What if God is not Father but Mother, or both? What if God is not even a parental figure at all? If it is the case, as one account of...
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The Universal Enemy
Irredeemable enemies
June 24, 2020
Representation of the non-Western Islamist fighter has long had to deal with the Eurocentric and asymmetrical nature of international relations. As political challengers to political orders driven by the global...
June 24, 2020
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
February 19, 2020
“It has been an astonishing decade. Everything and nothing has changed,” Michelle Alexander wrote on the tenth anniversary of her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age...
February 19, 2020
In the Shadow of World Literature
Criticism and catastrophe
August 15, 2017
Rather than a cosmopolitan space where all national literary traditions can finally cohabitate on an equal footing, world literature is instead, Michael Allan argues, a “global discipline,” in both senses...
August 15, 2017
Is this all there is
Testimonial aesthetics and public display
by Sally M. PromeyChrist of the Ozarks, Arkansas, 2015. Photo: Breanne Robertson The Christian cross is the ideal logo. The form is easily constructed, quickly assembled from readily available, generally mundane natural or...
February 8, 2018
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
Beyond democracy’s imaginary investments
February 19, 2020
As another cycle of collective protest reverberates across the globe, crowds have taken to the streets and public squares of cities from Santiago to Beirut, from Hong Kong to Baghdad,...
February 19, 2020
Practices of relation
Practices of relation: Goh and Kaell
June 26, 2020
...of communal languages (Malayalee, Punjabi, Tamil, etc.) in the liturgy. It was as if the praxis of the communal tongue (in the singing of songs of worship, prayer, testimonies) recalled...
June 26, 2020
Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
A Christian covenant in concrete
May 7, 2019
The parking lot at Lusaka’s Embassy Park has a lot to recommend it: easy access via Independence Avenue, ample space, some well-placed shade trees, and close proximity to government offices....
May 7, 2019
In the Shadow of World Literature
For the love of literature—A critique
September 5, 2017
You must unlearn what you have learned. —Yoda No intervention in literature studies could be more urgent than the one offered in Michael Allan’s In the Shadow of World Literature....
September 5, 2017
Crossing and conversion
Inheritance and belief
July 3, 2018
In the last decade, scholarship on conversion has come a long way. Rather than relying on the protestant ideal of conversion, where the individual follows a change of heart, contributors...
July 3, 2018