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Articles written by Joshua S. Lupo

Introduction to Symposium on Black Dignity

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity
Joshua S. Lupo
June 28, 2023January 27, 2024

Dignity, for Lloyd, is a praxis rather than an essential aspect of identity; it is not fixed, it is found through struggle rather than preceding it or following it.

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Religion and Broken Solidarities: A Conversation on Political Movements, the Literary Imagination, and Hope

Joshua S. Lupo
May 9, 2023February 1, 2024

What is revealed in these conversations is that challenging the structures that marginalize the most vulnerable in our society requires an intersectional analysis.

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Introduction to Symposium on Who Are My People?

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?
Joshua S. Lupo
April 6, 2023May 23, 2023

Katongole listens not only to the stories people tell, but listens for the patterns enfolded within them, and the larger tapestry those patterns make up.

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Mining for Theology: The Limits of the Postsecular in Khaled Furani’s Redeeming Anthropology

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Joshua S. Lupo
February 21, 2023January 27, 2024

Why do we need idolatry to recognize our false claims to possess the absolute, when fallibilism will do? Is it just to offer religious people a piece of the secular pie?

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Introducing The Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Joshua S. Lupo
January 31, 2023January 24, 2024

Inspired by the work of Ebrahim Moosa, this symposium addresses challenging questions about how to confront Islamophobia in west and how to reimagine the study of religion today.

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Introduction to Symposium on When Politics are Sacralized

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Joshua S. Lupo
September 21, 2022October 12, 2022

What the contributors to this symposium show is that it is possible to engage in comparative work that is attentive to history, social and political complexity, and diversity without losing track of the more abstract concepts that are necessary to compare cross-culturally.

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A Conversation with Shaul Magid and Friends on Meir Kahane and Political Theology

Joshua S. Lupo
August 10, 2022

Magid’s book and this discussion draw attention to how coloniality and modernity, especially in their religious elements, continue to perpetuate racism, misogyny, and xenophobia today.

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Introduction to Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Joshua S. Lupo
April 13, 2022December 9, 2022

By bringing Moore’s insights to their work, these contributors open up space for thought that break through the modern boundaries of nation, discipline, and thought.

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Introduction to Symposium on The Moral Triangle

Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle
Joshua S. Lupo
February 9, 2022March 4, 2022

What readers will discern in these pages is that the historical traumas experienced by one group can occlude the realities of violence and oppression in another.

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“The Dead Don’t Go Anywhere”: Phenomenology, Religious Studies, and History

Joshua S. Lupo
December 8, 2021February 1, 2024

Rather than disinterested studies of “other people” who might do theology, unlike those of us in the social sciences or humanities, we might imagine those whom we study as fellow travelers with whom we share a world.

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