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Articles tagged as "Literature"

Mining for Theology: The Limits of the Postsecular in Khaled Furani’s Redeeming Anthropology

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Joshua Lupo
February 21, 2023February 23, 2023

Why do we need idolatry to recognize our false claims to possess the absolute, when fallibilism will do? Is it just to offer religious people a piece of the secular pie?

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A Ritual of One’s Own

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Ahoo Najafian
December 7, 2021January 20, 2022

Haeri illustrates that in Iran, religion is constituted by poetry and that in the public imagination, poetry plays an authoritative role in defining, destabilizing, and pushing the boundaries of religion.

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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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Literature, Theology, and Abul Kalām Āzād

Series: Madrasa Discourses
Sameena Kausar
August 20, 2020August 20, 2020

To think critically means one has to closely study one’s surroundings and look at things in unprecedented ways. We know that the voice of literature has the power to create such new ways of seeing.

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