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Teaching Islamic Poetry Beyond Orientalism

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Brenna Moore
November 30, 2021January 20, 2022

Haeri’s book enables us to keep this mystical language alive in our classroom while making sure we don’t ossify it as the orientalists did, and only see it as part of Islam’s past, the domain of rarefied male elites, and as disconnected to living Muslims today

Textual Encounters: Meaning and Time in Islamic Studies

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Kabir Tambar
November 22, 2021January 20, 2022

Haeri’s monograph provides a double reframing—of meaning in terms of recitation and of prayer in terms of the presence of multiple voices.

Introduction to Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Joshua S. Lupo
November 19, 2021January 25, 2024

By inviting us to confront our assumptions about what counts as modern religion, and where its origins lie, Haeri’s book again reminds us that accounts of modernity’s development are indeed contentious, and that there is no singular narrative that unites these different strains.

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Religions of the Heart: Reflections on Reading Niloofar Haeri’s Say What your Longing Heart Desires

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Amy Hollywood
November 19, 2021January 20, 2022

Although Haeri’s rich ethnography focuses specifically on prayer, something like the distinction between a religion of the law and a religion of the heart so common in nineteenth-century Christianity runs throughout the book.

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The Power of Kenyan, Christian, Queer Imagination

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Adriaan van Klinken
October 28, 2021January 27, 2024

The arts have an ability to explore the potential of religion to contribute to a progressive, critical, and innovative vision for society, and thus to inspire social transformation.

On Decolonizing Queer Studies

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Sa'ed Atshan
October 26, 2021January 27, 2024

This essay draws upon van Klinken’s book as a launching pad to think through decolonizing queer studies more broadly.

Reading Religion and Queerness in Postcolonial Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Mujahid Osman
October 19, 2021February 1, 2024

Religion can be viewed not only as a site of oppression for queer bodies, but also as a source of meaning-making and liberation.

The Margins of “Queer Arts of Resistance” in Sub-Saharan Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Ludovic Lado
October 12, 2021January 27, 2024

Van Klinken’s major contribution to the debate is indeed his focus on the use of religiously inspired arguments to challenge homophobia.

Religion, LGBTIQ+ Bodies, and Arts of Resistance in Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Esther Mombo
October 5, 2021January 27, 2024

The narratives that LGBTIQ+ persons relay to van Klinken serve as data points that can then be used to show the folly of those who think LGBTIQ+ persons do not exist or are not worthy of receiving recognition.

Love Bites

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Ebenezer Obadare
September 28, 2021January 27, 2024

Van Klinken’s book is an astounding ero-ethnography in which the author grapples with the question of the research field as a site of desire and vulnerability.

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