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Tag Archives: Danish Cartoons
Scripture Made Me Do It: On Images of Mohammad and Scholarly Offence
by Matt Sheedy A recent article from CNN on the shootings in Garland, Texas outside an event sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative on May 3, 2015, provides a useful example of some of the pitfalls that often occur … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged American Freedom Defense Initiative, Charlie Hebdo, CNN, Danish Cartoons, Evelyn Alsultany, Garland, hadith, ISIS, Jack Shaheen, Judith Butler, Mahmood Mamdani, Mohammad, Saba Mahmood, Shiite, Sunni, Talal Asad, Texas, war on terror, Wendy Brown
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Charlie Hebdo, “Free Speech,” and Critique
by Matt Sheedy It should go without saying that the massacre of journalists and police officers in Paris this past Wednesday is abhorrent, that the perpetrators should be brought to justice, and that measures should be taken to reduce the … Continue reading
Posted in Matt Sheedy, Politics and Religion, Religion and Society, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda, Catholic Church, Charlie Hebdo, Daesh, Danish Cartoons, Front National, ISIL, ISIS, Je Suis Charlie, Juan Cole, Judith Butler, Karl Marx, Marine Le Pen, PEGIDA, Prophet Mohammad, Saba Mahmood, Shiite, Stephane Charbonnier, Sunni, Talal Asad, Ted Cruz, The Onion, Webb Keane, Wendy Brown
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Cartoons, Violence, and Matters of Class
By Matt Sheedy The discourse surrounding media events like the “Danish Cartoons” and Innocence of Muslims has largely focused on the issue of freedom of expression–at least in the “West,” where such putative categories prevail. For example, with the recent … Continue reading
Ways of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence
By A.T. Coates Haven’t we seen this before? When the so-called “Danish Cartoon Controversy” sparked protests around the world in 2005, American media outlets spoke vaguely and often about how the image offended “Muslim beliefs.” Seven years later, and again … Continue reading
Posted in A.T. Coates, Politics and Religion, Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Society, Religion and Theory, Religion in the News, Theory and Method
Tagged "Innocence of Muslims", blasphemy, Danish Cartoons, fundamentalism, Habitus, material culture, material religion, Saba Mahmood
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