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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.

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.
Read More →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.
Read More →Fanon 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.
Read More →Tutu’s message was simple: God created us for freedom. This is a freedom that does not belong to one group of people more than another.
Read More →Tutu’s legacy is precisely in the hope that human beings will celebrate the image of God whose unity is known through diverse persons.
Read More →Tutu’s theology was simple: embrace the logic and the dreams of the margins.
Read More →Obadare’s insightful analysis outlines how new rulerships emerge in Africa’s yet unstable democracies while highlighting the nature of politics, power, legitimacy, and the evolution of democracy.
Read More →What this symposium encourage us to reflect on is how authority is maintained, challenged, and revoked in the modern world, and especially in postcolonial settings.
Read More →There is genuine concern among many Christians in the Middle East that “Freedom of Religious Belief” will be weaponized as a platform for populism, religious nationalism, and colonial interventions.
Read More →Pluralism not only denotes a tolerance towards others, but also offers an opportunity to intermingle and exchange and thus mitigate difference.
Read More →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.
Read More →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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