Field Notes Archives | Page 8 of 14 | Contending Modernities

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 »

Review – Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report

Atalia Omer
April 3, 2016August 13, 2019

Full review can be found at the Journal of the American Academy of Religion Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a…

CM Reacts: Brussels & Beyond

Vincent Rougeau, Angus Ritchie, Robert Hefner and Ebrahim Moosa
March 30, 2016August 13, 2019

In the wake of last week’s bombings in Belgium, Turkey, Pakistan, and elsewhere, Contending Modernities asked the chairs of the…

Catholics, Muslims and Secularists in Quebec: Citizenships in Tension in the Aftermath of the Quiet Revolution

Azeddine Hmimssa
February 20, 2016August 13, 2019

The proposed bill on a Charter of Quebec Values, introduced in 2013, generated great tensions, sparking criticism of the Government of Quebec, and igniting public debate on religion, public ethics, and citizenship. However, the proposed bill also served to broaden citizen participation and acted as a catalyst for mobilization and networking across religious associations and institutions. Read the full article »

The Un-Dutchable Challenge of Pluralism

Ahmet Yükleyen
February 19, 2016January 24, 2024

In recent years pluralist co-existence has been pushed to the center of political and social discussion in the Netherlands, as once “received” understandings of integration, including various models of multiculturalism, are called into question. For Dutch society, otherwise known for its pragmatism and tolerance, the path forward to a more effective pluralist co-existence remains uncertain. Read the full article »

Struggling to Mieux Vivre Ensemble: The Sobering Reality of France’s new Plurality

Carol Ferrara
January 18, 2016January 27, 2024

2015 was a devastating year for France. The horrific Paris attacks of January and November gave rise to a climate of fear, suspicion, and social distrust, and present formidable and as of yet unresolved challenges for leaders and social actors to find new and more effective strategies to mieux vivre ensemble (live better together). Read the full article »

Los Angeles: A Microcosm for National Conversations on Religion, Public Life and Deep Diversity

Ahmet Tekelioglu
January 6, 2016January 6, 2023

The city of Los Angeles—a diverse, cosmopolitan, dynamically changing landscape—provides unique insights into how American Muslim and Catholic communities are engaging with the new plurality at different stages of their respective historical evolutions in the ever-changing American religious and legal-ethical landscape. Read the full article »

A Muslim Response to Pope Francis’s Environmental Encyclical: Laudato Si’

A. Rashied Omar
December 17, 2015August 12, 2019

A. RASHIED OMAR

Pope Francis’s environmental encyclical Laudato Si’: On Care For Our Common Home is undoubtedly one of the most important interventions in twenty first century campaigns for environmental justice. Muslims can and should engage substantively with Laudato Si’ in order to build broad solidarity with meaningful global commitments for the collective good, through responsible stewardship of the earth. Read the full article »

The Challenge of Updating Archaic Doctrine

Ebrahim Moosa
September 29, 2015August 12, 2019

Contending Modernities co-director Ebrahim Moosa’s recently published op-ed in the Washington Post, My madrassa classmate hated politics. Then he joined the Islamic State, provides a timely case study of a successful South African imam’s unlikely immigration to Syria to join the Islamic State. Read the full article »

Historicity and Discursivity, Religious and Secular: Responding to the Rome Conference 2015

Series: Rome 2015

Ebrahim Moosa
August 17, 2015January 24, 2024

Rather than fixating on the authority of past authorities and their social imaginaries, the discursive approach negotiates conceptions of the human person by way of historicizing and complexly rereading the tradition.

Field Notes Articles