Spencer Dew
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 449688 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Spencer Dew |
| NOMBRES | Spencer |
| APELLIDO | Dew |
| FIRMA | DEW S |
| AFILIACIONES | Centenary College of Louisiana |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-8677-4163 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
A Clash of Laws
REPRESENTING GOD: CHRISTIAN LEGAL ACTIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLAND. By Méadhbh McIvor. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. In England, the Church of England is the state church, yet many Christians still see themselves as a persecuted minority in a “hostile world” (25). One very real reason behind this self-understanding is a recognition of the ways “in which the law’s preference for establishment Anglicanism gives way to a universal ‘ri…
Naked Truth
THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY. By Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie. Translated by Alison L. Strayer. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2024 (2005). Pp. 114. Paperback, $20.66. Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux and her lover Marc Marie developed a practice during her treatment for breast cancer, wherein they would take photographs of “the devastated landscape that remains after lovemaking”—the mix of clothes discarded, in haphazard fashion, across the floor—and, weeks…
A King Like ME. Directed by Matthew O.Henderson. 2024. Netflix
“Cold Revolution”
Sovereign Tensions
SACRED KINGSHIP IN WORLD HISTORY: BETWEEN IMMANENCE AND TRANSCENDENCE.. Edited by A. Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. Pp. xiv + 390. Paperback, $40.00. This bold comparative project is arranged around the argument that, in the Axial Age, there was a widespread shift from immanentist to transcendentalist framings of the world, a transformation in worldview that led to “a revolution in cultural order,” notab…
Words on Race
SLAVEROAD. By John Edgar Wideman. New York: Scribner, 2024. Pp. 224. Paper, $28.99. In one of John Edgar Wideman's shorter stories, collected in his 2021 volume Look for Me and I'll be Gone, the reader is led through a discussion of language and its “confusing” nature. Wideman unspools a vernacular contemplation of etymology: “Figment a funny word . . . A fig a fruit and I can almost see one when I read the word fig. But ment. What's meant by men…
Sovereign. 2025. Written and directed by Christian Swegal. Streaming
Immunocapitalism
NECROPOLIS: DISEASE, POWER, AND CAPITALISM IN THE COTTON KINGDOM By Kathryn Olivarius. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. Pp. 352. Paper $21.95. Epidemiology is necessarily political; human disease is entangled with human social institutions and constructs. Epidemiology thus involves, always, an examination of social inequality. As Olivarius puts it, the history of yellow fever in New Orleans was one of “wealth for the few, and misery…
EL Conde. Directed by PabloLarraín. Fabula Productions, 2023
centers female figures in his rendition.Despite their subversive potential, biblical comics do not by necessity challenge dominant readings of texts.In her second case study, Domeney-Lyttle examines biblical comics in manga style produced by Christian publishers.Even though manga relies on dramatic moments and heightened emotion and could subversively reread the HB, the comics examined here reinscribe patriarchal readings, specifically the view o…
Heretic. Written and directed by ScottBeck and BryanWoods. Released by A24, 2024
The Stare Down
Contemporary Taínos protested the 2021 sale, by Christie's auction house, of sacred ancestral pieces. This essay focuses on one prolific Taíno media creator and behike (or shaman), Luis Ramos, and his role in these protests and his theological and metaphysical interpretations of the protests as, though they did not succeed in stopping the auction, a "win" for the Taíno community. For Ramos, this "win" hinges on Taíno theories of media that allow …
Lakota Nation VS. United STATES. Documentary film. Dir. Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli. 2023
This remarkable documentary explores the history of the Lakota people, focusing, as the title implies, on their battles, military and legal, with the United States. Narrated by Layli Long Soldier, and including interspersed readings of her poetry, the film relies on a series of techniques that draw the viewer into an experience of indigenous resistance, trauma, and spirituality. The first is accomplished via juxtaposition. Moments in Lakota histo…
Introduction to the Symposium
Sacred Funk
Borderlands Curanderos
Reviewed by: Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo by Jennifer Koshatka Seman Spencer Dew Jennifer Koshatka Seman, Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021) "Un Problema Para La Medicina"—"A Problem for Medicine"—ran one headline about curandera Teresa Urrea in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The phrase offers…
The State “Don’t Own a Goddamn Thing”
The nature-based religion of MOVE, most known for being victims of the violence of the state, also offer an exemplification of the use of the legal system by religious groups – the religification of law, wherein the legal system is seen as transcending the state and thus a potential check on the state’s power
Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don’t Say
American Religion 2, no. 2 (Spring 2021), pp. 142–144 Copyright © 2021, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.2.10 Book Review Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020) Spencer Dew Wittenberg University, Springfield, USA and Ohio State University, Columbus, USA When, in the late 1990s, I taught col…
The Aliites
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Sole Property and Domain
