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Articles tagged as "Embodiment"

The Injured Body: Palestine, Mizrahi Jews, and the Imperial Politics of Color

Mara Ahmed and Shirly Bahar
March 24, 2023January 25, 2024

The documentary performances powerfully politicize pain by shaping it as a relational event that took place between the performing person and the state, and is lingering in the person’s body and ways of speaking, expressing, and representing themselves to this day.

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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.

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Can We Mediate between the Historical and the Rational? Reflections on al-Juwaynī’s Epistemology and Politics

Series: Law and Politics under the Abbasids
Mohammad H. Fadel
May 6, 2021January 27, 2024

Integrating quotidian practices into natural human reason seems to me to be the only way to provide them a secure foundation in modernity, when even deeply embodied customs cannot provide stability.

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Theorizing Bodies in Religious Studies

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion
Mayra Rivera
June 30, 2020February 1, 2024

Decolonial scholarship on the body entails not just adding a new category of analysis; it requires a shift in approach.

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