The context Stone Town Café in the old city of Zanzibar is located in the middle of the most stunning…
Sultan Bargash and Zanzibar’s cosmopolitan modernity
modernity
Abstraction and reduction, with continual reference to Hilma af Klint
How might the methodological orientation of phenomenology be compared to formally focused movements in other modernist domains where relations between…
Is Europe Christian?—An introduction
Olivier Roy introduces his argument in Is Europe Christian?, that the real break between contemporary European culture and Christianity is…
Protection without punishment: Turning to Buddhist gods during Covid-19
I am curious about how people turned to the gods historically, the discursive modes permissible for doing so in 2020,…
Practices of relation: Fernando and Harding
In this exchange, Mayanthi Fernando and Susan Harding reflect on the norms and taboos of the secular academy and on…
Thinking from the verge: The dynamic of secularism and its others
In this forum prompted by Emily Ogden’s Credulity, Susan Lepselter’s The Resonance of Unseen Things, Pamela Klassen’s The Story of…
Revelations in method
Uncanny or rational, spiritual or empirical, the genesis of thinking cannot be pinned down.
Practices of relation: Khawaja and Levene
Noreen Khawaja and Nancy Levene, authors respectively of the recently published books, The Religion of Existence and Powers of Distinction,…
Modernity’s residues
How is modernity sticky—prone to leaving a residue? How are secularization theses still affecting us “as gelatinous or glutinous matters…
Thinking with/through analogies
Jones takes his readers on an ethnohistorical journey that traverses instrumental magic (which is mostly occult and “primitive”), stage magic…