Theorizing Modernities Archives | Contending Modernities

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, 2025June 6, 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.

Contention, Dwelling, and the Loss of Loss

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

Randeep Singh Hothi
May 15, 2025

The caution against fixation radicalizes the possibility of learning, because neither method nor object can be guaranteed by the recuperation of what is lost.

Loss, Sovereignty and the Sikh Tradition: India and the World

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

Nirvikar Singh
May 13, 2025May 16, 2025

The material problems of Indian Punjab will not be solved by a Khalsa Raj. Political autonomy will do nothing by itself to shift Punjab’s economy out of a destructive and unsustainable trap of growing wheat and rice for India’s food security.