... , and Salamon Amos . “ Earthquake Damage and Repair: New Evidence from Jerusalem on the 1927 Jericho Earthquake .” Historical Seismologist 85 , no. 4 ( 2014 ): 912 – 22 . destruction seismology earthquakes disasters science Islamic theology theology “Sharp earthquake shocks 1505 hours...

... into the field of articulated theology, suggesting a virulent contestation for orthodoxy where traditionalists are hardly outflanked by the supposed scripturalism of Salafi doctrine. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Islam Africa theology Salafism Sufism References Brenner Louis...

... children to wolves and ends in a missionary theology that claims wolf children as evidence of Christian grace and redemption. It underlines how unexpectedly significant a reckoning with the nonhuman was for evangelical theology and narrative in the colony, and how the narrative depended on trans-species...

... the relationship between media and religion, it suggests that in Rwanda debates about the kind of music Pentecostal artists should perform must be contextualized in relation to (1) a Pentecostal “theology of sound,” or the belief that particular music and sound practices bring individuals closer to God; and (2...

..., an assault on the notion of “subjectivity” common to both the realist novel and Western psychological norms. It attacks not only the idea of monotheistic theologies but their very structure—the grammar of faith—and with it the spiritualization of all careor desire. Éden, Éden, Éden is a world without love...

... itself through a “secular,” “democratic,” and “feminist” transformation of Islamic theology. The emergence of Islamic feminisms is thus regarded as a paradoxical consequence of the spaces that Islamism created in the course of participation in the political game. The article argues that women...

...Richard McGregor This essay focuses on animals as a site for religion and identifies what McGregor calls the “religion of animals.” The construction of the human-animal divide is explored through the Quran, Islamic theology, and philosophy, with particular attention paid to the encyclopedic epistle...

...Rudolph T. Ware, III In this essay, Ware contributes to the Kitabkhana discussion of his book, The Walking Qur'an . The essays in the book forum, he writes, open onto questions of historiography and philosophy, theology and epistemology. Ware responds to these various approaches, defining his...

... by Duke University Press 2021 Christian nationalism theology politics Africa On November 13, 2018, Zambia's recently appointed Minister of National Guidance and Religious Affairs (MNGRA) Reverend Godfridah Sumaili stood before the Zambian parliament asking for approval for her ministry's...

... interlocution with postrevolutionary thinkers that includes fieldwork in the public and private centers of education in Tehran and Qom. It is ethnographically centered on a seminar titled Ilahiyat-i Siyasi (Political Theology), in which seminarian-academics selectively read and translate authors and texts...

...Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Abstract This review looks at how Shahab Ahmed engages with history, political elitism, secularism, and anthropology in his book What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 Islam political theology culture...

... distinction. 20 12. Ibn ‘Abidin, Rad al-Muhtar , 174–75 . 13. Nasir, “Rethinking Muslim Political Theology,” 10 . 14. Nasir, “Rethinking Muslim Political Theology,” 10 . 15. See Ingram, Revival from Below ; Tareen, Defending Muhammad in Modernity . 16. Kaviraj...

... significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical developments . . . but also because of their systematic structure.” Schmitt, Political Theology , 36 . 3. See Arendt, “Tradition and the Modern Age.” Talal Asad...

... at the head of my group Islamist theology. or jama‘ah pretty much the way the Prophet ended There is certainly something mock-Lutheran up at the head of his own. about Shukri Mustafa stomping out of the estab- As the scandalous-if not blasphemous-nature lished mosque, so...

... the biophysical world or planetary necessity has impinged upon human poiesis, leaving a mark in material as well as symbolic domains. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion , Sugata Ray maps such connections among climatic variability, historical eventfulness, theology, and aesthetic practice. He persuasively...

... Political Theology and Political Philosophy . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2011 . Myers David N. “ Of Marranos and Memory: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Writing of Jewish History .” In Jewish History and Jewish Memory: Essays in Honor of Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi , edited...

... of the lower middle classes kept in the banks cial reality by relating them to theology.’ Modem social sci- which are controlled by the government. Through thm pre- ences actually developed when theology and religion were scribed rituals the common masses are made to believe that separated from them...

... a religiosity in conformity with the new social on religious education. The report signaled a A project. In 1924 madrassas (religious schools failure in the objective of the substitution of re- for higher education) closed and the Faculty of ligious feeling with national sensibilities. Conse- Theology...

... . Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty . New York : Columbia University Press , 2011 . LaCapra Dominick . Writing History, Writing Trauma . Baltimore, MD : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2001 . Laroui Abdallah . The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual...

... for the difficulty of relating the orientalists’ studies any hierarchy or truth-value in various islams of a single, universal Islam to ethnographer’s di- was trading in theology, he contended, and not verse, local observations of Muslim practices was in anthropology. Little traditions were no differ- becoming...