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Inborn faith or knowledge: Mothers and the old women of Nishapur
It is unclear what the content of the faith of the old women/the mother is. This faith does not seem to exist on its own. It is not a normative or prescribed…
The possibilities of a Black religious multiverse
Deciphering and traveling the multiverse with Black religious people invites observers to retheorize Blackness beyond culture, color, and history—allowing the multiverse to appear as a cosmos that stretches the bounds of the…
Do old women know medicine?
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…
Finding the metaphysicians in Black metaphysical religion, ft. Azealia Banks
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.
Knowledge and encompassment: The old women of Timbuktu
[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:…












