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Identity and Truth as Tools for Peacebuilding
As my peers in India and Pakistan are working towards updating their tradition, I will do the same in my faith community.
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The Tragedy of Otherness
As one of the first Americans these madrasa students had met, I felt enormous pressure to be a positive but accurate representative for the impossible-to-represent demographic of “American.”
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Sharing Madrasa Discourses at the United Nations
Before joining Notre Dame’s Madrasa Discourses project, Indian madrasa graduate Aadil Affan would have told you that accommodating or accepting…
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Theorizing Modernities
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The Dangerous Hope of Visceral Lament: A Response to Lynch, Ocobock, Cavanaugh and Maluleke
What the portraits of Born from Lament reveal is a theology and through that theology the possibility of a non-violent politics of solidarity and compassion born out of the deep experience of suffering in the world.
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Something Rotten in the State of Denmark: Katongole on Africa’s Gifts for the West
The choice for Katongole is not simply the choice between Africa and the West. The cure for Africa’s problems does indeed need to come from outside of Africa, but not from a Western state. It needs to come from God.
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The “Dark Continent” is Dead
After reading Born from Lament, I want to shout from the mountaintop that the “Dark Continent is dead!” Or at least the awful way we in the West describe Africa is dead.
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Global Currents
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The Social Fabric of Jerusalem: Memories in the Wake of Christian Exodus
When a plant or animal disappears, we expect the entire ecosystem to be impacted. We often forget that human communities form the same deep relationships.
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The Portland Samaritans and Politics Moving Forward
Namkai-Meche’s last words—reported by a woman who pulled off her shirt to tourniquet his wound—were, “Tell everyone on this train that I love them.” We love you, too.
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Prayer in Action: Supplication and Prayer in a Time of Crisis
Too often we have a distortion of spatiality, a separation of my group and myself from the other. By entertaining strangers we recognize that we are all created in the image of God, in radical love.
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Research Areas
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Muslim Humanities
The humanities since the nineteenth century have investigated language, music, art, literature, theology, and poetry. Muslims have long been participants in these rich intellectual traditions, as majorities or minorities in the past and present.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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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 →