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Theorizing Modernities

Constructing responsive theory to understand and evaluate the dynamics of modernity.

Featured in Theorizing Modernities

  • Scientific Literacy for Madrasa Graduates: A Project for Religious Renewal at the University of Notre Dame

    The goal of Madrasa Discourses is to transform the intellectual culture within madrasa scholarship by bringing it into conversation with contemporary intellectu...


  • Sustainable Resources: Reimagining Our Relationship with the Earth

    In the age of the anthropocene—climate change brought about by human actions—religious traditions can offer vital resources for reimagining a sustainable relati...


  • Border-Crossers: Interrogating Boundaries through Bodies

    What we can infer from this panel is that the political, racial, and religious markers which compose borders are also etched and negotiated on the bodies of the...


  • The Price of (non) Whiteness

    Are American Jews willing to forfeit some of that privilege, whatever that might mean, as a gesture to those whose who cannot “pass” into the space of whiteness...


  • Introduction to Policing Analogies

    The interrogation of normative representation and the creation of multi-racial and multi-gendered spaces are inadvertently rendered invisible and inaudible with...


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Theorizing Modernities Articles

Pentecostal Power and Politics in the Clerical State

Abimbola A. Adelakun
September 21, 2023

Obadare’s insightful analysis outlines how new rulerships emerge in Africa’s yet unstable democracies while highlighting the nature of politics, power, legitimacy, and the evolution of democracy.

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Introduction to Symposium on Pastoral Power, Clerical State

Series: Symposium on Pastoral Power Clerical State
Joshua S. Lupo
September 21, 2023

What this symposium encourage us to reflect on is how authority is maintained, challenged, and revoked in the modern world, and especially in postcolonial settings.

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Toward a New Discourse on Middle Eastern Christianity

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Mitri Raheb
September 20, 2023September 20, 2023

There is genuine concern among many Christians in the Middle East that “Freedom of Religious Belief” will be weaponized as a platform for populism, religious nationalism, and colonial interventions.

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Metanoia, Hope, and Narrating the Stories of Middle Eastern Christians

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Mourad Takawi
September 14, 2023September 14, 2023

Not only does this book present a much-needed decolonial interruption, but it also affirms the necessity of repentance and reconciliation in ensuring a peaceful and just future.

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Mitri Raheb and the Legacy of the West in the Middle East

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Gary Burge
September 7, 2023

Western powers and in particular, the U.S., have been instrumental in breaking up the most ancient Christian community in the Middle Eastern world.

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Black Dignity as a Universal Horizon

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity
Nadia Fadil
August 31, 2023

The political vocabularies and tactics generated through the African American struggle has had a universal reach that has inspired and shaped struggles all over the world.

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“Religious Freedoms,” Apocalyptic Thinking, and Political Violence

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Atalia Omer
August 30, 2023

Palestinian Christians are under attack, but they are targeted not because of their Christianity, but rather because of their Palestinian identity.

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Introduction to Symposium on The Politics of Persecution

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Joshua S. Lupo
August 24, 2023September 20, 2023

Raheb’s book puts forward a deep historical engagement that locates the plight of Middle Eastern Christians in a longer arc of colonial history and the history of empires.

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Middle Eastern Christians and Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Candace Lukasik
August 24, 2023August 28, 2023

Minoritization shows its plasticity as it is translated across borders and through empire, sustained by the very contradictions that seemingly undo it.

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Theology and the Environmental Humanities

Series: Theories of Land
Evan Berry
August 17, 2023

The concepts that ground contemporary scholarly conversations about the cultural roots of the climate crisis are saturated with theological questions.

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