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...Liza Tom; Shilpa Menon This article examines the transition ritual ( nirvanam ) in a specific community of thirunangais , a regional transfeminine community characterized by ritual practices of worship and labor, to inquire into forms of religious worlding and subject- formation that take place...

...Danai S. Mupotsa The wedding is often observed as performing a narrative closure, for instance, as a ritual that acts as a rite of passage to proper sex, or proper gendered and sexuated statuses framed in the terms of heteronormativity and homonormativity. The aims of this article are to sit beside...

... forms and drawing on discourse analysis and ethnographic vignettes, the author shows how ritualized practices associated with audit culture in aid economies (monitoring and evaluation, paperwork, counting) operate as queer sites of multiplying possibilities and emergences. Rather than expose faking...

... an astonishingly interdisciplinary engagement. Part of what Rubin has given social scientists (as well as ethnographically minded humanists) is a model of how to link discourse and representation to the domain of practice as enacted within the lived worlds of erotic communities that are marked by their own rituals...

... in the nineteenth-century colony of Natal brought them into conflict with the Zulu peoples they sought to supplant and exploit. A reading of emigrant letters, missionary pamphlets, and newspaper correspondence reveals that the persistence of the practice of isithembu (polygamy) and ilobolo (the ritual exchange...

... in contemporary India. The authors offer new directions in transgender studies by showing how religious narratives, ritual and performance lie at the heart of transgender subject formation while gesturing toward how such formation risks subsuming transgender identities within (Hindu) nationalist projects...

..., distinguished not by their relations to animals but by their relations to capital. Finally, the article reads this insight against the biopolitical theorist Giorgio Agamben's concept of anthropogenesis and notes that such exemptions reveal a limitation in his theory. In place of the timeless ritualism...

... created in these districts a distinct counterpublic with its own moral norms, performance practices, rituals for renaming new members, conventions for collective housing, and networks for pooling resources. Urban renewal and increased policing in US cities violated these norms, providing the anger...

...” — indeed, in the example of disciplinary reform, Jordan shows, “in many ways, the secular is another mode of religious reform, the latest reformed religion” (53). Foucault recalls religion through a num- ber of markers, especially ritual, but also “ceremony or liturgy, doctrine...

... offers an interdisciplinary analysis of contemporary Santería practices and transnational networks. Aisha M. Beliso- De Jesús provides rich eth- nographic accounts of the use of digital media in ritual practices and expertly historicizes the expansion of Santería in the twentieth...

... meeting for the first time — to form ephemeral yet expansive rural community. Over days or weeks, gatherings connect partici- pants in activities such as cooking communal meals, repairing the land’s build- ings, and hosting performances, pagan rituals, or discussion circles where people share...

...) Ball to coincide with the fanompoambe ( Great Service ) the popular annual ritual return by pilgrims, supplicants, and spirit mediums alike to the royal shrine of Ndramisara in the city of Mahajanga, in northwestern Madagascar.2 In fact, the MSM Ball was held on the evening before the final day...

... in Queer Companions (155–59), I would suggest three main pathways: explorations of the religiosity of queerness, elaborations of the queerness of religion, and queer thea/ologies. Elaborations of the religiosity of queerness have taken the ritual of Pride, the space of the BDSM dungeon or dyke bar...

... Miller Mary Ellen . 1986 . The Blood of Kings: Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art . Fort Worth, TX : Kimball Art Museum . Scholes France V. Adams Eleanor B. 1938 . Don Diego Quijada, Alcalde Mayor de Yucatán, 1561–1565 . 2 vols . Mexico City : Antiguo Librería Robredo, de José...

... Santería traditions that count women and gay men as some of their most active participants in ritual possession (120). In the final section of the book, Strongman shifts his focus to Brazilian literary representations of Candomblé and to the religion's contemporary transatlantic influence in Europe...

...- rections are the conceptual mapping of time and space onto material bodies for the reperformance of history, in the present, as the present. In Vodoun ritual, the lwas (the term given to the life force when represented anthropomorphically) are the forces that permit...

... of gendered expectation excised. The epilogue, called Opshernish after the Orthodox Jewish ritual, occurred two months later at the closing of the installation. It revisited the second and third phases of shaving with clippers and razor. The Opshernish...

... it, is hardly Christian. He argues that the wedding planner is the new priest — for both straight and queer marriages — and that religion serves the function of decoration therein. Jordan deconstructs much of the ritual surrounding GLQ 12:4 © 2006 by Duke University Press 642 GLQ: A JOURNAL...

.... He argues that the wedding planner is the new priest — for both straight and queer marriages — and that religion serves the function of decoration therein. Jordan deconstructs much of the ritual surrounding GLQ 12:4 © 2006 by Duke University Press 642 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY...

... cul- ture has created it, is hardly Christian. He argues that the wedding planner is the new priest — for both straight and queer marriages — and that religion serves the function of decoration therein. Jordan deconstructs much of the ritual surrounding GLQ 12:4 © 2006 by Duke University...