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The first volume in the Contending Modernities series through Notre Dame Press, Inclusive Populism by Angus Ritchie draws on community organizing to map a way forward out of our current political crisis.
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Decoloniality
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Decolonizing Comparative Theology
Decolonial comparative theology examines hybrid formations engaged in material struggle against neoliberalism and neocolonialism in religious studies and in the broader spiritual marketplace.
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Heretical Histories of Liberation: Black Liberation Theology, Historical Materialism, and the Making of Black Freedom
Refusing to excise the theological from black radical thought would go a long way toward resolving the anxiety around religion, spirituality, and the mythic in historical materialist circles.
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Taking a Critical Indigenous and Ethnic Studies Approach to Decolonizing Religious Studies
When we dehumanize Indigenous peoples at the level of epistemology, the endogenous study of Indigenous knowledge is rendered illegible. Even impossible.
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Global Currents
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France: A Sacred Union against Terrorism or against Muslims?
Series: Secularism in FranceThe main aim of the establishment becomes clear: to foreclose the emergence of other interpretations of the tragic murder. To use all means possible to prevent the meeting of the two angers (white anger and the anger of racialized populations) and the possibility of their convergence. These must be separated and partitioned.
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From Danish Cartoons to French Separatism: Mobilizing Culture Wars
Series: Secularism in FranceThe question was never about free speech per se; it was about what we, as Europeans, considered to be sacred in the public sphere, and how we, as Europeans, continually redraw the lines of inclusion and exclusion in our political, social, and cultural spaces.
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Remembering Swami Agnivesh—Advocate for Interreligious Solidarity and Social Justice
Swami Agnivesh was a committed nonviolent activist and consciously modeled the many peace marches he undertook throughout his life on the pacifist resistance campaigns of Gandhi.
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Theorizing Modernities
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Beyond Analogy
Series: Policing AnalogiesSolidarity is a practice, an action, whose condition of possibility is the messy materiality of social difference, not its flattening.
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Response to Gendered Morality Symposium
Series: Symposium on Gendered MoralityI do not want to throw out the akhlaq texts because I think they do help us think about what it means to live a good life. I just think that we may be better off taking their questions as important ones to be answered, without adopting their answers.
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Hierarchy, Interdependence, and Islamic Ethics
Series: Symposium on Gendered MoralityThe understanding of humans as interconnected in their striving towards ethical excellence carries tremendous potential as a foundational story for the narratives that Muslim feminists construct about human flourishing.
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Field Notes
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Literature, Theology, and Abul Kalām Āzād
Series: Madrasa DiscoursesTo think critically means one has to closely study one’s surroundings and look at things in unprecedented ways. We know that the voice of literature has the power to create such new ways of seeing.
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Madrasa Discourses Goes to Bangladesh
Series: Madrasa DiscoursesAt the end of the workshop, it was clear that there was enthusiastic interest in both the topics and approach adopted by Madrasa Discourses. It was also clear that there were unique challenges as well as possibilities that might come with expanding the existing program to include Bangladesh.
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Why Madrasa Graduates Should Study Modern Science and Philosophy: Reflections on an Ongoing Debate on Madrasa Discourses in India
Series: Madrasa DiscoursesThere is a need to have a serious discussion on epistemology in order to rebuild the Islamic tradition in a new manner that is robust and coherent on the one hand, and on the other, is flexible enough to adapt to changing circumstances that future generations are bound to encounter.
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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 →