Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Moroccan youth’s ambivalence towards the secular and religious results in a creative synthesis.
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The terra incognita of the Trump era can offer American Muslims the opportunity to emerge stronger, more self-articulated, and more inclusive and loving.
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There has, it surprises some people to learn, never been an America without Muslims. Read the full article »
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The temporary inclusion of LGBTQ subjects in the national body involved the exclusion of Muslims through the discourse of the war on terror. Read the full article »
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The CIHA blog calls for sharing of experiences, wisdom, emotional and action-oriented responses to the recent election. Read the full article »
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Contending Modernities editors will eagerly receive proposals for symposia of three to four commentators, scholars, and activists on a specific issue, event, or theme. Symposia authors will ideally be a mix of senior scholars, graduate students, and public intellectuals. We will also allow single-author submissions, though we will give preference to conversations and encourage single-author submissions to respond to material already published on Contending Modernities.
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Retaining, reconfiguring, and renouncing traditional embodiments of sex, gender, and sexuality. Read the full article »
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Tension can be productive. Certainly, there are resources even within the just war tradition itself on which those interested in promoting the development of peacebuilding practices might draw. In addition to the practice of including more participants from areas and groups historically excluded from Church conferences and conversations, the maintenance of these competing views of the moral status of modernity may thus be a means of facilitating dialogue and new development within the Catholic community itself.
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There is a great deal to be said regarding the role of nonviolent modes of addressing human conflict, a topic often neglected by interpreters of the just war tradition; but severing the notions of just peace and just war is a mistake. Indeed, notions of just peace and just war go together.
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Whether or not one approves rare and stringently specified uses of violent force to protect democratic institutions and human security, all Catholics, and counterparts in other traditions, should prioritize practical initiatives to transform conflicts and expand just peace.
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