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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 59–78.
Published: 01 September 2008
.... In particular, it addresses Padre Marcelo's popular “aerobics of Jesus,” a regime of embodied prayer techniques that combines contemporary music with mediaeval Byzantine prayer techniques as means to awaken the spirit in practitioners. To make the point concrete, the essay examines how a popular hit, “Luz...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 137–145.
Published: 01 September 2013
... as an act of faith, if one were to take seriously the notion of a feminist prayer. This suggestion seemed to go over like a lead balloon. Somehow, both faith and feminism got lost in the shuffle of legal- isms and a more generalized despair over Putin’s...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 67–86.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., sometimes prayer rooms, and bedrooms become living rooms! People’s names suddenly grow or lose letters—as and es mysteriously appear and disappear in the hope that it will be numerologically auspicious...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (2 (95)): 83–103.
Published: 01 June 2008
... simply to expand the area of Bahla into the new suburbs. But walking from inside the walls to the outside through a hole tended almost always to be noted: a held breath or a prayer marked the passage on foot from inside to outside, from the place of safety to the place of dan- ger. Memories...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (4 (129)): 41–70.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of the ordeal. A wry source of solace lay with a Catholic priest embedded with the troops who administered rites of confession and led the troops in prayers of contrition to prepare for their impending death. The soldiers survived that particular sea battle, and experiencing such a dire plight underscored...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 25–53.
Published: 01 December 2000
... and postcolonial immigrant subjectivities. Elsewhere I have dis- cussed how struggles over the construction of mosques and factory prayer rooms have outlined ongoing ambivalences within the French secularist framework, how...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 147–158.
Published: 01 September 2013
... for blasphemy, after miming forty seconds of their song “Punk Prayer” in front of the altar at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral on 21 February of that year. In the video for their earlier single “Kropotkin-­Vodka,” the band can be seen in various sites around Moscow, including high-­end fashion...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (4 (121)): 47–57.
Published: 01 December 2014
... touches John with his arm or, later, a kiss but also with his prayer. We can defne prayer here not in transcendental terms but as a kind of utterance that touches. When John asks if it was Elisha who “prayed him through,” he indicates the tactile sense of Elisha’s words on his body-­soul...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (3 (116)): 1–11.
Published: 01 September 2013
... punk band Pussy Riot for “hooliganism” for their protest performances against the Putin regime ignited global controversy, music was only one element, and perhaps not the most important part, of their activist performance of their “Punk Prayer...
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 101–121.
Published: 01 March 2017
... assembled in neat, forward-facing rows. Their heads were bowed and eyes closed for the daily religious service. Hector, the oldest anexado at that time, stood before the group and recited a prayer. At first I thought the prayer was for Cesi, as sometimes prayers are offered for new arrivals. But as I...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (3 (136)): 25–45.
Published: 01 September 2018
... by a variety of regional choirs who disagreed about whether the song should be performed in the manner of a prayer or a national anthem. And the piece changed in circulation. The song’s lyrics, for example, were translated into Japanese at a moment of incipient solidarity between African Americans and Japanese...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (3 (88)): 99–130.
Published: 01 September 2006
... material results to prayer and promesas are sometimes said to be impertinent, self-centered, even sinful and offensive to the saints. Devotees’ faith and prayerfulness, even without evidence of the saints’ intervention, is encouraged.5 Simi...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 103–119.
Published: 01 December 2021
... prayers. Figure 1. Mir Suhail, I Resist (2020). 2540 × 1874 px. Courtesy of the artist. Figure 1. Mir Suhail, I Resist (2020). 2540 × 1874 px. Courtesy of the artist. As children we loved going to the langar because it was delicious and buttery, but also it was “home food” eaten outside...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 123–136.
Published: 01 September 2000
..., is such a part of our cultural landscape that even the invocation of Jesus Christ at the national prayer breakfasts that launch the new con- gressional sessions (attended by the president, members of both chambers of Congress, the justices of the Supreme Court, governors...
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 35–55.
Published: 01 September 2001
... that on the steps on the side of the well were four or five small tape recorders. I finished as the sun was setting, and Hamad kindly offered me a ride home, saying he would pray later. The call to prayer came, and all...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 11–37.
Published: 01 September 2008
..., for instance, the Salvation Army. Another postwar development is the creation of prayer niches or even small prayer rooms as a feature of some Christian Ambonese homes. Remarkably, the pictures fly in the face of the radically iconoclastic Dutch reformed Calvinist tradition from which Ambon’s...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 137–164.
Published: 01 March 2008
... days of unbroken festival com- memorate the resurrection, a time dedicated to communal joy rather than ascetic practices. During Easter time in Italy, after a centuries-old tradi- tion, parishioners invite their local priest to bless their homes: he drops by each house, says a short prayer...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 1–9.
Published: 01 September 2008
... prayer techniques designed to regulate the breath and through that bring the Holy Spirit into being. 4 Hirschkind and Larkin • Introduction De Abreu is interested in tracing how contemporary technologies become the grounds for the reawakening...
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Social Text (2008) 26 (3 (96)): 39–58.
Published: 01 September 2008
... • Cultures of Death the direction to which Muslims turn in prayer], even though it was a Muslim country. And when his soul was extracted, his right arm was left extended outward, and his left leg was bent. They left him in that condition for about an hour, and then, with his arm...
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Social Text (2006) 24 (2 (87)): 67–88.
Published: 01 June 2006
... uttering the prayer, “May Allah return it to Islam,” but after World War II, and with the loss of Pal- estine, al-Andalus would gain a larger symbolic and political dimension. One reason the Jewish lament for Andalusia is now viewed...