...Penal Code provide the affective infrastructure for global religion in the twenty-first century. In Pakistan, for instance, contemporary debates around blasphemy are produced via the Code, to which new sections...
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The politics of religious freedom
Traditional, African, religious, freedom?
by Rosalind I. J. Hackett...to reform the laws of African customary marriage. They see this as ongoing evidence of the way that indigenous African religions are being treated as “incidents of African culture,” and...
January 7, 2013
Sharia Compliant
Islamic law as “code”: Language, system, power
April 24, 2018
...in Islamic jurisprudential traditions. Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is a technology, and the fuqaha (jurisprudents) are programmers, making the law “code” in more senses than one. If the code is a...
April 24, 2018
Deathless questions and other interviews
More than politics: An interview with Charles Villa-Vicencio
by Nathan Schneider...after true humanity. NS: Is there something about South African spirituality that is distinct from other forms emerging in other places? CVV: To begin with, the African worldview—for lack of...
November 19, 2010
The headscarf controversy
The headscarf controversy
by Binnaz Toprak...At the root of both the republican and Islamist projects lies the status of women in society. In order to achieve the republican aim of being a part of what...
April 16, 2008
Unveiling the end times: Neoliberalism and apocalypse
The longue durée of apocalypse
March 17, 2021
...et al.—in revolting against London’s rule in 1776. African (and indigenous) resisters were prescient, for the newly born republic quickly replaced London as the captain of the African Slave Trade,...
March 17, 2021
A Universe of Terms
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by Vaughn A. Booker...in African American religious history. His early career shed light on the formidable presence of comedy lampooning African American religious life byAfrican American men and women familiar with the subject...
December 20, 2019
Essays
Farrakhan, Qaddafi, and the definition of American Islam
by Edward E. Curtis, IV...been criticized on various African and African American blogs, another aspect of the story that the Times missed. Such criticism is an effort to convince other African Americans to reject...
April 15, 2011
Spirit in the Dark
Spirit in the Dark—An introduction
June 28, 2017
...how to think (historically) about the play between sacred and secular in the context of African American life remained the meta-question behind the literary history of African American religion that...
June 28, 2017
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
Death, definitions, and ontological design
May 6, 2022
...altering one’s existence raises significant theoretical questions around the writing of African American history. Not only had slavery resulted in the physical capture and domination of African people in America,...
May 6, 2022