the headscarf is at the center of the debate because the debate is, in its essence, about gender relations. According to data from the World Values Survey (conducted between 1995-2001...
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Deepening the “zero-sum binary”
were manifold: syariah courts dealt with Muslim persons and the personal status of non-Muslim others connected to them, as the Article 121(1A) cases demonstrate, while Islamic banks theoretically could and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Prophetic blackness: The legendary tale of Alexander Bedward, “the flying preacher”
Bedward assumed leadership over the St. Andrew Baptist community in 1891. At this time he also embarked upon a healing ministry after discovering that the waters of the nearby Hope...
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
...Padilioni’s contribution recovers flight from the world toward new destinations: mystic flight, human flight, flights of fancy. Padilioni engages flight as a radical tradition of Blackness rooted in a commitment...
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).↩...