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Articles written by Brenna Moore

Modernity, Coloniality, and Interiority in Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Brenna Moore
May 4, 2022February 1, 2024

The affective, even queer way Maritain and Massignon carried themselves is “modern” in a sense because modernity creates space for the perpetuation of hegemonic norms as well as their subversion.

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Teaching Islamic Poetry Beyond Orientalism

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Brenna Moore
November 30, 2021January 20, 2022

Haeri’s book enables us to keep this mystical language alive in our classroom while making sure we don’t ossify it as the orientalists did, and only see it as part of Islam’s past, the domain of rarefied male elites, and as disconnected to living Muslims today

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‘Not Me, Not That’: Thinking Race and Catholic Modernity

Series: Decolonizing Narratives
Brenna Moore
December 1, 2017August 7, 2019

Subaltern voices are not just about “diversity,” but about approximating a more honest, rich and enlarged sense of truth and the world.

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Taking it Back from the Global Catholic Right: Reclaiming the Underworld of the Religious Imagination

Brenna Moore
February 6, 2017January 24, 2024

Brenna Moore points to Catholicism’s legacy of “risky thinkers” and rich theological resources as potential tools for resistance.

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