Theorizing Modernities Archives | Contending Modernities

Border-Crossers: Interrogating Boundaries through Bodies

Lailatul Fitriyah
January 16, 2019August 23, 2019

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 marginalized others as ‘border-crossers.’

Sustainable Resources: Reimagining Our Relationship with the Earth

Marie-Claire Klassen
January 11, 2019January 18, 2019

In the age of the anthropocene—climate change brought about by human actions—religious traditions can offer vital resources for reimagining a sustainable relationship between humans, other animals, and the earth.

US border wall meets the Pacific in Tijuana.

Welcoming Complexity Together

Dania Straughan
January 11, 2019January 21, 2019

Religion and flourishing at the 2018 inaugural conference for the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion.

Islamophobia Is Not Racism

Melani McAlister
October 2, 2018October 4, 2018

Imperialism and structural inequalities are highly relevant to the post-Cold War framing of Islam on a global scale, but neither race or “phobia” captures the full complexity of the power dynamics at play.

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

Mahan Mirza
September 25, 2018October 4, 2018

The goal of Madrasa Discourses is to transform the intellectual culture within madrasa scholarship by bringing it into conversation with contemporary intellectual currents. [Re-posted from The Maydan]

Particular and Capacious? A Reflection on Identity and Solidarity

Slavica Jakelić
September 7, 2018October 4, 2018

Do particular national experiences and historical locations constrain or broaden one’s ethical commitments?

Pluralism, Secularism, and Anti/Philo-Semitism

Geneviève Zubrzycki
August 24, 2018October 4, 2018

How can Poland, one of the most ethnically, denominationally, and religiously homogenous nation-states in the world, counter the empirical absence of ethnic, racial, and religious plurality to meet the modern political goals of pluralism and multi-culturalism?