Does Adam and Eve’s disobedience indelibly inscribe this freedom, and freedom as such, into our habits of thought—for what disobedience could be more foundational than disobeying God?
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The Dawn of Everything
The dawn of everything good?
July 14, 2022
The authors’ message is a hopeful one: that humans aren’t predetermined by our ecological conditions or by teleological or evolutionary sequences where one thing follows inexorably from the last, but rather that…
July 14, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
Back to basics, or how to tell a new origin story
July 7, 2022
The implications of Dawn for the study of religion are vast. We could consider the evidence that Graeber and Wengrow marshal, but I want to think more precisely about Dawn’s form—what it…
July 7, 2022
The Dawn of Everything
A prolegomenon to some future history
July 7, 2022
[I]t was pretty obvious that in this first piece of writing, we’d get about as far as trying to jettison some very outmoded ways of thinking about human history, inherited largely unthinkingly…
July 7, 2022
The religion of the old women of Nishapur
Sensing without realizing
June 15, 2022
What is at stake is not to understand the meaning of the expression “the religion of the old women of Nishapur.” Instead, the task is to listen to the transformations that engaging…
June 15, 2022
The religion of the old women of Nishapur
Belief and (mal)practice: Dueling images of old women’s religiosity
June 8, 2022
That the “religion of old women” is often cited positively in discussions of disembodied faith, while marginalized in analyses of bodily ritual, reflects a bifurcation of ideological “belief” and corporeal “practice”—and the…
June 8, 2022
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