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Global Currents

Tracking flows of people, news and ideas as they interact with secular and religious dynamics.

Featured in Global Currents

  • Our Jerusalem of Unspoken Stories

    For Palestinians, the loss is real and sustained, mostly spoken of privately, like a wound you would not like to expose openly....


  • Freedom of Speech? Palestine as an Exception

    Can a Jew speak about Palestine not as a Jew, but in the name of solidarity? Can the question of Palestine ever become more than essentially a Jewish question?...


  • Producing Motherhood? Uterus Transplantation for Infertility

    Uterus transplant makes visible the ways in which social expectations and ideas about the normative body interact with the ethical ends of medicine....


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    Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress....


  • From “Shooting and Crying” to “Shooting and Singing”: Notes on the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.

    The days of shooting and crying are over. Shooting continues, but crying has stopped. It has been replaced with laughter: hysterical, cynical, crude, perhaps ev...


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Global Currents Articles

Ramayana and Political Imagination: A Reprise

Series: The Ram Temple in Ayodhya
Ananya Vajpeyi
May 9, 2024May 9, 2024

There is a long multicultural past, a complex socio-political dynamic between diverse groups, and a deep history of many religions to be reckoned with in India.

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The Ram Temple in Ayodhya, India: A Complex Intersection of Religion, Politics, and Society

Series: The Ram Temple in Ayodhya
Abusaleh Shariff
April 29, 2024May 1, 2024

This consecration event has become a source of worry as it supports solidifying majoritarianism and a disregard for constitutional obligations and guidelines.

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Secular India or Hindu Nation: A Short History

Series: The Ram Temple in Ayodhya
Ananya Vajpeyi
April 19, 2024May 9, 2024

Modi chose Varanasi as his electoral constituency, since it is the holiest city for Hindus, but he had his sights set on Ayodhya.

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For “A Civilian Truce”: Why We Need the Humble Humanism of Albert Camus

Christian Golden
April 16, 2024April 17, 2024

A human-centered ethic means nothing if not solidarity with every child.

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Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr Amidst Famine in Gaza

A. Rashied Omar
March 25, 2024March 26, 2024

Despite the challenges posed by Gaza’s precarious situation, the people of Gaza will come together to celebrate Eid al-Fitr with resilience and solidarity.

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Enrique Dussel and Latin American Liberation Theologies

Series: Remembering Dussel
Amirah Orozco
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024

Dussel provides us with tools to problematize Eurocentric accounts of religion/secularism broadly, Christianity more specifically, and most fundamentally, the entire discipline of theology.

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Enrique Dussel, Comrade Ancestor

Series: Remembering Dussel
Filipe Maia
February 13, 2024

As the grief for, and the farewells to, the first generation of liberation theologians and philosophers continue to meet us, the living will need to develop strategies to enlist these ancestors as sources for our efforts in the direction of decolonization.

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Rabbis for Ceasefire at the United Nations

Rebecca T. Aplert
February 8, 2024February 8, 2024

Our conversation moved us beyond words, for this Secretary General follows in the path set by former Secretary General Hammarskjöld and the other men who preceded him as rodfei shalom, seekers of peace.

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Restricting Free Speech for Palestine: Nine Responses to Prof. Claire Finkelstein’s Call

Ahmed Bouzid
January 27, 2024February 12, 2024

Calls for limits to free speech advocated by people like Claire O. Finkelstein are part of a wider ideological project in support of an Israeli propaganda war (Ebrahim Moosa).

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Decolonizing the Relation Between Philosophy and Theology

Series: Remembering Dussel
Rafael Vizcaíno
January 24, 2024February 1, 2024

One of the most significant legacies of Dussel’s work is the urgency to rethink disciplinary divides with an eye toward epistemic decolonization. 

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