Most Muslim-majority countries have legal systems that are meant to embed religion in state law. In many cases, the broad outlines of these legal frameworks are an enduring legacy of colonialism.
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Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
Pentecostal sounds and silences in Rwanda
June 4, 2019
Sound is key to how religion is made public. Yet sound, to my mind, must equally be understood through its relationship to silence—not only by contrasting Pentecostal “noise” to other forms of…
June 4, 2019
Divine motherhood
Divine!
June 3, 2019
I am interested in mothers that are fathers, fathers that are mothers, and other forms of queer gestation and parenting.
June 3, 2019
Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
The elegy for good days: Encounters with Urdu poetry in Delhi
May 29, 2019
How do we understand the Islamicness of Urdu poetry and also the spread of Urdu poetry far beyond the bounds of exclusively Muslim identity?
May 29, 2019
Divine motherhood
Allah, hidden treasures, and the Divine Feminine
May 27, 2019
The idea of God the father is simply not part of the dominant Muslim imaginary. Instead Muslim theology speaks of ungendered multitudinous divine attributes as a way for humanity to relate to…
May 27, 2019
Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
Sonic privilege: The holism of religious publics
May 21, 2019
Is there a particular link between the sonic and the holistic nature of public religious performances that exceeds what can be seen, heard, smelled, and tasted?
May 21, 2019
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