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At the Edge of Time: Postcolonial Temporalities in An Intimate Rebuke (2019)
Journal Article
Hawthorne, S. (2019). At the Edge of Time: Postcolonial Temporalities in An Intimate Rebuke. Journal of Africana religions, 7(2), 291-299. https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.7.2.2019.0291

In this response I challenge the neglect of postcolonial theory in Laura Grillo's An Intimate Rebuke: Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in Côte d'Ivoire and argue instead for its inclusion as a resource for immanent critique. I argue that G... Read More about At the Edge of Time: Postcolonial Temporalities in An Intimate Rebuke.

Inhospitable Landscapes: Disciplinary Territories and the Feminist "Paradigm Shift" (2018)
Journal Article
Hawthorne, S. (2018). Inhospitable Landscapes: Disciplinary Territories and the Feminist "Paradigm Shift". Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, 19, 36-55. https://doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v19i0.15

This paper examines Ursula King's claim in her edited volume Religion and Gender (1995) that introducing feminist gender-critical approaches in the study of religions constitutes a paradigm shift for the field/discipline. I will sketch a broadly posi... Read More about Inhospitable Landscapes: Disciplinary Territories and the Feminist "Paradigm Shift".

Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality (2013)
Journal Article
Hawthorne, S. (2013). Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality. Religion and Gender, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-00302002

This paper examines the uneasy intersection between ‘religion’, ‘gender’ and ‘postcoloniality’ as it is staged in the field of religion and gender. Noting the lack of sustained attention in the field to those postcolonial challenges that might questi... Read More about Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality.

An Outlaw Ethics for the Study of Religions: Maternality and the Dialogic Subject in Julia Kristeva’s 'Stabat Mater' (2013)
Journal Article
Hawthorne, S. (2013). An Outlaw Ethics for the Study of Religions: Maternality and the Dialogic Subject in Julia Kristeva’s 'Stabat Mater'. Culture and dialogue, 3(1), 127-151. https://doi.org/10.1163/24683949-00301010

In this essay I examine Julia Kristeva’s transgressive body of work as a strategic embodiment of, and argument for, an ethical orientation towards otherness predicated on the image of divided subjectivity identified by Jacques Lacan but powerfully re... Read More about An Outlaw Ethics for the Study of Religions: Maternality and the Dialogic Subject in Julia Kristeva’s 'Stabat Mater'.