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...Ann Pellegrini This essay examines the role of sincerity in several recent US Supreme Court cases on religious freedom in which plaintiffs successfully sought religious exemptions from otherwise applicable state or federal laws: Hosanna-Tabor , Hobby Lobby , and Holt . Under a religious sincerity...

... past and present, as a corollary of institutional corporatization, and heed the call for a more sincere alliance between theater and performance studies. The essay is also a call for the arts and humanities in general to confront the market and global logics of knowledge production; it argues that we...

... in that. Still, by the time I was old enough to know much, the unions were so desperate for income that you could rent their hiring halls out for fifty bucks a night to host an all-ages punk show. Years later, when I recounted this anecdote to Stanley, he nodded in sincere approval. “See,” he said...

.... Obviously you don’t want to be something you’re not — punk was about being yourself — or at least it was when refracted through the pious sincerity of American hardcore. No more silly “punk names”; instead there were actual straight edge groups with names like Integrity. But any drag queen can tell...

... generated a lot of praise and denunciation. The negative criticism I read ranged from thoughtful con- cerns about the politics of staging such a project in the Bronx and another line of commentary that questioned the artist’s sincerity or condemned the endeavor as naïve. Moten continued to work...

... religion. Johnson here points to a different modality of political theology, one that assembles the production of peoplehood, reason of state, and the symbolic and social force of human sacrifice into a state religion’s transformative rituals of death. In her contribution, “Sincerely Held...

... are embarrassingly sincere in their enthusiasm (the Kenyan matatu driver); some look like they are trying to brush away an annoying ear-worm (the Chicago cop); all are entangled, by this case of spooky action at a distance, into a momentary convergence that leaves Kala, the Indian pharmaceutical worker...

... questions have undergirded analyses of the 1798 sedition in Bahia, particularly around the issue of whether the conspirators were truly going to rebel and whether their calls for ending racial discrimina- tion and slavery were in fact sincere. On the one hand...

... makes caricatures of its many sincere adherents but also leaves no terrain for engaging them.” Nevertheless, Moreton deftly illustrates the complic- ity of Christian piety, surplus value extraction, and heteronormativity in Wal-Mart’s neocolonial ethics of (social) investment. Finally, Michael...

..., and the Singer Manufacturing Company. He also converted to Islam and to the teachings of Ibn Wahhab. Although some suspected his sincerity, he endured the discomforts of circumcision as an adult, and he went out of his way to publish articles...

... that they sincerely felt or whether the participants reported it as a flaw given that they understood it to be the characteristic they were supposed to be working on. In the afternoon of the first day of the training we began methodically working through each of Covey’s seven habits, which were divided...

... love material things / gimme that, damn it / I’m not going to sell you anything / go marry a millionaire who’ll give you a house / a car / money / but he’ll never give you the pure and sincere love I have for you” / the girl, what’s she...

... November 2005; Piotr Smolar, “Clichy revendique une colère ‘sincère,’ dix jours après la mort des deux adolescents” (“Clichy Expresses ‘Sincere’ Anger, Ten Days after the Deaths of Two Adolescents Le Monde, 7 November 2005; Henri Astier, “Ghettos Shackle French Muslims,” BBC News, 31...

... hopeful to get your help and the required recommendation. Sincerely Z. N. (1967) Two points are noteworthy in this letter. First is the absence of any refer- ence to the quali cations of this person. Not only did he not consider his educational quali cations worth mentioning or relevant...

... to you,” and a U.S. spokesman apologized “for the damage we brought to you during the Second World War.”40 Like the domestic racial reconciliation movement in the United States, atonement was spiritually sincere but structurally vacant...

... is tremendously ambivalent and, given its recep- tion, maybe a bit embarrassing.7 The reluctance of participants to identify with the scene may in part derive from an acknowledgment of this fact, that what makes emo sincere for some listeners...

... the author function in a way that the bricolage that is his life’s work makes quite difficult. Here, Arguedas’s already canonized sincerity becomes nothing short of ontological. In Moreiras’s essay, Arguedas’s uncompromising dedication to the Andeanization of modernity is obligatory, one gathers...

... and sincere desires that would not create a fissure in the oppressive Latin American cultural structure. In an archetypal and provocative fashion the two protagonists, Violante and Xica herself, are women and daughters...

...- Guillamón, Sarah de Rijcke, Tjitske Holtrop, and the students and colleagues who attended the “Is Another University Possible?” meeting on the eve of the strike. My sincere thanks also go to the Social Text collective, including reviewers, for their immensely thoughtful editorial work. Any shortcomings...

... tacos. Let's not sit down. Let's disrupt that mundanity. Let's not march in order or in time, follow the bullhorn, wave our sign, smile at the sincere white person next to us. How boring. Let's listen to this fellow citizen's Chicago house mixtape and join in like our lives depended on it. As Frantz...