How do we understand the Islamicness of Urdu poetry and also the spread of Urdu poetry far beyond the bounds…
The elegy for good days: Encounters with Urdu poetry in Delhi
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A wind from the invisible: A reply to Spadola and Khan
I am honored and humbled by the great care and critical attention with which Naveeda Khan and Emilio Spadola have…
Death Be Not Proud—A reply
What I suggest in my book is that Donne’s sermon, like many other discussions of attention and distraction in early…
Prayer to no end
Sightings of a bridge between philosophy and religion by way of cognitive technē are among this book’s most exciting contributions.…
Devout death
Marno's argument about the philosophical import of holy attention puts death in a curious position. Death becomes a cognitive problem…
The stakes of attention
When we think of the ways of “generating an experience of full attentiveness” in devotional contexts we often tend to…
Attention and distraction, prayer and poetry
What is holy attention? Does its holiness have to do with the manner with which one attends, the object of…
Where I’m going
I have, on the whole, avoided studying or teaching about death, intent on showing my students that there is more…
Holy attention as art
Importantly, Marno reminds us not to confuse holy attention with religious experience, experience in the sense of suddenly experiencing something…