I am interested in mothers that are fathers, fathers that are mothers, and other forms of queer gestation and parenting.
Divine!
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Allah, hidden treasures, and the Divine Feminine
The idea of God the father is simply not part of the dominant Muslim imaginary. Instead Muslim theology speaks of…
Le mal des fleurs
Surely one reason for the ongoing but mistakenly benign and otherworldly cliché of India as a land of “spirituality” is…
Must a female God mother?
As we seek to reimagine God, I am not sure that the corrective to the damage that has been done…
Preposterous practices
In the broader culture and in the academy, we have moved from naming bad people to also naming privilege as…
Smuggling scholarship—In re The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Law
The disciplines of knowledge production—through which we instill in our students the practices of objectivity, generalizability, and professionalism—are no less…
Refashioning gender and modern visual theology
The visual and material repertoire of Heavenly Bodies has also been fundamentally shaped by the role of allegory in Catholic…
Time, gender-bending, and the medieval church
There is undoubtedly an element of drag in contemporary women wearing quasi-clerical garb—drag charged with coquettish sacrilege. These women are…
On category-mistakes and androgynous divinities
A reprieve from those Western epistemological formulations of spirituality, this essay unpacks how the Ewe, an ethnic constituency in Ghana,…
The soulful, comic defiance of Heavenly Bodies
Heavenly Bodies surprised me because I was anticipating a celebration of Catholic aesthetics and fashion. It was partly this. But…