The old women cannot be relegated to the past or overcome. Their relationship to scholarship is asymmetrical: the old women’s…
Capabilities of old women
religion
Al-Juwayni, al-Ghazali, and Talal Asad on the religion of the old women of Nishapur
Several texts prompted the forum on the religion of the old women of Nishapur. To give readers the ability to…
The religion of the old women of Nishapur
As a hadith or as a trope, the expression “the religion of the old women” (dīn al-ʿajāʾiz) appears in many…
Crystal ball gazers, dream books, and the occult
In the face of ubiquitous inequalities and anti-Black violence, spiritual cultivation became paramount to African Americans’ emotional survival and stability…
The environmentalist’s dilemma
Many of us who set out to study the environmentalism of religious people in real, lived contexts have struggled with…
Experience between the secular and the divine: Conclusion
Why have religious philosophers and theologians been drawn to phenomenology in particular? The essays in this forum suggest several answers…
Is Europe (still) white?
But what does it mean to link Europe’s tarnished soul with an inquiry into the Christian nature of the continent,…
The ethics of gender selection
Womanist theological ethics can help us take into account the complex social considerations, especially religious commitments, that inform gender-selection decision…
Religious charity and the spirit of homo economicus
In this brief essay I connect Gates’s philosophy of giving—along with many other contemporary neoliberal philanthropists—to Protestant traditions and the…
Conversion and demographic anxieties
For readers interested in Islamic law and society, and especially for those who might not have thought that Malaysia is…