Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label religion. Show all posts
June 3, 2020

Islam, Christianity and LGBT in the United States: What do we owe to each other?

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This is a response to Mobeen Vaid's reflection from Feb. 19, 2020 . The author of this piece is an excellent, incisive writer. I enjoy r...
February 24, 2019

A Different Take on American Muslim Progressivism and Identity Politics

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A response to a Medium post , "On American Muslim Progressivism and Identity Politics", by Mobeen Vaid:  This is a thought pr...
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February 4, 2017

Religion, Monotheism, and Ancestral Tradition

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Religions that shift veneration away from accomplished and wise ancestors to more abstract, anti-iconic notions of divinity are most success...
March 13, 2016

On why the Asadian turn in Islamic studies isn't far enough

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I've written before on this blog about the profound influence Talal Asad's Geneaologies of Religion had on my thinking and schola...
November 4, 2015

Public Healing Monotheism and Violence: The Religious Encounter in African History

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a Mijikenda sacred grove in East Africa The various teachers of precolonial African history I've had the privilege to learn from al...
May 27, 2015

Write and Live Forever (inspiration from ancient Egypt)

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from Ancient Egyptian Literature , edited by Miriam Lichtheim "As to those learned scribes, Of the time that came after the gods, T...
April 19, 2014

Duality and Tradition (by way of Wael Hallaq's The Impossible State)

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"Many religious, mystical and other formulations are, up to a point, shrines for the relics of a completely or partially successful att...
April 19, 2010

Religion and Approaches to History (A Peoples History of Monotheism?)

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Picking up where A. Thompson left off in his insightful discussion of monotheistic religion : One thing all religions need to do, above all,...
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April 6, 2010

Religion and State: The Muslim Approach to Politics

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by IBRAHIM M. ABU-RABI' In a 1946 seminal essay titled "Politics and the English Language," the British novelist George Orwell...
October 1, 2009

Saba Mahmood interviews Talal Asad (excerpts)

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full interview here. Asad discusses modernity, religion, what agency is, Islamic reform, the difference between dependency theory and postc...
September 29, 2009

Secularism, hegemony, and fullness (Talal Asad)

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I've posted some stuff from Talal Asad before, from his book Geneaologies of Religion . The link below will take you to a link where he...
September 26, 2009

Book Review: Muntu by Jaheinz Jahn

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I can’t say enough about this book. Over 50 years old, it is still worth revisiting for the force for which it makes its defense of African ...
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December 18, 2008

Scholars in the Empire: Sketching a Framework for Understanding

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وَمَا أَرْسَلْنَا فِي قَرْيَةٍ مِنْ نَذِيرٍ إِلَّا قَالَ مُتْرَفُوهَا إِنَّا بِمَا أُرْسِلْتُمْ بِهِ كَافِرُونَ Never did we send a warner t...
December 3, 2008

Taqleed, Ijtihad, and Wujub al-nazr

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You drown in an ocean of God and can't breath -Jedi Mind Tricks Recently I have been digging into different facets of Islamic theology,...
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August 17, 2008

Liberation, Theology, and the Abrahamic Religions

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"We must go beyond giving a piece of bread to the little ones who knock on our doors...Saying 'yes' to them may make us feel go...
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