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Editors Robert W. Hefner and Zainal Abidin Bagir illuminate the less formal yet pervasive processes of lived pluralism in Indonesian Pluralities. Part of the Contending Modernities series through Notre Dame Press.
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Decoloniality
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On the Advantage of Not Fitting In: Religious-National Identities as Border-Living
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 ReligionFanon’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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Is Decolonial Theory Secular?: Lessons from Frantz Fanon
Series: Reconsidering Fanon and ReligionFanon never finds “religion” purely out there: he finds “religion” always in context of colonization and global coloniality; always taking unique forms in varied contexts of catastrophe.
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Global Currents
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A Jewish Perspective on Desmond Tutu’s Prophetic Dream for Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine
This is the starting point of Tutu’s challenge: Israel must recognize the God that is being worshipped in the land today is the God of conquest and not the God of liberation, and that they are not one in the same.
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The Pope Francis Effect in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Respect, Love, Compassion, Truth
This piece is co-published with the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa blog Pope Francis’s long-awaited trip to the Democratic…
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Revolutionary Dreams, Repressive Realities
Women stand at the forefront, driving this nation-wide revolt because there exists the deepest contradiction between their massive participation in social affairs and the patriarchal laws and denigrating regulations that seek to govern their bodies and appearances.
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Theorizing Modernities
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Methods of Theological Engagement in Who are My People?: A Response to Critical Questions
Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?I work with the assumption that the logic of the cross transforms both power and justice, both justice and mercy, into the reconciling love of God.
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Doing African Political Theology Outside the Box with Emmanuel Katongole
Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?The remarkable Christian individuals in the book are given significant attention because of their theological vitality and social agency.
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Religion and Broken Solidarities: A Conversation on Political Movements, the Literary Imagination, and Hope
What is revealed in these conversations is that challenging the structures that marginalize the most vulnerable in our society requires an intersectional analysis.
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Field Notes
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Mosques and Muslims in the “Evergreen City of India”: Exploring India’s Pluralism
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
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
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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Research Areas
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Madrasa Discourses
A conciliation of traditional Islamic thought with contemporary scientific and philosophical worldviews can result in orthodox affirmations of human dignity that are essential for peaceful coexistence in a pluralistic world.Read More →
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Science and the Human Person
Rapid advances in science and technology are raising fundamental questions about human life, flourishing, suffering, and death. These and other ethical questions at the intersection of science and the human person have a global character, encompassing all of humanity.Read More →
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Reexamining Religion and Modernities
Addressing resurgent populism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia in Euro-America requires integrating diverse approaches to the study of religion and modernity with insights from the critical study of race, nationalism, and peace.Read More →
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Global Migration and the New Cosmopolitanism
The global expansion of migration over the past two generations has ushered in major social and economic changes, as well as profound ethical challenges concerning how citizens are to coexist in pluralistic societies.Read More →