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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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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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Reconstructing Kiowa Cosmology: 7 Questions for Benjamin R. Kracht

May 30, 2018 Leave a Comment

Benjamin R. Kracht During the summer of 1935, field party director Alexander Lesser and five graduate students—Jane Richardson (Hanks), William Bascom, Bernard Mishkin, Donald Collier, and Weston LaBarre—interviewed approximately thirty-five Kiowas born in the mid-nineteenth century about indigenous Kiowa culture.

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