Modern Religion, Modern Sign, Modern Ritual
When we recite, in time we come to embody the language of the recitation. We hear our own voice and at times that of others.
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The Divergent Encounter between Prayer and Poetry in Contemporary Iran
The relationship between prayer and poetry in these women’s practices is far from simple. Prayer and poetry are too similar to be separated, but too different to be equated.
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Language and Feeling in Ritual Practice
Conventional wisdom, biased toward Protestant Christianity, would claim that “modern religion” is the kind that fits best to modern society, which is defined and purportedly organized as secular.
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Introduction to Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
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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