...group when asked to state their religion—answering “Christian” or “Muslim” to the question marked “religion” in a Pew Research Center survey, for instance—individuals within the society will differ widely in...
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The social body of belief
by David Morgan...place accessed as a moment aside, caught up in memory, ritual performance, and oratory. Such liminal moments occur at graveside, while visiting monuments, in concerts, perhaps in passing instants at...
Beyond moderate secularism
by Rajeev Bhargava...liberty. None could have managed to install such a regime without in the past attacking the power and privilege of their churches, a stridency which could not have been possible...
Time, gender-bending, and the medieval church
...of interesting challenges to such ecclesiastical pretensions. For instance, the timelessness of clerical vestments is here appropriated by the timely and eminently mutable world of fashion. There are also some...
modernity
by SherAli Tareen...of modernity, such as, for instance, in the effective use of print by evangelical and reformist movements in the global North and South. Approaching modernity as a narrative category, however,...
The “great sinner” myth
by Garry Wills...Augustine had no time for promiscuity, since he took up instantly, at age seventeen or eighteen, with his common-law wife “and lived with this one woman and kept faith with...
Sonic (re)turns
by Rosalind I. J. Hackett...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 gems”...
Peace from the ground up: An interview with Myla Leguro
by Nathan Schneider...what we do is nurturing “peace champions” in certain sectors. It was very hard at first to engage the military in the peace process in Mindanao, for instance. But we...
The commemorative state, human remains, and the question of missing-ness
...a lack or excess, instability, a condition and symptom of being missed and missing. R. Moosage, “Missing-ness, History and Apartheid-Era Disappearances: The Figuring of Siphiwo Mthimkulu, Tobekile ‘Topsy’ Madaka and...
Testimonial aesthetics and public display
by Sally M. Promey...the mechanisms of display instantiated by these are instrumental to this American religious and commercial calculus. Space, in this context, is never just about real estate or cartographic location but...