Heritage out of Control: Present Gods, Absent Nation
The sun had already set when the night-long live broadcast of a kohoḿbā kankāriya ritual in a Sri Lankan town begins. A larger-than-life image of the leading national…
Tag: Religion
Heritage out of Control: When Heritage Turns to Rubble
In December 2017, Toungouma was stolen, the famed stone said to render justice in the Département of Dogondoutchi, Niger. When it was found a few days later, the…
Heritage out of Control: Inheriting Love – Sensing in The Museum of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi (1207-1273)
“Muslims go to Mecca once, if they are not unnecessarily wealthy (laughing), but people of all kinds come to visit Mevlana [‘s musealized tomb] every year. Why? Because…
Heritage out of Control: RecycDisturbing Heritage
Disturbing Heritage The past is present through its lasting material forms, in open and hidden ways, marked and unmarked. Whether cherished, taken for granted or dismissed and left…
Stellungnahme von Werner Schiffauer zur DEVI-Studie: Bestandsaufnahme Konfrontative Religionsbekundungen in Neukölln.
von Prof. Dr. Werner Schiffauer, 25.01.2022 Die vollständige Stellungnahme als PDF Die Studie besteht im Wesentlichen aus der Wiedergabe von Zitaten bzw. der inhaltlichen Wiedergabe von Gesprächen mit…
Five New Year’s Rituals of Renewal
In Auckland, New Zealand, Māori people celebrate the rising of Mataraki, also known as the Pleiades star cluster, as the start of the new year in July. Hannah…
When Biblically Inspired Pseudoscience and Clickbait Cause Looting
Archaeologist and co-author Morag M. Kersel stands in one of thousands of looters’ pits at the Early Bronze Age cemetery of Bâb adh-Dhrâʿ in Jordan. Yorke M. Rowan…
The Age of Digital Divination
Divination rituals around the world often include animals, as seen in this early 20th-century painting of fortunetelling using a chicken by Russian artist Konstantin Makovsky. Brandmeister/Wi…
Positioning your position
In the picture above, you see me reading along with Hebrew psalms and prayers during a synagogue (shul) service on simchat torah. Simchat torah is a festive day…
What Netflix Got Wrong About Indigenous Storytelling
An Indigenous Pantaron Manobo man sports a pendant necklace imbued with sacred power. Andrea Malaya M. Ragragio Within days of its release last June, the Netflix animated series…
Intersections of Political Power, Religion, and Public Health in Africa: Covid-19, Tanzanian President Magufuli, and Nigerian Prophet T. B. Joshua by Laura A. Meek
This is the final piece in the Contested Truths series, which has been edited by Jia Hui Lee, Laura A. Meek, and Jacob Katumusiime Mwine-Kyarimpa. This series analyzes…
The Sisters of Loretto Share a Kinship With the Earth
The Sisters of Loretto, a women’s religious community, prioritize environmental stewardship at their working farm in rural Kentucky. Cody Rakes This month, global delegates have been gath…
Fetishes or Cyborgs? Religion as technology in the Afro-Atlantic space
(Editor’s Note: This blog post is part of the Thematic Series Data Swarms Revisited) Exú, the trickster god, Axé Ilé Oba – São Paulo (photo by Giovanna Capponi)…
El genocidio kurdo y la eterna resistencia como forma de vida
Read Time:14 Minute, 35 Second “De vez en cuando, la piedra perfora la piedra” Proverbio kurdo Este proverbio sirve como ejemplo …
Genocidios y ritos funerario: el eterno limbo
Read Time:12 Minute, 15 Second Hay una línea simbólica que une los acontecimientos humanos y que se traza en el lienzo de la cultu…
“Stop the Shot”: Resistance through Science, Religion, and Law
On August 4, an interesting event took place: “Stop the Shot”. This was a video press conference organized by the Truth for Health Foundation in the US, which…
Barney Bate’s book, Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=33334 Hannah Carlan interviews E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, and Constantine V. Nakassis Hannah Carlan: Bernard Bate’s posthumous book Protestant Textu…
Anna Corwin on her book, Embracing Aging
Interview by H. Keziah Conrad https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/embracing-age/9781978822276 H. Keziah Conrad: One of the central arguments you make in the book is that there is somethi…
El discordianismo, una religión diferente
Read Time:11 Minute, 48 Second La existencia de religiones satíricas es de sobra conocida: tenemos la religión pastafari, con su fa…
Five Solstice Sites That Aren’t Stonehenge
With the summer solstice approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, the site of Stonehenge is likely to pop up quite a bit on your news feeds. While that particular…
Yoram Bilu on his book, With Us More Than Ever
https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30536 Interview by Yael Assor Yael Assor: The book first came out in Hebrew and was then translated to English. I was wondering why did you decide to…
The Struggles of a “River People” in Assam
A member of the Mising, a tribal, Indigenous community in Assam, India, explains how erosion displaced people along the banks of the Brahmaputra River. Nimisha Thakur One night…
Sheena Kalayil discusses her book, Second-Generation South Asian Britons
Interview by Kim Fernandes https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498580038/Second-Generation-South-Asian-Britons-Multilingualism-Heritage-Languages-and-Diasporic-Identity Kim Fernandes: In your book,…
Can the Holy Spirit Be Livestreamed?
A pastor reaches out to his global congregants online to emphasize the importance of pandemic lockdowns. Pastor Samuel K Majok—Online Ministry Every Sunday, during her fieldwork, Cristina…