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Bulletin for the study of religion feed- Bulletin 41.2
- Reed M. N. Weep Retirement
- Field Notes: News and Announcements in the Discipline
- Divinity Manifest in a Female Body: Guglielma of Milan as the Holy Spirit, Female Deity and Female Leadership in the Later Middle Ages
- Sexual Liberality as Othering: The Case of Islam in Late Antiquity and Modernity
- SORAAAD Book Notes with the Bulletin
- Romania’s Saving Angels: ”New Men”, Orthodoxy and Blood Mysticism in the Legionary Movement
- Christus Virgo: Representations of Christ as a Virgin in Early Christianity and Late Antiquity
- Editorial: New Challenges, New Directions
- 'The Stars Down to Earth' - Why Educated Women in the Western World Use Astrology
Tag Archives: Islam
What’s in a Name?
By Steven Ramey Discussing the enforcement of shariah in Aceh, Indonesia, a student (at my home institution, the University of Alabama) asked how police would know if the rule-breaker was Muslim, since some claimed the law only applied to Muslims. … Continue reading
Posted in Pedagogy, South Asian Studies, Steven Ramey
Tagged Arya Samaj, India, Indoneia, Islam, Muslim, University of Alabama
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Devotional Islamic Anti-Terrorism
By Summar Shoaib After Taliban militants kidnapped three Sikh men and beheaded one of them in Pakistan in 2010, Muhammad Khurshid Khan, the deputy attorney general of Pakistan, has taken up shining the shoes of worshipers at the Sikh Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Southeast Asian Studies, Summar Shoaib
Tagged devotion, Islam, Muslims, Pakistan, penance, Religious Violence, Sikhs
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Yoga and the Question of Religious Identity
By Deeksha Sivakumar Is yoga Hindu? Both categories (yoga, Hindu) are, of course, highly problematic on both conceptual and historical grounds. If we were to ask whether yoga is Indian, more people may feel comfortable answering in the affirmative, though … Continue reading
On Hijabs and Hoodies in Contemporary America
By Summar Shoaib Less than a month after the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida, Shaima Alawadi, an Iraqi immigrant living with her five children and husband, was found beaten to death in her San Diego home. A note found … Continue reading
Qur’anic Reading as Embodied Practice
By Summar Shoaib In Western traditions, whether religious or scholarly, reading and meaning are typically understood in solely cognitive terms, as a matter of extracting content from a text by way of the mind’s interpretive efforts. In traditional Islamic worlds, … Continue reading
On the “Ordinary Muslim”
I’ve posted twice already about the Lowe’s fiasco. Here’s an addendum: While this satire perpetuates the “they’re just like ordinary Americans” trope, what I like about it is that it’s designed to upset stereotypes. It reminds me of the “Ordinary … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Picture Book, Religion and Society
Tagged All-American Muslim, Islam, Lowe's, Memes, Ordinary Muslim
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The Weight of “Ordinary”
Lowe’s has recently come under fire for withdrawing its advertising from the TLC show, “All-American Muslim.” Apparently the withdrawal of advertising came following the prompting of an anti-Muslim advocacy group. According to his group, The Learning Channel’s new show All-American … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Religion and Society, Religion in the News
Tagged Assimilation, Ethnocentrism, Islam, Muslims
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Romanticizing the Qur’an
I recently saw this TED video over at Sociological Images. Although Sociological Images is one of my favorite blogs, there are serious problems with it, and I wish there had been some critical commentary in the post. Here are just … Continue reading
The Author of the Qur’an Revealed! And it’s you.
Suddenly the Qur’an is bubbling with ecological insights and environmental sensitivity: Islam teaches a deep love of the planet, because loving the planet means loving ourselves and loving our Creator. -Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Green Deen: What Islam Teaches about Protecting the … Continue reading
Religious Essentialism
I spend a good bit of time in my courses trying to disrupt religious essentialism: the idea that all practitioners in a religious tradition share some essence, that such an essence determines their behavior, or that their beliefs are the … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Pedagogy
Tagged Belief, Bible, Christianity, Idolatry, Islam, Murder, Qur'an, Religion and Violence, Religious Essentialism
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