World Religions
World Religions

Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 2 (Philipp Valentini)

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The following is the second installment of a three-part series.  The first can be found here. A non-Paulinian theology understands the Law not as a whole but as an indefinite set of rules where each rule is split between the conversations it opens on the meanings it expresses and the action it performs. The excess […]
World Religions

Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)

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The following article will be published in three installments. I am wondering if the agony of years Could be traced to the seed of an hour If the roots that spread out in the swamp Ran too deep for the issuing flower – Linton Kwesi Johnson, Poem of shape and motion (1998). The aim of […]
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Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 1 (Padraic Fitzgerald)

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The following is the first of a 3-part series. Biopolitics, as Michel Foucault argued, views populations through an economic lens, as capital to be preserved and multiplied to keep the nation or tradition afloat and strong. In the secular sphere, this concerns keeping the population healthy, numerous, and reproducing, largely through the promotion of an […]
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Renegade Hinduism Scholar Featured In Norton’s Anthology of World Religions

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The just-released, multi-volume Norton Anthology of World Religions is a major project of substance undertaken by a group of world-renowned scholars in comparative religions.   However, what makes it stand out is the contribution of Professor Kancha Ilaiah, who hails from an illiterate sudra shepherd family. In the four-level Hindu caste system the sudra are the […]