Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
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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Widespread product “halalization” contributes to novel modes of self-described piety, yet implies a pro-consumptive “deregulation” of religion.
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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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In Upper Egypt, escalating patterns of violence along religiocultural fault-lines can be explained in terms of societal separation.
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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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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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In Mindanao, the southernmost island region of the Philippines, armed groups have struggled against the central government since at least…
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A “democracy” that lacks a fundamental commitment to pluralism opens the door to totalitarianism.
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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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Contending Modernities welcomes our newest co-director Dr. Atalia Omer. As a scholar trained in the theories and methods of the study of religion she brings expertise in religion, conflict and peacebuilding as well as attention to conceptual questions of modernity and secularism. Read the full article »
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