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Society with Indian Characteristics: Caste, Class, and Species in Contemporary Retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa
This paper analyzes the construction of Indian society in retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa published in India between 2010 and 2020. I focus on the...
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Border-Crossing: Religion, Gender, Race, and Class in the Journeys of Ifemelu in Americanah
This chapter is an analytical reading of the journeys of Ifemelu, the protagonist of Adichie’s novel, Americanah, and her simultaneous experiences of...
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Flirting with Fanaticism: Ecstasy, Authenticity, and Middle-Class Respectability
Pethrus was responsible for the preaching, practices, and theological norms of the Pentecostal movement—he functioned in the role other churches call...
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The Evolution of North American Jews’ Relations with Israel from Adolescence to Adulthood: The Bar/Bat Mitzvah Class of 1994–95 (5755)
Attachment to Israel is one of the markers and consequences of the upbringing and education of young North American Jews. As a marker it is directly...
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Ecofeminist Perspectives from African Women Creative Writers Earth, Gender, and the Sacred
This volume explores contemporary African women’s creative writing, highlighting their contributions to ecofeminist theology. Contributors address...
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Religion, Science, and the Middle Class in the All World Gayatri Pariwar
The All World Gayatri Pariwar is a modern Hindu movement that utilizes scientific rhetoric a great deal in its discourse. Based on ethnographic...
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The Śrī Maṅkala Vināyakar Satsaṅg Group: Religious Practice and Middle-Class Status in Tamil Nadu, South India
This article presents an organized group of middle-class, multicaste Hindu housewives living in the suburbs of Madurai, Tamil Nadu—the Śrī Maṅkala...
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Seeking Allies Within the Institutional Church: Reflections from South Africa on Partnership as Means to Unsettling Deadlocked Conflict?
One of the means that has long been proposed with regard to addressing the deadlocked conflict with regard to issues such as gender and sexuality,...
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African Women’s Liberating Philosophies, Theologies, and Ethics
This volume explores the ethical and philosophical paradigms presented by most of the influential Matriarchs of the Circle of African Women...
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‘Cobblers and Rat-Catchers’: Formal Pew-Renters
According to each of the three synoptic gospels, the scribes and Pharisees ‘love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the...
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Kālīghāṭ and the Fashioning of Middle-Class Modernities
The upper middle classes have worked over the past century to transform the Hindu temple from a symbol of “backwardness” to a symbol of the modern...
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Divine Power and Fluid Bodies: Tirunaṅkais in Tamil Nadu
This article analyzes the complex ways in which religious practices influence the formation of identity and community among tirunaṅkai s,...
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The Transcendence of Desire A Theology of Political Agency
The “secular age” is not a smooth, untroubled process of accumulation and advance but an uneven and unpredictable series of clashes of interest....
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Islamist Movements: Evolution, Approaches and Contestation
This chapter explores the multifaceted dynamics of Islamist movements in the context of globalisation. The rise of Islamist movements in the 1970s is...
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Families and (Post) Modernism: Jewish Families in Israel
For more than three decades, scholars point to the fact that, in postindustrial societies, the process of individualization, which puts the...
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African Eco-feminisms: African Women Writing Earth, Gender and the Sacred
The chapter’s exposition highlights that African eco-feminisms are founded upon African cosmologies; African histories; and contemporary experiences...
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Religion, Gender, and Earth Categories in Lauri Kubuetsile’s But Deliver Us from Evil (2019)
But Deliver Us from Evil (2019), a creative postcolonial historical fiction by Lauri Kubuetsile, follows two women bound by grief and cruelty amid...
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Katie Geneva Cannon’s Cross-Cultural and Bridge-Building Womanist Ethics
The central focus of this chapter is on the concept of the human person as deserving dignity and respect, a theological claim upon which Katie Geneva...
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Theological Imagination and the Revival of Politics: Crisis and Critique
In this chapter, “Theological Imagination and the Revival of Politics: Crisis and Critique,” we turn to twentieth-century theology to recover a...