...the sexuality of nuns, priests, and monks. Take, for instance, a series of dresses and headpieces that pay homage to the nun’s habit. These items cast the nun as an...
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Essays ![]()
by Anver Emon
Is ISIS Islamic? Why it matters for the study of Islam
...is Wood’s principal argument. ISIS’s own leadership would probably make this argument. In its decree on the Christians of Raqqa, for instance, ISIS invoked pre-modern rules on the dhimmi (non-Muslim...
Theologies of American exceptionalism ![]()
by Shaul Magid and Stephanie Frank
Theologies of American exceptionalism: Cohen and Kahn
...Hurd and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan. Read the introduction to the series here. This is the fifth and final installment in this series of paired essays. In this final post, Shaul...
A Universe of Terms ![]()
by Olivia Whitener
spirit
...obvious here, hence the importance of a project such as this, “A Universe of Terms.” Yet even within the rubrics of an installation that revisits Mark C. Taylor’s 1998 edited...
Is this all there is ![]()
by Rosalind I. J. Hackett
Sonic (re)turns
...British sound and environmental installation artist Mileece turns the sounds of plants into music, gaining international acclaim for her aesthetic sonification and “promoting ecology through technology and the arts.” “Aural...
A Secular Age ![]()
by Matthew Noah Smith
Disenchantment and the mind-dependence of the moral
...demands on human beings as actors—for instance, we ought to pursue the good, we ought to avoid the bad, and so on—but science describes no such free-standing “oughts.” This view...
For Love of the Prophet 
by Noah Salomon
For Love of the Prophet—A reply
by Noah Salomon
...lacking self-evidence or stability . . . .” Indeed, For Love of the Prophet seeks a double instability in precisely this way, of both the Islamic state and of “us.”...
Religious Difference in a Secular Age ![]()
by Anupama Rao
Competing inequalities
...of the double bind of minority religion. Think not only of the Bahá’í who are forbidden to note their religion on identity cards, but also about instances of religious intermarriage,...