2026/05/22 by Roy Cherian · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #African cultural and philosophical studies #Biblical Studies and Interpretation #Theological Perspectives and Practices
paper · doi:10.62307/srj.v10i2.139
openalex publication_date 2026/05/22 · openalex created_date 2026/05/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/24
In this review of Gil Anidjar's On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal I gesture towards interventions in relation to Black studies and the anthropology of religion and secularism. More precisely, I will consider how Anidjar’s meditation on (un)mothering can help us appreciate how the secular is a tradition like any other, reproduced by a mode of mothering that is not only particular, but perhaps also peculiar.