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Field Notes

Updates from Contending Modernities research projects across the globe.

Learn more about CM’s current research areas:

  • Reexamining Religion and Modernities
  • Madrasa Discourses
  • Science and the Human Person
  • Global Migration and the New Cosmopolitanism
  • Authority, Community & Identity

Featured in Field Notes

  • Sharing Madrasa Discourses at the United Nations

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


  • Facing Down Intolerance: Sharing Madrasas in the USA

    I was shocked and repulsed that someone in my own family would say that, after I had shared how wonderful the Madrasa Discourses participants were....


  • In Pursuit of Our Aesthetic Past

    What was it that disconnected the vast majority of South Asian Muslims from this vibrant tradition of art and creativity?...


  • COVID-19, Conspiracies, and Conceptions of Identity

    The sources of conspiracies are not religious beliefs but rather are the reservations and vulnerabilities a community already has towards the government, societ...


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Field Notes Articles

Costly Solidarity

Contending Modernities
May 8, 2025May 8, 2025

On March 25, 2025, Palestinian reverend and theologian Dr. Munther Isaac joined the broader community of the University of Notre…

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Photo of authors Ben Lorber and Shane Burley with cover image of their book Safety through Solidarity.

Safety through Solidarity: A Book Launch

Contending Modernities
January 27, 2025January 27, 2025

White supremacy, under the pretense of fighting antisemitism, is mounting an assault on minoritized communities. Understanding how antisemitism works is central to fighting back.

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David Grossman’s Camouflage of Violence

Omri Ben Yehuda
December 27, 2024December 27, 2024

Grossman’s story is first of all the story of a mother whose burning love for her young son collapses under the national narrative of violence and death.

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Photo of white flags on a Notre Dame quad in memory of Palestinian children killed since October 2023.

Israel’s Genocidal Assault on Gaza: A Lecture with Raz Segal

Contending Modernities
December 17, 2024December 18, 2024

How do scholars distinguish genocide? What does intentionality, defense, and the Holocaust have to do with it?

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Mosques and Muslims in the “Evergreen City of India”: Exploring India’s Pluralism

Mohammad Ali
March 1, 2023January 24, 2024

Pluralism not only denotes a tolerance towards others, but also offers an opportunity to intermingle and exchange and thus mitigate difference.

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Faith-Based Education & Peacebuilding: A Teacher’s Call for Further Collaboration

Jenna Streich
December 21, 2021

In order to effectively counter any potential violence inflicted by religious schools, it is necessary that educator-peacebuilders in these institutions root themselves in the context of the school community and the lived experiences of the students and their families.

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COVID-19, Conspiracies, and Conceptions of Identity

Mary Kate Godfrey, Zulqernain Haider and Sidra Zulfaqar
December 6, 2021December 7, 2021

The sources of conspiracies are not religious beliefs but rather are the reservations and vulnerabilities a community already has towards the government, society, or another distrusted entity.

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Madrasa Discourses in Hindsight

Ammar Khan Nasir
November 3, 2021

At the end of the first iteration of the program, it can be said without doubt that Madrasa Discourses has helped madrasa graduates in a number of fundamental way

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Allama Shibli Nomani: An Architect of Modern Islamic Education

Syed Hasan Sardar
September 21, 2021January 25, 2024

Shibli’s attempt to modernize madrasa education provided a durable impetus for social and educational reform within religious society, the impact of which is felt even today.

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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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