Joshua S. Lupo, Author at Contending Modernities

“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.

Introduction to Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires

Joshua S. Lupo
November 19, 2021January 25, 2024

By inviting us to confront our assumptions about what counts as modern religion, and where its origins lie, Haeri’s book again reminds us that accounts of modernity’s development are indeed contentious, and that there is no singular narrative that unites these different strains.

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Introduction to Symposium on Kenyan, Christian, Queer

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Joshua S. Lupo
September 28, 2021January 25, 2024

Van Klinken and this symposium’s contributors open up new spaces for imagining the emancipatory possibilities that come with attending to queer religious life in Kenya and beyond.

Introduction to Symposium on Wrestling with God

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God

Joshua S. Lupo
June 29, 2021February 1, 2024

In thinking both critically and constructively with Christian thinkers from both the past and present, Lynch’s book shows how we might employ critical genealogical methods without succumbing to a cynical and/or fatalistic view of the world.

Introduction to Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Joshua S. Lupo
April 15, 2021April 26, 2021

This book presents the heretofore understudied history of Catholic international diplomacy in the early- to mid-twentieth century.

Introduction to Symposium on Gendered Morality

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality

Joshua S. Lupo
October 22, 2020October 28, 2020

Ayubi’s book is an example of rich feminist-critical and philosophical ethics.

Introduction to Symposium on Faith in Flux

Series: Symposium on Faith in Flux

Joshua S. Lupo
January 24, 2020January 25, 2024

The Makhuwa are mobile not because they seek to evade the constraints of tradition, but precisely the opposite, because they are working within them.

Madrasa Discourses Goes to Bangladesh

Series: Madrasa Discourses

Joshua S. Lupo
January 17, 2020January 17, 2020

At the end of the workshop, it was clear that there was enthusiastic interest in both the topics and approach adopted by Madrasa Discourses. It was also clear that there were unique challenges as well as possibilities that might come with expanding the existing program to include Bangladesh.

Introduction to Book Symposium On The Political Lives of Saints

Series: Symposium on The Political Lives of Saints

Joshua S. Lupo
October 24, 2019October 30, 2019

By thinking outside the US and European context about how secular and religious forces interact in the modern world, Heo’s book reminds us of the theoretical richness that is gained from expanding our accounts of religion and secularism.

Articles written by Joshua S. Lupo