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... 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...

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

... This chapter spells out the implications of affect theory by laying out what it can offer religious studies in the wake of the linguistic turn. Where the linguistic turn successfully connected religions to systems of power by focusing on the relationships between religion, language, and history...

... as a performative artifact of American religion, affectively engaging with and reshaping felt political structures for evangelical and nonevangelical bodies. Jesus Camp pedagogy postsecularism globalization American evangelical Christianity ...

... This chapter brings together the theoretical resources developed throughout the book to advance a comprehensive theory of the chimpanzee waterfall dance. It begins with a reflection on the opposition, according to some philosophers of religion, between religion as a linguistically mediated...

...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...

... 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...