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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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Religion, Politics, and Trump’s Christian Nationalism
It was not a Christian ethic that drew conservative Christians to Donald Trump, but rather a sense of political tribalism and a base transactionalism.
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A Good Apology? Pope Francis’s Acknowledgment of Abuse in Canadian Indian Residential Schools
The good apology must go beyond complicity by recognizing culpability in wrongdoing and harm.
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Beyond the West: Nationalism, Religious Literacy, and the War in Ukraine
Western interpretations on the war in Ukraine commonly ignore the importance of both nationalism and religion, even though such elements…
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Theorizing Modernities
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Sacralizing State Politics: Why Does it Matter?
When Politics are Sacralized seeks to comparatively reveal racially based nationalist-religious claims, along with the social, cultural, and political articulations of those claims and their significance.
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When Politics are Sacralized: Religion and Nationalism in Zimbabwe
The fusion between religion and nationalism is not inherent or necessary. It is an instrumentalist relationship that is used to justify and legitimate particular political policies, actions, and imaginaries.
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When Politics are Sacralized?
At its core, Zionism is not the political being sacralized, but the religious being politicized.
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Field Notes
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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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Madrasa Discourses in Hindsight
At the end of the first iteration of the program, it can be said without doubt that Madrasa Discourses has helped madrasa graduates in a number of fundamental way
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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 →