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SM Podcast: Sahil Badruddin Interviews Wajahat Ali

February 12, 2019 Leave a Comment

Sahil Badruddin interviews Wajahat Ali in Sacred Matters podcast.

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Muslim Women Resist: How Mona Haydar Counters Difference through Rap

February 06, 2019 Leave a Comment

Lamiae Aidi Through the lens of media as a form of pedagogy that shapes people’s identities and personas, the music video is a response to stereotypes of a subcategory of Muslim women that is represented as a problematic difference. It reminds women to voice their choice, it reiterates the same message as World Hijab Day.

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An Interview with Jason Francisco, Part 1: Photographing the “Sacred” in “Alive and Destroyed”

January 22, 2019 Leave a Comment

  Jason Francisco received his MFA in Photography from Stanford University in 1998 and is presently an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at Emory University. Professor Francisco’s photography spans a variety of subjects and themes, but several of

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The Devil’s in the Details: The Krampus Conundrum

December 21, 2018 Leave a Comment

Madison Tarleton Accusations of blood libels and ritual murders only heightened suspicions that Jews were demonically possessed and were most evidently non-Christian beings, perhaps even sub-human.

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Suicide: The Last Taboo?

December 10, 2018 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman I am still hesitant to pursue it in my class—perhaps because of the feeling that it is “taboo”; perhaps because a lingering sense that only “professionals” should be talking about it. It is highly, highly charged for so many of us. As one student put it, “trigger warnings were made for this topic.”

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Thanksgiving Rites and Wrongs: Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and the American Imagination

November 19, 2018 Leave a Comment

D. F. Sebastian The contrast between the practices of modern and archaic thanksgiving rites gives us insight into the broader imagination behind how our society is constructed.

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With the Dead in Paradise: American Memorial Day, Floating Lanterns, and Free-Floating Spirituality

November 05, 2018 Leave a Comment

Gary Laderman The dead are with us. At least that’s what most religious cultures tell us.

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The Body of Fried Chicken and the Blood of Bud Light: Religion Around the Tailgate Table

October 01, 2018 Leave a Comment

Madison Tarleton The relationship that the tailgating participants have not only with one another but with the event itself allows them to create a countered “sacred space” to the mundane routines of work and daily life.

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Disney’s Christopher Robin and the Idolatry of Work

August 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

Daniel Anderson Tragically, Christopher Robin’s life seemingly proves Adorno’s adage that a “wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”

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The Ghost of Roy Orbison Goes on Tour

August 23, 2018 Leave a Comment

Peter Lehman He seemed to be defined by an absence, which then materialized as a dark, quiet persona who always kept his eyes covered in public, inviting people to project their thoughts, fears and melancholy onto him.

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