“If God wants her to get better, she will get better,” Nila said in a comforting way. 1 We were
in a major public hospital in the city of Banda Aceh, standing at the bedside of a young …

Discourse is the typical modus operandi for persuasive practices, but silence also has an
important role to play in many religious contexts. In this essay, I examine how silence works …

For democracy to function, sometimes—even often—people must be ignored, not silenced.
In this paper, we turn to US school board meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic to …

“Silence is the message” said brother Arul Das, pausing from his painting to respond to us.
We were preparing a letter for the family of Francis Acharya, a Belgian Cistercian monk who …

In the middle of Benjamin Tausig's (2019) Bangkok Is Ringing: Sound, Protest, and
Constraint, amid the clamor of crowds protesting military suppression and the voices of …

“I'm in the wheelchair only out of volition. It's not that I need it. I could also walk. But then,
then everything would be much slower,” 89-year-old Tova 1 interjected just as I was leaving …