For readers interested in Islamic law and society, and especially for those who might not have thought that Malaysia is in the company of Iran and Saudi Arabia in terms of the…
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Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
New vistas in studying religion and public life
July 2, 2019
Taking a relatively “thin” understanding of public religion that challenges—rather than transports—the term’s typical liberal and normative baggage, the essays assembled here alert us to various intriguing modalities of the religion-public nexus.
July 2, 2019
Divine motherhood
Beyond “Mother Goddess and God the Father”
July 1, 2019
To ponder divine motherhood is not as natural and comfortable a task for an ecofeminist scholar as one might imagine. For me, it is actually quite a difficult task that requires addressing…
July 1, 2019
Constituting Religion
Constituting religion: From South Asia to Malaysia
June 27, 2019
At the start of his outstanding new book, Constituting Religion, Tamir Moustafa explains that initially his ambition extended beyond Malaysia to a comparison of Malaysia, Pakistan, and Egypt. As one with an…
June 27, 2019
Divine motherhood
Mothers of the disappeared in Lebanon
June 24, 2019
The mothers, through their politics of presence . . . become mediators between the state and the absentee, negotiating the very meaning of state and citizenship in Lebanon.
June 24, 2019
Constituting Religion
Mansplaining religion
June 21, 2019
While the hot cases [in Malaysia] differ in their details from those in the United States, the structure of the story is familiar. A clash between communalist and individualist versions of religious…
June 21, 2019
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