The contemporary Puerto Rican Taíno movement, on both the archipelago and the US mainland, is predicated on claims to indigenous identity understood as explicitly religious (a matter of “sacred” beliefs and practices) but also always legal (and thus as an orientation toward legal activism, seeking recognition from the state of their indigenous status). The Jatibonicu Taíno Nation of Boriken is unique in its emphasis on intellectual property law, …
Look and See
Wild Wild COUNTRY. Six‐part television documentary series. Created by Chapman and Maclain Way. Produced by Netflix, 2018
Waco. Television. Six‐episode miniseries. Directed by JohnErick Dowdle and DennieGordon. The Paramount Network, 2018
Come Sunday. Movie. Directed by JoshuaMarstonNetflix, 2017
Luke Cage. Television. Created by CheoHodari Coker. Netflix, 2016
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Jodorowsky's Dune. Film. Directed by FrankPavich. High Line Pictures, 2013
Alejandro Jodorowsky (director of El Topo and The Holy Mountain) wanted his adaptation of Dune to be, in his words, “a prophet.” This documentary explores his vision for this never-realized project. Springing from Frank Herbert's story of a messianic savior from a far-flung land famous for its consciousness-expanding spice, Jodorowsky wanted to create a religious experience through cinema. And such experience began with those taking part in the f…
Godzilla. Film. Directed by GarethEdwards. A Legendary Pictures Production, 2014
Juanita Mayo Richardson Bey
A leading yet little-studied figure in the first generation of the Moorish Science Temple of America movement, Juanita Mayo Richardson Bey was editor of the group's newspaper, literary educator, and religious poet. Analysis of the textual legacy of Richardson Bey shows evidence of a model of leadership that contrasts starkly with that of the religion's founder, Prophet Noble Drew Ali. While Ali focused on maintaining ideological control and doctr…
Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah
African American members of the Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah religious movement claim to be legal heirs to the land annexed by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. The Washitaw frame and advance this claim via legal discourse based upon counterfactual religious readings of the law, which they take to be universal, authoritative, and efficacious. The latter view, shared by various related communities, draws further validation from ev…
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus. Film. Directed by SpikeLee. Distributed by Gravitas Ventures, 2014
Exodus
“Moors Know the Law”
Among the many individuals and groups espousing affiliation with the Moorish Science Temple of America movement, some continue founding prophet Noble Drew Ali's emphasis on engaging in American citizenship as a religious duty, while others interpret the prophet's scriptures to lend authority to claims of being outside the jurisdiction of American legal authority. Such sovereign Moors, whose actions range from declaration of secession to rejection…
Taxi Film. Written and Directed by JafarPanahi. Jafar Panahi Film Productions, 2015
This remarkable film, covertly shot on the streets of Tehran as the director, violating house arrest, poses as a cabbie, will be of interest to those teaching courses on the Middle East, Iran, or the broader intersection of religion and politics. Turning state surveillance back on itself through the cab's hidden cameras, highlighting the underground art economy with a progression of dealers of bootlegged films and music, and ridiculing notions of…
Luke Cage. Television. Created by CheoHodari Coker. Netflix, 2016
Hours
The Crown. Television. Created by PeterMorgan. Netflix, 10 episodes, 2016
Deering Family Galleries of Medieval and Renaissance Art, Arms, and Armor. Visual art exhibition. Chicago, IL
Assassin's Creed. Film. Directed by JustinKurzel. Sony Pictures, 2016
Look and See
Wild Wild COUNTRY. Six‐part television documentary series. Created by Chapman and Maclain Way. Produced by Netflix, 2018
Waco. Television. Six‐episode miniseries. Directed by JohnErick Dowdle and DennieGordon. The Paramount Network, 2018
Come Sunday. Movie. Directed by JoshuaMarstonNetflix, 2017
The Aliites
Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan
Sole Property and Domain
The contemporary Puerto Rican Taíno movement, on both the archipelago and the US mainland, is predicated on claims to indigenous identity understood as explicitly religious (a matter of “sacred” beliefs and practices) but also always legal (and thus as an orientation toward legal activism, seeking recognition from the state of their indigenous status). The Jatibonicu Taíno Nation of Boriken is unique in its emphasis on intellectual property law, …
The State “Don’t Own a Goddamn Thing”
The nature-based religion of MOVE, most known for being victims of the violence of the state, also offer an exemplification of the use of the legal system by religious groups – the religification of law, wherein the legal system is seen as transcending the state and thus a potential check on the state’s power
Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don’t Say
American Religion 2, no. 2 (Spring 2021), pp. 142–144 Copyright © 2021, The Trustees of Indiana University • doi: 10.2979/amerreli.2.2.10 Book Review Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020) Spencer Dew Wittenberg University, Springfield, USA and Ohio State University, Columbus, USA When, in the late 1990s, I taught col…
Introduction to the Symposium
Sacred Funk
Borderlands Curanderos
Reviewed by: Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo by Jennifer Koshatka Seman Spencer Dew Jennifer Koshatka Seman, Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021) "Un Problema Para La Medicina"—"A Problem for Medicine"—ran one headline about curandera Teresa Urrea in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The phrase offers…
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