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Articles written by Dania Straughan

Madrasa Discourses Free and Online

Dania Straughan
March 29, 2021

There is a fear that the Islamic scholarly debate is at risk of losing to the secular modern world.

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US border wall meets the Pacific in Tijuana.

Welcoming Complexity Together

Series: Ansari Conference 2018
Dania Straughan
January 11, 2019January 21, 2019

Religion and flourishing at the 2018 inaugural conference for the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion.

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Sharing Madrasa Discourses with Singapore

Dania Straughan
February 3, 2018February 6, 2018

Imagine, for a moment, that you are a young Singaporean Muslim leader. How will you guide your community through questions of diversity and modernity?

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Beyond Coexistence: Pluralism in Indonesia

Series: Beyond Coexistence
Dania Straughan
October 25, 2017October 25, 2017

What is the role of religion in public life? The debate is tearing through the Indonesian political and social fabric.

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Dignity is Not Power Blind

Dania Straughan
October 12, 2017April 17, 2018

Atrocious things have been perpetrated in societies that also value dignity.

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Sharing Madrasa Discourses at the United Nations

Series: Kathmandu 2017
Dania Straughan
August 23, 2017October 4, 2018

Before joining Notre Dame’s Madrasa Discourses project, Indian madrasa graduate Aadil Affan would have told you that accommodating or accepting…

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In Pursuit of Truth: Science, Tradition, and Renewal

Series: Madrasa Discourses
Dania Straughan and Mahan Mirza
June 29, 2017October 18, 2017

While religion, with its deep historical roots and foundational texts, may appear more infallible than science, can it too shift with new moral consensuses?

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Young New Delhi Muslims Vie for a Position in Contending Modernities Course

Dania Straughan
February 6, 2017May 23, 2017

Contending Modernities launches a course to advance New Delhi Madrasa seminary graduates’ critical theological and scientific literacy.

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Is Christianity Bad for Women?

Dania Straughan
November 2, 2016February 23, 2017

The short answer, according to the panel, is no. But the conversation left many stones unturned.

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Jan-Werner Müller: “Illiberal Democracy” as a Misnomer

Series: Rome 2016
Dania Straughan
July 27, 2016August 14, 2019

In the inaugural address of the “Making Democracy One’s Own” conference in Rome on May 30th, 2016, Jan-Werner Müller recounted the divergent strategies taken by 19th and 20th European Catholics in making their respective political systems “their own.”

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