Does attributing motherhood to divinity do anything to undermine patriarchy? The answer, at least from where I sit, is no.
Thealogy or pathology? Reflections from South India
religion
Rethinking public religion: Word, image, sound
This forum explores a set of interlocking questions concerning how we approach the study of public religion. How and when,…
Religion and hate speech
Many recent hate speech cases involve religion either as the source of views that are alleged to be hateful or…
Africa and free/hate speech
In the era of post-truth, alternative facts, and fake news, hate, hateful, inflammatory, and dangerous speech pervade the African continent…
A conversation with Yuri Slezkine
As the final installment of the Fall 2018 book forum on The House of Government, forum co-curators Sonja Luehrmann and…
Religion or ideology?
While I cannot nearly do justice here to Slezkine’s ambitious undertaking, I briefly touch upon two points to suggest why…
Knot of the Soul: Voices, textures, resonances
More than any other book I have read recently, Stefania Pandolfo’s Knot of the Soul made me ask myself time…
Not in the body
Does circumcision mark religious belonging onto a male body? And if so, is this marking legitimate, especially in the case…
Crossing and conversion: Introduction
This forum draws on a range of historical and contemporary case studies to show that conversions rarely converge on the…
Agnostic front of the aging boomer
Remember when it rained frogs? Unless you were in Egypt during the second plague, the way you would likely remember…