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Field Notes
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The Modernity of Witchcraft Asylum Claims
It’s hard to understand why vodou remains so alien a concept to refugee adjudicators, particularly as the religious observance is so well documented by ethnographers and anthropologists.
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Modernity, Women, and War: Struggles for Peace and Democracy in the Middle East
While the discourse of spreading democracy to the Middle East goes hand in hand with “saving” women victims of Islamic fundamentalism, current wars create a destabilizing terrain for existing modern gender discourses.
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Pondering Theodicy in Education City
How can old tradition serve new knowledge creation? From a theological perspective, what happens when science begins to see human beings as it sees other animals, plants, and even inanimate matter?
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Theorizing Modernities
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Modernities and Religious Identity and Difference
Modernity is not simply a political and economic project, but more deeply a cultural one, in some ways a sacred or quasi-religious project.
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Understanding Religion in Light of Shifting Practice
“Religion” calls for rethinking the familiar models used to think of religion and public life: control, capitulation, co-optation, or rejection.
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Toward a Common Respectful Attentiveness to Religions
Christian Smith helps us see that people who are religious can more confidently lay our claim to a public sphere which is no longer a neutral, secular space.
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Global Currents
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The 2018 Fashion Exhibit at New York’s Met: Revealing Catholics to Themselves
The collection offers Catholics a chance to see themselves anew in a contemporary context of spiritual, sexual, and gender fluidity.
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Modernity as Theater of the Absurd
The embassy ceremony in Jerusalem embodied the merging of the cynical, ideological, and eschatological as well as Islamophobia (orientalism), Zionism, and antisemitism.
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“Love” and “Punishment” for Muslim Others
What recognitions and forms of mutuality are necessary for common life amid plurality?
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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 →