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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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They Say “Out of Sight, Out of Mind,” Look, We Are All over Palestine
Series: Decoloniality in PracticeTackling the homophobic deployment of religion requires using theological tools that expand interpretations of religious meanings and orients them to the suffering of queer communities.
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Empire and Race in Comparative Religious Ethics
Comparativists ought to ask how imperial and racial formations have shaped the settings within which peoples have acted and thought, regarding them not as wholly determinative but as nevertheless integral components of peoples’ ethical lives.
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Towards a Decolonial Approach to the Qur’an
A decolonial approach to the Qur’an also means de-Christianizing how we understand it as a text and its relationship to Muslims.
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Global Currents
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Eichmann Is Still in Jerusalem
It is as if Eichmann’s own tactics and exclusionary and eliminative ideology are alive and well, only now being used against Palestinians.
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The Apocalypse is Human-Made: Playing with Fire from Al-Aqsa to Gaza
The confluence of sacred times and spaces (national and religious) is explosive, and those pulling triggers and making decisions targeting religious celebrations may well be lighting the fuse.
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Uyghur Religious Heritage under China’s “Anti-Religious Extremism” Campaigns
China argues that government management of Uyghur culture is necessary to protect it from religious extremism. In fact the biggest threats to Uyghur heritage and culture are the policies of the Chinese government itself.
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Theorizing Modernities
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The Margins of “Queer Arts of Resistance” in Sub-Saharan Africa
Van Klinken’s major contribution to the debate is indeed his focus on the use of religiously inspired arguments to challenge homophobia.
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Religion, LGBTIQ+ Bodies, and Arts of Resistance in Africa
The narratives that LGBTIQ+ persons relay to van Klinken serve as data points that can then be used to show the folly of those who think LGBTIQ+ persons do not exist or are not worthy of receiving recognition.
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Love Bites
Van Klinken’s book is an astounding ero-ethnography in which the author grapples with the question of the research field as a site of desire and vulnerability.
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Field Notes
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Allama Shibli Nomani: An Architect of Modern Islamic Education
Shibli’s attempt to modernize madrasa education provided a durable impetus for social and educational reform within religious society, the impact of which is felt even today.
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Madrasa Discourses Free and Online
There is a fear that the Islamic scholarly debate is at risk of losing to the secular modern world.
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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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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 →