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Vedantam vs. Venus: Drag, Impersonation, and the Limitations of Gender Trouble
Drawing on the seminal work of feminist and queer theorist Judith Butler, this article compares the practice of gender impersonation in the South...
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‘It’s Giving … Colonization’: Challenges to Mental Resilience for Diasporic Christian Pacific Youth
This chapter reflects on the pressures and challenges being faced by diasporic Pacific youth. Organizing her reflections around an episode of the...
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Speak Dhamma But Carry A Big Stick: Violence in Early Buddhist Discourse
In kee** with the theme of Religion and the (De)legitimation of Violence, this chapter, on the Cula-Saccaka Sutta (“The Shorter Discourse to...
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Conclusions: Anti-Jewish Narratives in the Service of Political Agendas
After decades of violence between Israel and the Resistance movement, both sides believe to “know the enemy”. In the face of war, destruction and...
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Wisdom and Meaningful Aging
Ricca Edmondson addresses the significance of wisdom for dealing with challenges and adversity in later life and highlights contributions that wisdom...
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Seeking Authenticity
According to Fielder and Ezzy (2018), authenticity is a key ethic driving LGBTQA+ to seek identity integration. Authenticity is explored in this...
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Introduction
The authors describe the protests of Job, explain the nature of interfaith dialogue, and outline the project for the book.
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Final Remarks
In the opening chapters, I highlighted two historiographical problems common to Haskalah and Enlightenment research. The first “structural” problem...
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The Yogavāsiṣṭha and the Philosophy of the Absurd: A Hindu Response to the Heart’s Cry
In this article, I call attention to the Yogavāsiṣṭha’s depiction of Rāma’s existential crisis and Vasiṣṭha’s various methods for resolving it....
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Sexual Identity, Gender Ideology, and Religious Freedom: The Tug of War over ‘Who We Are’ Schools as Battlegrounds
The Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County (2020) represents a dramatic turn in American law and culture: The Supreme Court...
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Interpretation of Baladeva and Yamunā at Harivaṃśa 83
In Harivaṃśa chapter 83, Kṛṣṇa’s brother Baladeva changes the course of the river Yamunā, using his plough. This article reviews previous...
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Learning from Loss?
This chapter underlines the profoundly traumatic impact of the events of July 2016 in Turkey and their aftermath for Gülen and for Hizmet. It gives...
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Aikido’s Spirituality and Transplantation in the Nordic Countries: Spirituality in the Asian Martials Art
The chapter discusses how four senior Nordic aikidoka view Aikido’s history in the Nordic countries, Aikido’s relationship to religion and...
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Come with Old Khayyam and Leave the Wise to Talk
In the last 30 years, many ecophilosophies have come and gone. Visions of ecological reform and re-alignment have been rolling plentifully off the...
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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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Hindu Apologist or Modern Reformer? Arvind Sharma on Hindu Women
Using a case study of Arvind Sharma’s thinking on striyaḥ (women), a subject he claims he has not written about aside from the topic of sati , this...
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New Paths for the Theological and the Fetishistic
For Giorgio Agamben, the substitutability of the fetish is the result of its ambiguity, causing it to be unpossessable as well. For him, the fetish’s...
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An Observational Classification of Spirits
Here we build on the concepts presented in Chap. 2 to provide operationally derived definitions for key terms...
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Off the Baptist Path: Christian Becoming in Indigenous Amazonia
By looking at a series of accusations of Pentecostalism launched by some Baptist Ye’kwana pastors against other congregations in 2017, this article...