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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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The Search for Justice, Liberation, and Humanity in the Life and Work of Desmond Tutu
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.
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Transnational Solidarity, Israel/Palestine, and the Intellectual Legacies of Desmond Tutu
Tutu’s legacy is precisely in the hope that human beings will celebrate the image of God whose unity is known through diverse persons.
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Desmond Tutu: A Much-Loved, Deeply Disturbed, and Offensive Prophet
Tutu’s theology was simple: embrace the logic and the dreams of the margins.
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Theorizing Modernities
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Pentecostal Power and Politics in the Clerical State
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.
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Introduction to Symposium on Pastoral Power, Clerical State
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.
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Toward a New Discourse on Middle Eastern Christianity
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.
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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 →