Theorizing Modernities Archives | Contending Modernities

Nation Statism and the Jewish Tradition: William Cavanaugh Interviews Yaacov Yadgar

Yaacov Yadgar and William Cavanaugh
July 16, 2025

I think it is a given that the multiplicity of human languages, traditions, practices, etc. diversify and enrich our ways of being in the world; this multiplicity is a good thing

Critiquing the Idolatry of Nationalism: Yaacov Yadgar Interviews William Cavanaugh

Series: CM Conversations

William Cavanaugh and Yaacov Yadgar
July 14, 2025July 14, 2025

The myth that we are disenchanted is a form of self-congratulation used to marginalize those who do not fit the secular paradigm

In the Ruins of the Modern

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Atalia Omer
July 9, 2025July 9, 2025

Is it possible to decolonize secularity and extract it from its nest in racialized modern and colonial formations?

A Call for a New Approach to Religion and Peacebuilding

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Emma Tomalin
July 2, 2025

By shifting our perspective, we can uncover pathways for more equitable, locally driven peace initiatives that challenge, rather than reinforce, colonial frameworks.

Engaging our Imagination with Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Jean-Pierre Reed
June 12, 2025

How does one get from religion-based peacebuilding practices that maintain existent orders of domination to peacebuilding practices that challenge and potentially transcend orders of domination?

A Transnational Feminist Reflection on “Doing Religion” and “Knowing Religion”

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Keunjoo Christine Pae
June 6, 2025June 10, 2025

Without critical analysis of the gendered, racialized, and sexualized asymmetry of power . . . interreligious peacebuilding serves only a heteropatriarchal neocolonialism.

Introduction to Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Joshua S. Lupo
May 30, 2025July 8, 2025

Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding asks the peacebuilding industry to look inward about the assumptions it makes about religion and its broader location within the ideological contours that shape modernity.

Abundant Religious Pluralism

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Robert Orsi
May 30, 2025May 30, 2025

Santa Rosalia’s welcoming of the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu refugees . . . tells us that the gods, who have their own intentions in their relationships with humans, may be practitioners of decolonial love too.

Of Hostility and Irrelevance

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

Rajbir Singh Judge
May 27, 2025May 27, 2025

Why do we always need more voices, traces, and archives? What does such inclusion, connection, and assimilation promise?

Refusal as Method in Rajbir Singh Judge’s Prophetic Maharaja

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

Harini Kumar
May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

Refusal remains a potent idea across disciplinary silos, and the refusals in Judge’s book offer provocations that scholars will be contending with for some time.

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