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CFP: “Women Advancing Knowledge Equity“ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Women Challenging Dominant Religious Practices and Expectations through Women-centered Traditions and Spiritualities (Working Title). WikiProject Women in Religion: Who We Are The WikiProject Women in Religion is an initiative to create, update, and improve Wikimedia content pertaining to the lives of cisgender and transgender women who are…
CrossCurrents Special Issue: “Calligraphers and Spiritualities Crossing Cultures“ This special issue of CrossCurrents seeks to explore contemporary calligraphers and works of lettering arts that bridge spiritualities and aesthetics across cultures and languages. These conversations can traverse many avenues, as suggested by the sampling of potential topics below. Contemporary calligraphy and lettering arts provide a rich…
Check out Zisl’s conversation on WBAI-NYC’s “Beyond the Pale” radio show. Friday, 12 May at 9.00am EST.
Ikh Bin De Sitra Akhra by Shterna Goldbloom. Used courtesy of the artist
Guest edited by Johan Roeland Many of us love gardening: being outside, assisting in acts of creation, enjoying the beauty of fresh flowers, and becoming ecstatic over those first glimpses of new growth in the spring. At the same time, small-scale farming and local gardening can be activities for alternative socio-political action, as community gardens…
7-21 July, New York City Memorials and monuments are contested spaces. Memoirs are a popular genre in publishing. Memories often make or break court cases. Many people fear losing memory as they grow older. One scholar has discussed “religion as a chain of memory”; certainly the myths and rituals of religious traditions help us remember,…
This issue brings together work situated at the intersection of the three terms of the title: How are queer Muslims represented in media? How does media allow an alternative space for queer Muslims? Is Muslim belief and practice influenced by media production? How might a religious tradition such as Islam reconfigure what we mean by queer, especially as queer…
This past year saw radical changes in socio-political life around the world. In the midst of this, The Association for Religion and Intellectual Life is also in the midst of several transformations.
The Board of Directors of APRIL are excited to announce a new website, AprilOnline.org. The site will be the centerpiece for a number of new ventures for the organization.