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Theological Reflections on Gaza from the Global South

Series: Theology after Gaza

Kwok Pui Lan
October 21, 2024

In our troubled times, Palestinian Christian women invite us to walk in love and continue to advocate for freedom, justice, and liberation for all.
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After Gaza, Standing Again at Sinai

Series: Theology after Gaza

Atalia Omer
October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

Returning to Sinai after Gaza amounts to a restorative justice praxis.
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Christian Zionism as Geopolitics and Public Theology: A Latin American Perspective

Series: Theology after Gaza

Nicolás Panotto
September 26, 2024September 30, 2024

The utopia Christian Zionism claims is nothing more than a teleological, fatalistic, and metaphysical vision of history, which blocks any possibility of movement, of liberation, of genuine redemption.
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Theorizing Modernities

Black Internationalist Dissent and the Black Sacred-as-Maroon Enclave

Taurean J. Webb
July 16, 2024September 30, 2024

To wrestle with this Morehouse-Biden-Palestine moment is to wrestle with the management of a Black internationalist thought project, already presumed fugitive, within a US higher education landscape.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about “Balkanization” (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Branko Sekuliċ
May 29, 2024September 30, 2024

Nationalism is not an ancient trait of the European Southeast. Rather, it is a classic Western European product.
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Antisemitism and Other Hates

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel

Dania Straughan
May 23, 2024September 30, 2024

The contemporary weaponization of antisemitism is the realization of an ethno-religious state project that purports the only way to imagine Jewish community is as an exclusionary political project predicated on the domination of Palestinians.
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Decoloniality

No Peace without Decolonization: A Lecture and Interview with Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Atalia Omer and Joshua S. Lupo
April 9, 2024April 9, 2024

Decolonial love is about the possibility of connection (and relation) when connection seems completely impossible.
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On the Advantage of Not Fitting In: Religious-National Identities as Border-Living

Slavica Jakelić
November 2, 2022February 1, 2024

Only when the Balkans are considered as succumbing to neither Northern nor Southern theoretical or praxis-oriented frameworks, can we ensure that all ways of being and living locally are truly listened to.
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The Myth of the Secular Revolutionary: On Fanon’s Religion

Series: Reconsidering Fanon and Religion

An Yountae
April 7, 2022February 1, 2024

Fanon’s critique of religion winds up being a powerful critique of the secular. Contrarily, Fanon seeks refuge in the secular in order to resignify the human but he ends up repurposing religion along the way.
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Field Notes

Mosques and Muslims in the “Evergreen City of India”: Exploring India’s Pluralism

Mohammad Ali
March 1, 2023January 24, 2024

Pluralism not only denotes a tolerance towards others, but also offers an opportunity to intermingle and exchange and thus mitigate difference.
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Faith-Based Education & Peacebuilding: A Teacher’s Call for Further Collaboration

Jenna Streich
December 21, 2021

In order to effectively counter any potential violence inflicted by religious schools, it is necessary that educator-peacebuilders in these institutions root themselves in the context of the school community and the lived experiences of the students and their families.
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COVID-19, Conspiracies, and Conceptions of Identity

Mary Kate Godfrey, Zulqernain Haider and Sidra Zulfaqar
December 6, 2021December 7, 2021

The sources of conspiracies are not religious beliefs but rather are the reservations and vulnerabilities a community already has towards the government, society, or another distrusted entity.
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Teaching Contending Modernities

Religious Nationalism: Narratives, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

Victoria Basug Slabinski and Prithvi Iyer
August 14, 2024September 30, 2024

This module provides an account of how religious nationalisms shape global politics and allows readers to examine the convergences and divergences among various forms of religious nationalism in diverse contexts.
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The Politics of the Gender, Sexuality, and Religion Nexus: Perspectives from the Margins

Victoria Basug Slabinski and Nicolas "Nicola" Chehade
April 1, 2024April 4, 2024

This module draws on the resources of the Contending Modernities blog to explore the interlocking dynamics of race, gender, sexuality, and coloniality in modernity.
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Religious Studies and Theology: Decolonial Perspectives in/on the Disciplines

Victoria Basug Slabinski
September 13, 2023February 1, 2024

This introduction to religious studies through a decolonial lens explores the contestation over the colonial Christian heritage of the field, the role of the secular in maintaining hegemonic Christian norms in the academy, and the importance of thinking interdisciplinarily about the future of the field.
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Featured Publications

Editors Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo examine the tenacious, lingering impact of European colonial ideology on religion and politics around the world in Religion, Modernity, and the Global Afterlives of Colonialism. Part of the Contending Modernities series through Notre Dame Press.

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Safety through Solidarity: The Fight Against Antisemitism

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Blog Leadership

Atalia Omer, CM Co-Director and Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies

Josh Lupo, CM Assistant Director

A Note on Published Content

The opinions expressed on this blog are solely those of the individual authors and do not represent the official opinions of the Contending Modernities research initiative, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, the Keough School of Global Affairs, the University of Notre Dame, or their faculty and staff.

Featured

Global Currents

Theological Reflections on Gaza from the Global South

After Gaza, Standing Again at Sinai

Christian Zionism as Geopolitics and Public Theology: A Latin American Perspective

Theorizing Modernities

Black Internationalist Dissent and the Black Sacred-as-Maroon Enclave

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about “Balkanization” (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Antisemitism and Other Hates

Decoloniality

No Peace without Decolonization: A Lecture and Interview with Nelson Maldonado-Torres

On the Advantage of Not Fitting In: Religious-National Identities as Border-Living

The Myth of the Secular Revolutionary: On Fanon’s Religion

Field Notes

Mosques and Muslims in the “Evergreen City of India”: Exploring India’s Pluralism

Faith-Based Education & Peacebuilding: A Teacher’s Call for Further Collaboration

COVID-19, Conspiracies, and Conceptions of Identity

Teaching Contending Modernities

Religious Nationalism: Narratives, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

The Politics of the Gender, Sexuality, and Religion Nexus: Perspectives from the Margins

Religious Studies and Theology: Decolonial Perspectives in/on the Disciplines

Research Areas

Madrasa Discourses

Science and the Human Person

Reexamining Religion and Modernities

Authority, Community, and Identity

Global Migration and the New Cosmopolitanism

Featured Publications

Upcoming Events

Safety through Solidarity: The Fight Against Antisemitism

Blog Leadership

A Note on Published Content