Does attributing motherhood to divinity do anything to undermine patriarchy? The answer, at least from where I sit, is no.
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Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
Le mal des fleurs
May 16, 2019
Surely one reason for the ongoing but mistakenly benign and otherworldly cliché of India as a land of “spirituality” is the sheer proliferation of religious images, sounds, and smells in its public…
May 16, 2019
Divine motherhood
Motherhood on the hinge
May 13, 2019
By the time I encountered Marie de l’Incarnation and the gripping story of her decision to abandon her eleven-year-old son Claude for religious life, I was already a mother to three boys…
May 13, 2019
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Religion and Social Justice Movements in Transatlantic Perspective
by The EditorsFriday, May 17, 2019, 10 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Religion and Social Justice Movements in Transatlantic Perspective is a full-day event focused on religious responses to exclusionary populisms, including racial and religious exclusions, anti-immigrant movements, and responses to the global refugee crisis more broadly.
May 9, 2019
Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
A Christian covenant in concrete
May 7, 2019
Memorials are frequent sites of revisionist history, and we could easily say that Sata’s mausoleum is meant to cover up the more unsavory parts of his persona, just as the monument to…
May 7, 2019
Divine motherhood
Must a female God mother?
May 6, 2019
As we seek to reimagine God, I am not sure that the corrective to the damage that has been done by the understanding of God as Father is to replace that with…
May 6, 2019
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