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Two American Fears: Islamophobia and Homophobia

Ali Altaf Mian
December 14, 2016January 27, 2024

This moment presents both difficulties and opportunities for analyzing the intersections of Islamophobia and homophobia. By historicizing the emergence of each, we gain analytical clarity about the complex negotiations of identity, never static but always becoming.

What’s Ethical about Popular Casuistry?

Series: Cecelia Lynch Talk 2016

Kyle Lambelet
May 6, 2016August 14, 2019

Lynch’s proposal strikes me as potentially quite fruitful as a mode of ethical and political analysis. She not only retrieves the notion of casuistry, but develops it as a lens to understand the everyday ethics of humanitarian actors. To harvest these fruits, however, I want to encourage Lynch to further clarity about the conceptual work that casuistry does in her research. Read the full article »

Religious Humanitarians and the Challenges of History

Series: Cecelia Lynch Talk 2016

Atalia Omer
May 6, 2016August 14, 2019

Lynch’s research is to be celebrated for the ways it foregrounds and explicates the importance of interrogating the discursive formations that inform religious ethics and popular casuistry. Her neo-Weberian framing allows for an elastic lens through which to examine the intersections of neoliberal and (African) orientalist discourses in the diffusion and praxis of the technocratic donor-driven apparatus of humanitarianism and development work. Read the full article »

The Popular Casuistry of Religious Humanitarians: Christian and Islamic Ethics in Action

Series: Cecelia Lynch Talk 2016

Cecelia Lynch
May 6, 2016August 14, 2019

Attention to “religion” in the work of humanitarians broadly-conceived (including both development and emergency relief actors) is on the rise, as is interrogating the reasons why humanitarians do what they do, and the role of religious actors in the broader “humanitarian international.” Read the full article »

Rebranding Islam: Public Diplomacy, Soft Power, and the Making of “Moderate Islam”

Series: ACI proposal

James Hoesterey
April 20, 2016August 13, 2019

During the years following 9/11, Indonesia’s foreign ministry promoted Indonesia as the model for “moderate Islam.”

Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in Ivory Coast

Series: ACI proposal

Ludovic Lado
April 20, 2016August 13, 2019

Sub-Saharan African societies, described as community-oriented, are often compared with Western societies pictured as individualistic. But this simplistic divide can be misleading.

The Battle for Meaning: Christians and Muslims at Odds over Indonesian Constitutionalism

Series: ACI proposal

Stefanus Hendrianto
April 20, 2016August 13, 2019

The abortion debate in Indonesia is a fitting illustration of the global trend toward liberalization of access to abortion across the world. In Indonesia, this phenomenon cannot be separated from the constitutional reform that took place more than a decade ago. This phenomenon immediately raises a question of how Muslims and Christians will respond to the new notion of constitutionalism. Read the full article »

ACI Africa – Pentecostal Pastors and the Crisis of Political Authority in Africa

Series: ACI proposal

Ebenezer Obadare
April 20, 2016August 13, 2019

Since January of this year, the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) Nigeria has hosted Divine Encounter and Shiloh Hour, a special monthly ministration and prayer service, in Abuja, the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory (FCT). April’s version of Divine Encounter took place in the city’s 60,000 capacity National Stadium complex against a backdrop of a prolonged fuel scarcity that virtually crippled social life and economic activities across the country. Read the full article »

Introducing ACI Africa

Emmanuel Katongole
April 16, 2016August 13, 2019

In its broad conception the Authority, Community, and Identity (ACI) Research project is about Africa’s complex modernities. Modernity is not one thing (see, for example, Eisentadt’s multiple modernities thesis). African individuals and communities find themselves at the intersection of multiple modern, global, local, traditional, secular and religious forces. Read the full article »

Introducing ACI Indonesia

Mun’im Sirry
April 16, 2016August 13, 2019

After a careful process of selecting the core research team, the Contending Modernities Authority, Community, and Identity (ACI) working group on Indonesia formally launched last year to begin a three-year research project to better understand the complex issues facing plural societies and to foster possible collaborations among various actors, religious and secular, at different levels: local and global, individuals and communities. Read the full article »

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