The queerness of lost boys in butt huts struck me in the journalistic accounts I had read, and I took…
Revisited: Polyandry now!
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Making persons, cultures, and nations
In this exchange, Levi McLaughlin and Deonnie Moodie discuss person-making, culture-making, and nation-making projects in Japan and India.
On the night of the Notre-Dame fire
Is Christianity still a foundational element of European identity? How could Christian heritage contribute to revive the European project?
Populism without borders
In order to grasp the antagonisms covered up by the discourse on populism we should, I suggest, relate it to…
Secularization histories as cultural-political programs
In a The Immanent Frame post on buffered selves, Charles Taylor commented that “The process of disenchantment, involving a change…
Buddhism in context
For Tricycle, an independent Buddhist publication, Linda Heuman interviews David McMahan, scholar of Buddhism and modernity, and author of The…
The secular as space, the secular as process: The 2012 UCSIA summer school
At the end of August, the two of us joined approximately 30 scholars from around the world in Antwerp, Belgium…
Every moment an Aha! Moment!
Kathryn Lofton’s Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon is a work, first and foremost, of cultural anthropology. The back cover…
De-provincializing Oprah
In Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon, Kathryn Lofton holds up a lustrous mirror to the polymorphously perverse dynamics of…
Oprah, the Rorschach test
Focusing on Oprah as an icon/inkblot, we can use our reactions to her as a Rorschach test: What do we…