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... convincingly show the theoretical and narrative possibilities of methodological attunement to the other-worldly and transcendent, to the divine. As I finished reading the section, I was struck by how the ethnographic task of reckoning with God seemed to end up meaning mostly reckoning with theology...

... on literal readings of the scriptures or have followed a rationalist perspective using their own interpretations of religious teachings. During the past several centuries, as a result of the dominance of secularization and laïcité , religion throughout the world took a backseat and the “death of God...

...Alireza Doostdar Abstract This article examines the power of God in postrevolutionary Iran through an exploration of divine ambiguity in relation to political experience. Over the past four decades, the Iranian political-theological landscape has gone through dramatic transformations in imagining...

... activity was shaped by Orthodox models of social activism where “heaven starts from earth.” Theological concepts of service were activated in relation to a divine management that addressed concrete needs and in response to economic uncertainty. Together, they authenticated a pragmatic God working through...

...Fatemeh Keshavarz Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 Pregnant with God: The Poetic Art of Mothering the Sacred In Rumi’s Fihi Ma Fih Fatemeh Keshavarz Studies of Rumi can no longer stay on the fringes of ing, much remains unsaid. Many feel...

.... Pier Confl Hunger, and God, Lost: Colonies ights linking South Africa and Australia, Mauritius, and Southeast Asia, for example, some- for example, Asia, Southeast...

... of the varied beliefs and rituals of the differ- hood of God. This has remained the characteristic ent African communities from which they had been theme of all Jamaican-initiated religion from, for ex- torn, to create Myal, a Jamaican slave adaptation of their ample, the native Baptists, through...

... Banarsidass. Is God an Untouchable? A Case of Caste Conflict in Rajasthan Dominique-Sila Khan Is the category of caste - jatior warn - relevant to caste. The person against whom the complaint was classlfylng the gods worshipped by the Hindus? An- lodged has slandered our...

...Joud Alkorani; Amira Mittermaier Abstract This special section reflects upon how divine-human relations are shaped by the socioeconomic and political circumstances in which they are cultivated. The four articles treat God not as a rigidly defined, unchanging being borne of ageless scripture...

...ALI RIAZ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 “God Willing”: The Politics and Ideology of Islamism in Bangladesh ALI RIAZ “God willing, we shall form the next government,” in politics. Thirty years later an election had brought a declared Khaleda Zia...

...Yigal Bronner © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 A Road Map for Future Studies: The Language of the Gods in the World of Scholars REVIEW ESSAY Yigal Bronner...

...Lawrence McCrea Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 review essay In the World of Men and beyond It Thoughts on Sheldon Pollock’s The Language of the Gods in the World of Men Lawrence McCrea t is a rarity...

...Joud Alkorani Abstract This article examines how Muslim women living in Dubai are invited into a distinct relationship with God. Highlighting the role of God in constituting the self, it complicates narratives of self-making that presume a bounded and agentive self, as seen in prior accounts...

... at the center of analysis, attending to people's understandings of waste of time ( daya‘ al-waqt ) in relation to divine power allows for moving beyond secular, materialistic understandings of time. Placing God at the center of analysis, the article explores how temporal inequalities created in and through...

... conceptual tool: the notion of the human being as a “walking Quran.” As Diagne discusses, many Islamic traditions insist on the fact that the Quran is truly written in the heart of the believer who thus becomes an embodiment of the Word of God. As the being chosen to be the bearer of the Word spoken by God...

...HOMA KATOUZIAN In Iran, both before and after Islam, the ruler was thought to be God's vicegerent on earth and, unlike Europe, his legitimacy was not dependent on the law of primogeniture. Thus he was not bound by any written or unwritten law or tradition and could take decisions up to the utmost...

...” and “full implementation of Sharia” as a political platform sanctioned by revelation. This essay suggests that neither claim is legitimate. Political power is a worldly question. Neither the Koran nor Prophet Muhammad himself claimed that he ruled on behalf of God. Nor did Muslims in the early age of Islam...

...Rebecca Gould This essay aims at a methodological interpretation of Sheldon Pollock's oeuvre from the perspective of comparative literary history. Part 1 focuses on his recent magnum opus, The Language of the Gods in the World of Men . Part 2 compares the Sanskrit cosmopolis in Pollock's...

... relationship in accordance with a martyr's view of self as pertains to his or her actions in the face of God, country, and man under the rubric of some historical and literary events and productions throughout Iranian history is also epmhasized. Duke University Press 2009...

... positions were articulated. Such positions included Rida’s insistence on the compatibility between Islam and the Enlightenment, Malihabadi’s appropriation of non-Muslim forms of thought to the repertoire of the Salafi principle of Tawhid (Unity of God), and al-Hilali’s call for Islamic conformity...