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by Samera Esmeir
Equality time
renounces difference, while allowing inequality to “continue to permeate social life.” Such is the constitutive contradiction of political secularism, including the minority status that Mahmood recovers. The minority status is...
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by Jessica Polebaum
The Flight of the Intellectuals
In 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...
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by Laura Duane
Pakistan on the flight path of American power
Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology. When: Thursday, September 18, 5-7 p.m. Where: Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Hall, 530 West 120th Street, New York, NY Cosponsored by the Institute...
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by Justin Neuman
Ubuntu, reconciliation, and the buffered self
...commonly expressed by invoking a Zulu maxim in which its cognates predominate: “umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu,” or, to use the proverb of Tutu’s Xhosa heritage, “ubuntu ungamntu ngabanye abantu,” (“a person...
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by Anupama Rao
Competing inequalities
non-Hindu minority: his demand for separate representation emphasized their liminal status as victims of negative forms of sociality. Here minority status simultaneously begged the question of religious identity. Was it...
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
Prophetic blackness: The legendary tale of Alexander Bedward, “the flying preacher”
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
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by Benjamin Hertzberg
Mere Civility and Jeremiah Wright
Ashgate, 2001), xvii. ↩ Rosicrucian Digest 10, no. 9 (October 1932).↩ See Matthew M. Harris, “Black Religion Under the Sign of Saturn” (PhD dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara, forthcoming).↩...