Religion Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/religion/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:21:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 After the Rebellion: Religion, Rebels, and Jihad in South Asia https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/after-the-rebellion-religion-rebels-and-jihad-in-south-asia/ Fri, 15 Feb 2019 18:04:19 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=3665 This essay addresses how the events of 1857–58 minoritized and racialized Indian Muslims, with particular attention to the use of jihad as a rhetorical concept in the colonial period.

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]]> Explorations in Islamic Feminist Epistemology https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/explorations-islamic-feminist-epistemology/ Thu, 01 Feb 2018 17:42:57 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=2988 Responsive to Elizabeth Castelli’s (2001) call to "trouble" and destabilize our categories of analysis in the study of religion and gender, this paper explores the feminist epistemological category of "experience," particularly as it relates to the study of Islam and Muslim societies.

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]]> When Angels Speak with Tanya Luhrmann https://humanitiesfutures.org/media/angels-speak-tanya-luhrmann/ Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:30:55 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=media&p=2306 This talk examines the phenomenological features of voice-hearing in different settings—religious and secular, modern and medieval. Prof. Tanya Luhrmann drew...

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]]> Black History, Islam, and the Future of the Humanities Beyond White Supremacy https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/black-history-islam-future-humanities-beyond-white-supremacy/ Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:57:34 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=1634 Interpreting Islam as a form of Black history offers a scholarly framework for reimagining the humanities beyond white supremacy. This paper theorizes such a framework first by showing how modern Black people in Africa and the African diaspora constructed Islam as a religion and civilization of resistance to Euro-American imperialism and anti-Black racism.

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