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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 175–196.
Published: 01 October 2017
... to fit a space left by the death of God If queer theory analyzes the discourses that swelled to fill the empty throne room of God, how could it not be troubled by lingering words about that old God? Queer re ligion will continue to make trouble for queer theory so long as religion contains the dangerous...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 155–182.
Published: 01 October 2022
.... In Tien’s practice, one can learn how the liberatory kernel of religion and the truth of sexual difference—key components of moral treatment in nineteenth-century asylum reform—became amplified by emerging paradigms of neural nets and information processing. In Tien’s practice—what he called Electric Love...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 219–241.
Published: 01 October 2017
... is neither legal disquisition nor metaphysical inquiry.Or not exactly.We are offered instead an ardent rhapsody on the saving human force ofsomething that is reducible neither to religion nor to law, though the editorial will insist that this force, the preservative of "everything that is pure and sacred...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 253–278.
Published: 01 October 2021
... or Will Give Ear and Be a Witness) .” Al-ʿUrwā al-wuthqā 1 , no. 4 ( 1884 ): 86 – 95 . Agamben Giorgio . Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive , translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel . New York : Zone Books , 1999 . Ahmad Irfan . Religion as Critique: Islamic...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 197–218.
Published: 01 October 2017
...-judicial. As a mechanism for regulating marriage and divorce, talaq-ul-ba'in ought inherently to be of concern to the state.4 Indeed, moralizing judicial rhetoric disavows the practice, describing it as spiritually bankrupt,5 bad for women,6 unjustifi able either "in the eye of religion or the law",7...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): 139–174.
Published: 01 October 2017
... was built, and in doing so he secured religion "deep" within a sexualized body and its taken-for-granted gender hierarchies. Humbard and his creation stand as a rather luminous example of secu larism in the 1970s, exemplary of how religion becomes proprietized as an interior matter, and how it dovetails...
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 241–269.
Published: 01 October 2022
... with respect to religion, race, gender, and so forth—while laboring to identify the positive, affective, behavioral, and epistemological characteristics of what they call, following Asad, “the secular” ( Formations ). By the time Asad published Formations , academic treatments of secularism had long...
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History of the Present (2018) 8 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and allows us to explore legalbonds that are not primarily social. We have long known that not all law is state law.2 It is equallytrue that not all law is social; not all legal bonds are primarily social bonds that govern humanrelationships.3 Religion is a case in point, for religion, like law, binds...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 122–147.
Published: 01 October 2012
... in the psychoanalytic and socialist traditions, Blake asserts that the shaming of the body, the repression of libido and creativity, is causally related to the construction and preservation of unjust social arrangements."Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion;' he tells us...
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (1): 84–100.
Published: 01 April 2020
... with the church and its adherents to produce the life of zegas as one lived in constant fear and self-surveillance. Religion, sexuality, and secularism constitute each other, as witnessed in the legal provisions based on Christian religious logic that cut across both imperial and contemporary periods...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
... Bruno Bauer writing in the early nineteenth century, for example, Jewish emancipation (citizenship) could come only when Jews renounced (freed themselves from)Judaism as a pub lic identity. Religion was antithetical to the putative universalism of the secular state, and for that reason, he added...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
... histories of survival, occupation, and pleasure. Anish Gawande’s “From Petitions to Demands, Restitution to Representation” provides us a snippet of possibility amid the corrosive segregations of sexuality, caste, and religion within contemporary India. Gawande narrates a story of a march, a refusal...
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (1): 108–137.
Published: 01 April 2024
... Carrying Agreement was put in place, a state committee was appointed to approve and authorize the surrogacy contracts between the Israeli surrogate and the intended parents. The law included a religious clause, requiring the surrogate carrier and the intended mother to share the same religion. The same...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 192–218.
Published: 01 October 2023
... of the constitution? Insofar as the donation of people-ness as a territorially inscriptive text must also announce its own annulment as class/caste/sex/race/religion, the constitution is a statement of an imaginary totality—not entirely, however, given the context of its historic awareness of caste apartheid...
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 152–192.
Published: 01 October 2021
... . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1992 . Bate Bernard . “ Arumuga Navalar, Saivite Sermons, and the Delimitation of Religion, c. 1850 .” Indian Economic and Social History Review 42 , no. 4 ( 2005 ): 469 – 84 . Bate Bernard . “ Bharati Style and the Tamil National Popular...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 184–199.
Published: 01 October 2012
... disturbing filmic portrayal of Islam as an evil and misogynist religion and culture, the proclaimed defense ofwomen constitutes a common denominator ofthe so-called new radical Right in Europe, as well as an insidious argument increasingly deployed by neoliberalgovernments and the mass media across...
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (2): i–iv.
Published: 01 October 2017
... and submissions sent to: [email protected]. VOLUME SEVEN, NUMBER TWO, FALL 201 7 History ofthe Present SEX AND RELIGION Special Issue edited by Mayanthi Fernando and Joan W. Scott Polymer Love John Modern Who and What is Sex For?: Notes on Theogamy and the Sexuality ofReligion Lucinda Ramberg Paying...
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History of the Present (2015) 5 (1): 83–94.
Published: 01 April 2015
..., and religions" should be supplemented, whereby the intellectual necessity required not only that there existed an Orient butalso, and indeed foremost, an Occidentfor the Occidental scholars oflanguages, cultures, and religions;25 Semitism, similarly, could only exist in contrast with Indo-Europeanism, or more...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 127–132.
Published: 01 April 2023
.... Militarized societies endure many invasive techniques of control and violence that split open and restitch society in vulgar ways. Therefore, mistrust of the state is matched only by suspicion of each other. Existing and refurbished sociocultural hierarchies of class, caste, gender, religion, and ethnicity...
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (1): 52–70.
Published: 01 April 2012
... of ikhtil11f today and on the uses that can be made ofit in order to broach the question ofdifference-ofdivergence and diversity-within the Islamic religion. Finally, I willtouch on its pertinence for Islam's relation to other religions and other cultures, something which amounts mainly to elaborating a new...
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