Project MUSE®: CrossCurrents - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/784
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in CrossCurrents.daily12026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 58 (2008) through current issueLatest Articles: CrossCurrentsTWOProject MUSE®CrossCurrents1939-38810011-1953Latest articles in CrossCurrents. Feed provided by Project MUSE®"Overturning the Cement Slabs": Understanding Bi- and Multiracial Artists' Work Through Gloria Anzaldúa's Autohistoria-teoría
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987590
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In her posthumously published text, Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality, Gloria Anzaldúa develops her philosophical perspective by weaving together personal narratives and theory that is heavily influenced by concepts of social identity, spirituality, and social justice. As a queer Chicana coming from a working-class background, much of Anzaldúa's writing is positioned within and seeks to bring awareness to the margins. In the chapter "Geographies of Selves—Reimagining Identity: Nos/Otras (Us/Other), las Nepantleras, and the New Tribalism" she articulates how narrow and fixed identity categories do not resonate with her experience and posits that identity is more fluid. For
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/784/image/coversmall"Overturning the Cement Slabs": Understanding Bi- and Multiracial Artists' Work Through Gloria Anzaldúa's Autohistoria-teoría2026-04-14text/htmlen-US"Overturning the Cement Slabs": Understanding Bi- and Multiracial Artists' Work Through Gloria Anzaldúa's Autohistoria-teoría2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®727462026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Interruption and Restoration: Memory Work in Secondhand Circulation
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987589
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On a gorgeously sunny Friday morning in May 2022, I arrived at an African Methodist Episcopal church in Chicago's Edgewater neighborhood. I was not there to worship, attend a community meeting, or volunteer with a ministry. I was there because the church was closing and liquidating its contents. Material objects amassed over time by the congregation were for sale; vestiges of lived religion, now cast off as sacred waste.1A man named Mark was meeting me there, an ethnographic collaborator I had come to know well over the preceding year. Mark is an antiques collector and reseller; he scavenges estate sales, thrift stores, and auctions in search of donated, discarded, and passed over materials that he might add to his
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/784/image/coversmallInterruption and Restoration: Memory Work in Secondhand Circulation2026-04-14text/htmlen-USInterruption and Restoration: Memory Work in Secondhand Circulation2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®703612026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Entrusted, Blind: On the Art Museum as Unwitting Sacred Space
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987591
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How do human beings inhabit history? How are our cosmic intuitions (that is, intuitions of an order, literally, a cosmos [κόσμος]) manifest in the marks we make? What are the shapes of the paths we leave behind us?And how do we move? Do we have a telos—an end toward which we're destined? Do we move in natural cycles like the seasons, rising and declining in a constant give and take? Or do we wander blindly through the universe, gesturing madly until the sun darkens? What is our story, and does it involve something larger than us?Above all, are we apt judges of ourselves, able to both understand our past motives and map our trajectories? Or are we unconsciously moved, in spirals and fractals like foraging birds,1
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/784/image/coversmallEntrusted, Blind: On the Art Museum as Unwitting Sacred Space2026-04-14text/htmlen-USEntrusted, Blind: On the Art Museum as Unwitting Sacred Space2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®537362026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Kindness, Compassion, Love, and Generosity at a Time of Mass Killing: The Musar Teachings of Rabbi Amy Eilberg
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987592
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The history of Jewish ethics is filled with reflections on altruistic virtues including kindness, compassion, love, and generosity. These virtues are discussed throughout Jewish literature, especially within the genre known as musar ("moral" or "ethical") literature—literature focused directly on virtues, vices, and the development of moral character.1 One notable historic movement that gave particular attention to the cultivation of these virtues was the Musar movement, a nineteenth-century Orthodox movement in Lithuania that focused not only on the study of musar literature but also on "musar practice," practical approaches to developing moral character.2 The Musar movement's legacy of attending to practical
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/784/image/coversmallKindness, Compassion, Love, and Generosity at a Time of Mass Killing: The Musar Teachings of Rabbi Amy Eilberg2026-04-14text/htmlen-USKindness, Compassion, Love, and Generosity at a Time of Mass Killing: The Musar Teachings of Rabbi Amy Eilberg2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®798472026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Feminist Theology and Social Justice: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima by Mahjabeen Dhala (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987593
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Mahjabeen Dhala's book, Feminist Theology and Social Justice, is a groundbreaking work in Islamic feminism. It examines the Fadaki sermon of Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, to present theological, historical, and political perspectives on premodern Muslim women. Dr. Dhala aims to transform Fatima from being a "revered saint" in Shia Islam to becoming an "inspiration for reform, challenging current unjust systems, and acting for equity in households, communities, and nations" (62). The structure of this book is clear and organized, and each chapter contains a specific thesis that is well supported and argued.The opening chapter is subdivided into three parts, each exploring different layers of Fatima's
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/784/image/coversmallFeminist Theology and Social Justice: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima by Mahjabeen Dhala (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USFeminist Theology and Social Justice: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima by Mahjabeen Dhala (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®88102026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Orphism at the Guggenheim: The encounter with the Tower
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987594
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One of the best places to be on an afternoon in 2025 was the sun-disk dominated show at the Guggenheim: Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930. The show includes ninety colorful artworks created by an international group of 26 artists working (mostly) in Paris over a very short period and united by a common interest in color theories and impressions of modern life. French poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire (1980-1918) christened the emerging movement after the lyre-playing poet Orpheus. Orphism was the early twentieth-century off-shoot of Cubism and Futurism, and it came out of desire to create a total artwork that would combine music, poetry and painting and to create a work of art that would
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/784/image/coversmallOrphism at the Guggenheim: The encounter with the Tower2026-04-14text/htmlen-USOrphism at the Guggenheim: The encounter with the Tower2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®190732026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14Unborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency by Margaret D. Kamituka (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/987595
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Why has so little attention been given to the afterlife of unborn bodies? Margaret Kamitsuka takes up this important, unsettled question in Unborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency. The Christian tradition's lack of attention to a doctrine of resurrection in cases of fetal loss is both remarkable and lamentably unsurprising. One struggles to understand the lacuna surrounding resurrection and pregnancy loss given the church's (and state's) investment in reproductive decision making—on the issue of a woman's choice and the status of fetuses, and, in today's world, embryos. On the other hand, one understands this omission clearly given the low regard for women's agency and authority within dominant
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-16T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/784/image/coversmallUnborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency by Margaret D. Kamituka (review)2026-04-14text/htmlen-USUnborn Bodies: Resurrection and Reproductive Agency by Margaret D. Kamituka (review)2026-04-142026TWOProject MUSE®97722026-05-16T00:00:00-05:002026-04-14