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differences (2023) 34 (2): 58–83.
Published: 01 September 2023
...Lucia Hulsether This article interrogates feminist frameworks for understanding the racial and sexual politics of United States secularism. It theorizes the history of religious freedom law as a history of racial performance. Reading the aesthetic practices surrounding the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 124–136.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Elizabeth A. Castelli Religion has long been the object of theorization, and the history of this theorization is grounded in a history of making sense of difference. After a brief survey of this history, this essay considers the religious turn in contemporary philosophy, the increasing attention...
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 101–130.
Published: 01 May 2012
... and reproductive language used by the religious Right, seeking to prove homosexuality both memetically and genetically sterile. Reading popular publications on biological causes of homosexuality, this article shows how “born gay” and “gay gene” discourses produce their own vulgar Darwinism, echoing the voices...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 112–139.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of the religious myth of immediate, surface reading or the empiricist conception of the text as veiled truth, these approaches proclaim their critical “innocence” and disavow the metalanguages that bring the textual surface into view. Rooney argues that the figure of terrain enables a reading that confesses its...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 224–249.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., through a discussion of the writings of Derrida and Auerbach, among others, that the connotations of forgiveness extend considerably beyond a strictly religious dimension, going so far as to bear on contemporary theoretical questions about translation and the secularization of representation...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 21–48.
Published: 01 December 2023
... condenses the collapse of narrativity structured by normative, moral, religious, and ideological values, has been accompanied by the elimination of limits on which the social state has always relied. Social engineering, based on the calculated and extreme exploitation of man’s helplessness, has replaced...
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differences (1992) 4 (2): 134–153.
Published: 01 July 1992
... of religion emerges in concert with shifts away from narrowly conceived theological d iff ere nee s: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 4.2 (1992) d fferences 135 studies and toward a broader focus on the ways in which religious ideas alld practices are articulated within a historical frame. The question...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 152–180.
Published: 01 December 2007
... . Bal, Mieke. Death and Dissymmetry: The Politics of Coherence in the Book of Judges . Chicago: u of Chicago p, 1988 . 80 -93. Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Advertisement. New York Times 6 Sept. 2005 : A5 . Bercovitch, Sacvan. The American Jeremiad . Madison: u of Wisconsin p, 1978...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 1–6.
Published: 01 December 2007
...: George W. Bush and the Christian Right . New York: New Press, 2005 . Kintz, Linda. Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America . Durham, nc: Duke up, 1997 . Kintz, Linda, and Julia Lesage, eds. Media, Culture, and the Religious Right . Minneapolis: u...
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differences (1995) 7 (1): 48–74.
Published: 01 April 1995
... the (more or less completely sovereign) nation-state and (more or less unified) national culture, is exactly what is at stake in current debates on "the New World Order," on dominant and dominated languages, religious and literary standards in education, etc. I would like to emphasize the latent...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 7–42.
Published: 01 December 2007
.... It is commonplace now to hear Evangelical and Fundamen- talist preachers and pundits of the religious right lament the demise of religion in the public square and the “absence” of God from the public- school classroom. The litany of these complaints...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 55–62.
Published: 01 May 2019
...,” a formulation of their relationship often heralded by the religious right and dismissed with disgust by the liberal left. As in all things in the post-truth Trump era, what matters here is not the factuality of the nickname but the truth effect of its symbolism and the consequences of its implementation...
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differences (1989) 1 (2): 59–76.
Published: 01 July 1989
... moments in religious ceremonies, but actual celebrants, notably of the Eucharist, just as men and Jesus were. 60 Equal to Whom? When I think of all the arguments I have heard against the admission of women to the priesthood, Schussler Fiorenza's views let in a breath of fresh air and a bit of spirit...
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 May 2022
... a place of resilience and complicated inhabitations of gender, class, and religious norms, rather than one of categorical resistance and condemnation of the place they fled in their quest for asylum. Approaching sexual asylum through two Iranian bear claimants’ tribulations with the unhcr brings...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 81–96.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Kathleen Roberts Skerrett © 2007 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2007 kathleen roberts skerrett is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Grinnell College. Connolly, William E. Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed . Minneapolis...
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differences (2016) 27 (1): 143–175.
Published: 01 May 2016
... : Princeton UP , 2005 . Mahmood Saba . “ Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide? ” Is Critique Secular? Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech . By Asad Talal Brown Wendy Butler Judith Mahmood Saba . Berkeley : Townsend Center for the Humanities, University...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 97–127.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Randall Styers © 2007 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2007 randall styers is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the author of Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 43–80.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Erin Runions © 2007 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2007 erin runions is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Pomona College. She is the author of How Hysterical: Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film (Palgrave, 2003...
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differences (2004) 15 (2): 1–31.
Published: 01 September 2004
... were histori- cally ostracized while women were straightforwardly subordinated by law and by individual men, or that Jews were a religious group while women were excluded on the basis of their bodies. Such responses may open...
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 66–101.
Published: 01 May 2018
... of universal love as an antidote to the rising tide of hatred and violence. That he perceived this as a broader cultural development is clear from comments he made at an informal meeting of the Vienna Society in 1928. After enumerating several types of Weltanschauungen (animistic, religious, materialistic...