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Decolonizing the Tabernacle

Elisha Chi
August 2, 2023January 27, 2024

What does it mean for Jesus to be materially and physically supported by land soaked in the blood of enslavement and genocide?

Modern Religion, Modern Sign, Modern Ritual

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Niloofar Haeri
January 18, 2022January 25, 2024

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.

Language and Feeling in Ritual Practice

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Monique Scheer
December 2, 2021January 20, 2022

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.

Islamic Law, Secularization, and Modernity: Two Islamic Conceptions of the Human

Mohammad H. Fadel
July 30, 2020July 30, 2020

Islamic law (fiqh), far from reflecting an obstacle to secularization—at least in the institutional differentiation sense—was historically a catalyst to it.

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Decolonizing the Tabernacle

Modern Religion, Modern Sign, Modern Ritual

Language and Feeling in Ritual Practice

Islamic Law, Secularization, and Modernity: Two Islamic Conceptions of the Human