Sep 13, 2022
Dr. Elizabeth Bucar is the Director of Sacred Writes, Professor
of Religion, and Dean’s Leadership Fellow at Northeastern
University. An expert in comparative religious ethics who has
published on topics ranging from gender reassignment surgery to the
global politics of modest clothing, Bucar’s current book, Stealing
My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation, is on the ethics
of religious appropriation. She is also the author of the
award-winning trade book,
Pious Fashion: How Muslim
Women Dress (Harvard University Press, 2017).
Bucar’s public scholarship includes bylines in
The Atlantic,
The Los Angeles Times,
Teen Vogue, and
Zocalo Public Square as well as several
podcasts. She has a PhD in religious ethics from the University
of Chicago’s Divinity School. Follow her on Twitter
@BucarLiz.
Link to her Pious Fashion episode on NBN:
https://newbooksnetwork.com/141-on-pious-fashion-and-muslim-women