The implications of Dawn for the study of religion are vast. We could consider the evidence that Graeber and Wengrow…
Back to basics, or how to tell a new origin story
Year: 2022
A prolegomenon to some future history
[I]t was pretty obvious that in this first piece of writing, we’d get about as far as trying to jettison…
Sensing without realizing
What is at stake is not to understand the meaning of the expression “the religion of the old women of…
Belief and (mal)practice: Dueling images of old women’s religiosity
That the “religion of old women” is often cited positively in discussions of disembodied faith, while marginalized in analyses of…
Old women: Transcendence of gender hierarchy, visibility, and authority
Without reflecting on the intersection of aging and gender, we cannot advance our conceptualization of the construction of gender relations…
Call for Applications | SSRC Religion and the Public Sphere Program Officer
The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) seeks a Program Officer to support the ongoing development and implementation of a digital platform on religion in…
Inborn faith or knowledge: Mothers and the old women of Nishapur
It is unclear what the content of the faith of the old women/the mother is. This faith does not seem…
The possibilities of a Black religious multiverse
Deciphering and traveling the multiverse with Black religious people invites observers to retheorize Blackness beyond culture, color, and history—allowing the…
Do old women know medicine?
What were old women presumed to know about medicine, and why was it always old women? Alongside the trope of…
Finding the metaphysicians in Black metaphysical religion, ft. Azealia Banks
With the fervor of the converted, Banks has promoted Afro-Caribbean religions—including lesser-known ones, like the Dominican 21 Divisions—by educating African…