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Articles written by Joshua S. Lupo

Introduction to Prophetic Maharaja

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Joshua S. Lupo
May 1, 2025May 27, 2025

Judge suggests that the past never contains the certainties we like to project onto it, and thus that the present is unlikely to contain them either.

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Introduction to Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Joshua S. Lupo
March 25, 2025March 25, 2025

What happens when the postcolonial state itself becomes an agent of colonization and not merely one of its victims?

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Introduction to Symposium on The Muslim Difference

Series: Symposium on The Muslim Difference
Joshua S. Lupo
February 13, 2025February 20, 2025

Patel’s hope is to offer resources for building a “Muslim modernity” from the sources that have sustained the tradition.

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Sacrality, Land, and Conceptual Fluidity: A Synthetic Response to Dana Lloyd and Barbara Sostaita

Series: CM Conversations
Joshua S. Lupo
December 13, 2024December 18, 2024

Lloyd and Sostaita show us how we might move beyond the sacred/profane binary that both its defenders and critics are parasitic upon.

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Reimagining Jewish Ethics and Politics in Palestine/Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel
Joshua S. Lupo
May 22, 2024September 30, 2024

Rather than sovereignty and domination, Manekin and Rosen argued that Jewish teachings require followers to side with the marginalized and oppressed.

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No Peace without Decolonization: A Lecture and Interview with Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Atalia Omer and Joshua S. Lupo
April 9, 2024April 9, 2024

Decolonial love is about the possibility of connection (and relation) when connection seems completely impossible.

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The Political Theology of Traditionalism: Steve Bannon, the Far Right, and the End of Days

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures
Joshua S. Lupo
January 16, 2024January 30, 2024

It is perhaps an overstatement to claim that Bannon himself is a full-fledged Traditionalist. . . yet there is clear evidence that he finds aspects of the movement appealing and is even willing to implement them within the halls of power.

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Introducing Enlivening the Nation

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Joshua S. Lupo
November 10, 2023January 27, 2024

This series addresses complex ways in which people become attached to particular understandings of the nation and the role of religion in either supporting or hindering that attachment.

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Introduction to Symposium on Pastoral Power, Clerical State

Series: Symposium on Pastoral Power Clerical State
Joshua S. Lupo
September 21, 2023November 7, 2023

What this symposium encourage us to reflect on is how authority is maintained, challenged, and revoked in the modern world, and especially in postcolonial settings.

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Introduction to Symposium on The Politics of Persecution

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Joshua S. Lupo
August 24, 2023December 14, 2023

Raheb’s book puts forward a deep historical engagement that locates the plight of Middle Eastern Christians in a longer arc of colonial history and the history of empires.

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