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In-Between Affect: Governing (with) Saints

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Omar Kasmani
December 6, 2023February 1, 2024

The affective in-between is where we feel and thereby know that the Pakistani state is present in scenes of religious intimacy.

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Modernity, Coloniality, and Interiority in Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Brenna Moore
May 4, 2022February 1, 2024

The affective, even queer way Maritain and Massignon carried themselves is “modern” in a sense because modernity creates space for the perpetuation of hegemonic norms as well as their subversion.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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Introduction to Symposium on Kenyan, Christian, Queer

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Joshua S. Lupo
September 28, 2021January 25, 2024

Van Klinken and this symposium’s contributors open up new spaces for imagining the emancipatory possibilities that come with attending to queer religious life in Kenya and beyond.

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They Say “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” Look, We Are All over Palestine

Series: Decoloniality in Practice
Halah Abdelhadi
February 3, 2021January 25, 2024

Tackling the homophobic deployment of religion requires using theological tools that expand interpretations of religious meanings and orients them to the suffering of queer communities.

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