville House Publishing, 2010), Paul Berman, writer in residence at New York University, sets out, via a reading of the thought...
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
...world toward new destinations: mystic flight, human flight, flights of fancy. Padilioni engages flight as a radical tradition of Blackness rooted in a commitment to community, comprised of histories that...
Prophetic blackness: The legendary tale of Alexander Bedward, “the flying preacher”
...tree, and his followers awaited his ascension. But when morning bled into afternoon with no flight, the crowd grew anxious. As evening’s twilight faded into nightfall, Bedward climbed down from...
What’s more? or, An answer to the question “Is this all there is?”
by Mark Cauchi...we experience and so think the latter. Image credit: Anish Kapoor, Mother as a Void, 1988. Fibreglass and pigment. 205 x 205 x 230 cm. ©Anish Kapoor, 2017. Used by...
Contents and discontents of (post)modernity
by Brad S. Gregory...with morality and politics in an image that neatly suggests the book’s genealogical method. Maritain plays very little role in the book or its inspiration; I cite only his essay...
We the People of the Book
...Sergius instructs Muhammad to kiss and caress the book. A cow carries the book. Kaʽb al-Aḥbār steals the book. A governor burns the book. Likewise, the college students steal, mishandle,...
Testimonial aesthetics and public display
by Sally M. Promey...these crosses believe that sight alone can induce conversion. Billboard in New Haven, Connecticut, 2016; Mount Soledad, La Jolla, California, March 2015; Christ is Coming, Mohave Desert, California, June 2017...
Reflections on summer reading
by Courtney Bender, James S. Bielo, Anderson Blanton, John D. Boy, Wendy Cadge, Simon During, Omri Elisha, M. Christian Green, Martin Kavka, Tanya Marie Luhrmann, John Schmalzbauer and Jeff Sharlet...forthcoming book from Matthew Engelke, God’s Agents: Biblical Publicity in Contemporary England (University of California, 2013), an ethnography of cultural production among the British Bible Society. Engelke’s work will distinguish...
Solitary confinement and the Nation of Islam
...in this essay come from the following collections: California State Archives: Department of Corrections-Administration-Assistant Director, Investigation Files-Muslim Correspondence, 1961-1968 and California State Archives: Department of Corrections-Director’s Subject Files, Institutions-Adjustment Centers Files....