Several texts prompted the forum on the religion of the old women of Nishapur. To give readers the ability to…
Al-Juwayni, al-Ghazali, and Talal Asad on the religion of the old women of Nishapur
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The religion of the old women of Nishapur
As a hadith or as a trope, the expression “the religion of the old women” (dīn al-ʿajāʾiz) appears in many…
Questions of power and privilege in Europe’s relationship with Christianity
It is not whether Europe is Christian or not that matters. What matters is who is asking the question and…
Thealogy or pathology? Reflections from South India
Does attributing motherhood to divinity do anything to undermine patriarchy? The answer, at least from where I sit, is no.
Sex and the Catholic Church: What does law have to do with it? Introduction
This series of essays aims to open up, with respect to the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church, the…
Compulsory things: Some reflections on Hirschkind and Doostdar
In an illuminating exchange, Charles Hirschkind and Alireza Doostdar debate the compulsory quality of modern scientific reasoning. Doostdar, in The…
On the advantage and disadvantage of history for life
The more closely one examines the Vatican loan, laid out with minimal commentary in the catalog’s first volume (separated from…
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, something dead
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, which opened this past spring and will…
Keeping the children captive
“God the Father” has some white supremacist dirty laundry in the United States. The image of the Divine Father is…
Wording and worlding: On the form of Bouteldja’s writing
Reading Whites, Jews, and Us may tell me plenty about racism and sexism, but mostly, firstly, not exclusively, it shows…