The Shabbat Massacre Is Not Merely About Religion
The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.
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Modernity as Theater of the Absurd
Series: Jerusalem
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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The Hybridities of Hijabi Barbie: A CM Book Symposium on “Brand Islam”
Series: Brand Islam
Widespread product “halalization” contributes to novel modes of self-described piety, yet implies a pro-consumptive “deregulation” of religion.
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Bridging Ethnoreligious Divides in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Choosing Peace Together through Interreligious Action for Conflict Transformation
Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action
The second Contending Modernities case study of recent Catholic Relief Services (CRS) inter-religious action programs highlights CRS’s work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This case addresses a number of vital conceptual issues, including questions of gender roles, religious literacy, and identity development in situations of conflict.
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Promoting Interreligious Tolerance in Upper Egypt
Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action
In Upper Egypt, escalating patterns of violence along religiocultural fault-lines can be explained in terms of societal separation.
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United for Girls’ Rights: A Reflection
Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action
Contending Modernities profiles Catholic Relief Service’s gender and development-focused Dialogue and Action Project (DAP) in the coastal region of Kenya.
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Authorizing the Human Person in a Cosmopolitan Age: A Thematic Synthesis
How do religious and secular traditions approach and contest bioethical questions of human dignity and integrity? How can communities coexist peacefully in the wake of unprecedented migrations or in the ashes of intercommunal violence? We weave together the major themes of the CM Rome 2015 plenary conference in a synthetic account that brings to bear relevant scholarship and looks both back at CM’s research trajectory, as well as forward to the future research and outreach agenda of the CM initiative.
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Inter-Religious Action in Central Mindanao: Applying Binding, Bonding, and Bridging to Land Conflict
Series: CRS Inter-Religious Action
In Mindanao, the southernmost island region of the Philippines, armed groups have struggled against the central government since at least…
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Atalia Omer: A Response to Jan-Werner Müller
Series: Rome 2016
A “democracy” that lacks a fundamental commitment to pluralism opens the door to totalitarianism.
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From London to Rome: Changing the Conversation about Religion
Series: Rome 2016
ATALIA OMER
The conference “Making Democracy One’s Own: Muslim, Catholic and Secular Perspectives in Dialogue on Democracy, Development, and Peace” (Rome, May 30-June 1, 2016) sought to strengthen and intervene in theorizing the question of religion and democracy.
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