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Global Currents

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

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  • 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....


  • Beyond Aztlán: Latina/o/x Students Let Go of Their Mythic Homeland

    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
Protest in Columbus, Ohio, USA, against catastrophic Israeli attacks on Gaza after the 7th of October, 2023.

Statement of Scholars in Holocaust and Genocide Studies on Mass Violence in Israel and Palestine since 7 October

Raz Segal
December 9, 2023January 27, 2024

In the following statement, over 55 scholars of the Holocaust, genocide, and mass violence deplore the atrocity crimes against civilians…

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The Israel/Palestine Escalation: The Current Chapter of a Long History

Contending Modernities
October 16, 2023February 1, 2024

This conflict did not begin on Saturday, October 7. Addressing root causes is key to de-escalate violence and redress politically the aspirations of Palestinians for freedom and historical justice and the Israeli desire for safety.

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The Search for Justice, Liberation, and Humanity in the Life and Work of Desmond Tutu

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu
Hilary Rantisi
June 26, 2023February 1, 2024

Tutu’s message was simple: God created us for freedom. This is a freedom that does not belong to one group of people more than another.

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Transnational Solidarity, Israel/Palestine, and the Intellectual Legacies of Desmond Tutu

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu
Michael Battle
June 21, 2023February 1, 2024

Tutu’s legacy is precisely in the hope that human beings will celebrate the image of God whose unity is known through diverse persons.

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Desmond Tutu: A Much-Loved, Deeply Disturbed, and Offensive Prophet

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu
Farid Esack
June 8, 2023February 1, 2024

Tutu’s theology was simple: embrace the logic and the dreams of the margins.

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A Jewish Perspective on Desmond Tutu’s Prophetic Dream for Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu
Rebecca T. Aplert
May 31, 2023January 27, 2024

This is the starting point of Tutu’s challenge: Israel must recognize the God that is being worshipped in the land today is the God of conquest and not the God of liberation, and that they are not one in the same.

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The Pope Francis Effect in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Respect, Love, Compassion, Truth

Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, S.J., PhD
May 16, 2023January 27, 2024

This piece is co-published with the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa blog Pope Francis’s long-awaited trip to the Democratic…

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Revolutionary Dreams, Repressive Realities

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

Women stand at the forefront, driving this nation-wide revolt because there exists the deepest contradiction between their massive participation in social affairs and the patriarchal laws and denigrating regulations that seek to govern their bodies and appearances.

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Religion, Politics, and Trump’s Christian Nationalism

Scott Hibbard
August 11, 2022January 26, 2024

It was not a Christian ethic that drew conservative Christians to Donald Trump, but rather a sense of political tribalism and a base transactionalism.

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A Good Apology? Pope Francis’s Acknowledgment of Abuse in Canadian Indian Residential Schools

Series: The Catholic Church and Indian Residential Schools
Meghan J. Clark
July 21, 2022July 24, 2022

The good apology must go beyond complicity by recognizing culpability in wrongdoing and harm.

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