What were old women presumed to know about medicine, and why was it always old women? Alongside the trope of ignorant quacks, older women’s expertise emerged as a trope in the genre…
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Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
Finding the metaphysicians in Black metaphysical religion, ft. Azealia Banks
May 13, 2022
With the fervor of the converted, Banks has promoted Afro-Caribbean religions—including lesser-known ones, like the Dominican 21 Divisions—by educating African Americans about their origins, rituals, and cosmologies.
May 13, 2022
The religion of the old women of Nishapur
Knowledge and encompassment: The old women of Timbuktu
May 11, 2022
[The old women of Nishapur] constitute a “muted category” who are not necessarily silent in and of themselves; the old women of Nishapur clash rather noticeably with other common tropes about old women:…
May 11, 2022
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
Death, definitions, and ontological design
May 6, 2022
What roles do naming and self-definition play in the liberation or oppression of a people? One might argue that words give shape and form to the relationships between objects in our lives.…
May 6, 2022
The religion of the old women of Nishapur
Capabilities of old women
May 4, 2022
The old women cannot be relegated to the past or overcome. Their relationship to scholarship is asymmetrical: the old women’s certainty propels scholarship but is indifferent to it. The old women’s knowledge…
May 4, 2022
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
Healing hands in Black religion
April 29, 2022
Rev. Fannie Elizabeth Burgin Harris. She was a healer. She was a pastor, and while not ordained by any denomination, she certainly was no less in tune with the infinite as she…
April 29, 2022
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