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"Beyond the Binary" reveals early Muslim jurists' ideas of gender
Nov 20 2024
Read an excerpt from "Beyond the Binary," an exploration of early Hanafi legal thought that reveals early Muslim jurists imagined a world built not on a binary distinction between male and female but on multiple intersecting hierarchies of gender, age, enslavement, lineage, class, and other social roles.
Sacred Activism: Muslim Women’s Quest for Gender Justice
Oct 31 2024
In a time when essentialist narratives are all too often imposed, "Women, Faith, and Family" challenges the dominant understanding of women’s rights in Muslim societies, recognizing faith-based activism as a powerful force in shaping gender discourse.
UC Press Welcomes the Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Oct 30 2024
The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture will be published by UC Press beginning in Spring 2025.
How California’s Dr. Bronner’s Spiritual Messaging Became a Global Brand
Oct 23 2024
Many of us are now familiar with Dr. Bronner’s. Yet behind this now popular brand lays a larger story of California as an important site for reconceptualizing communities of belief and belonging.
Interview with Emrah Yildiz, author of "Zainab's Traffic"
Oct 16 2024
Emrah Yıldız discusses the values—religious, political, economic, or social—behind the eight-hundred-mile journey across two international borders to the Sayyida Zainab shrine.
Understanding Christianity Through Magical Objects
May 22 2024
Ritual Boundaries is part of the Christianity in Late Antiquity Series.By Joseph E. Sanzo, author of Ritual Boundaries: Magic and Differentiation in Late Antique ChristianityWhat do you do when you get sick? What do you do when you are afraid?
A Window into the Early Modern Mediterranean, through the Fascinating Life of Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî
Dec 20 2023
By Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri, author of Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North AfricaWhen I first encountered the fascinating Moroccan polymath Ahmad ibn Qâsim al-Hajarî (c. 1569 - c.1640), I realized how the many threads of his life and career formulated a different
Q&A with Divya Cherian, author of Merchants of Virtue
Nov 17 2023
Winner of the 2022 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences, Merchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century wes
In pictures: how ancient rabbis upend “traditional” ideas of reproduction, gender, and humanity
Nov 16 2023
Below, author Rafael Rachel Neis provides a comic on When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis and the Reproduction of Species, a provocative and trailblazing work in the study of rabbinic literature. Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classification by late anci
Q&A with Rachel Ellis, author of In This Place Called Prison
Nov 13 2023
In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, talking with hundreds of incarcerated women, staff, and volunteers. Through their stories, Ellis