...Resisting through Religion and for Religion ...

... This chapter examines knotted narratives that assume religion causes gender-based violence. It shows that secular frameworks and the actions of the secular state are as deeply implicated in gender-based violence as are religious actors. Taking as its primary example actions by three successive...

... This entry explores the acoustics of religion as both a conceptual and historical question. After a brief discussion of the sensory epistemology underlying the modern concept of religion, the entry turns to some of the central themes addressed by anthropologists, musicologists, and historians...

...Religion In the early 2000s, Žižek began an intensive project of generating his own account of Christian origins, at once inspired by and in opposition to Alain Badiou’s reading of St. Paul. Žižek’s goal in so doing was to find a way to preserve what he found most attractive in Badiou—his...