Theorizing Modernities Archives | Contending Modernities

Something Rotten in the State of Denmark: Katongole on Africa’s Gifts for the West

William Cavanaugh
August 18, 2017August 8, 2017

The choice for Katongole is not simply the choice between Africa and the West. The cure for Africa’s problems does indeed need to come from outside of Africa, but not from a Western state. It needs to come from God.

The “Dark Continent” is Dead

Paul Ocobock
August 15, 2017August 15, 2017

After reading Born from Lament, I want to shout from the mountaintop that the “Dark Continent is dead!” Or at least the awful way we in the West describe Africa is dead.

Between ‘Descriptive Haste’ and ‘Prescriptive Haste’

Tinyiko Maluleke
August 8, 2017August 15, 2017

The central thesis of Emmanuel Katongole’s Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa is that lament…

The Many Faces of Lament

Cecelia Lynch
August 3, 2017August 4, 2017

How do Christians who have experienced the indescribable love of God in their suffering, and from it draw out unfathomable hope, relate to those who also practice lament and seek hope, but are not Christian?

The Visceral Politics of Lament: A CM Symposium on “Born from Lament”

Kyle Lambelet
August 1, 2017August 3, 2017

In his new book Born from Lament: The Theology and Politics of Hope in Africa, Emmanuel Katongole explores a constellation of manifestations of politics in a visceral register by analyzing the theology and politics of lament in East Africa.

Nourishing Hospitality: Jolyon Mitchell Interviews Mona Siddiqui

Jolyon Mitchell and Mona Siddiqui
May 26, 2017August 2, 2017

Generosity wasn’t just the act of giving; it’s the most noble thing that you could do. Because in the harsh desert environment, if you weren’t generous to your guests or to the stranger, the stranger would die.

Hospitality and Empire

Perin Gurel
May 26, 2017May 26, 2017

Except this time, within this new, muscular, postcolonial hospitality, the erstwhile settler gets to play gracious host.

Expanding the Conversation on Hospitality in Islam

Martin Nguyen
May 26, 2017May 26, 2017

The interview “Nourishing Hospitality,” conducted by Jolyon Mitchell with author and scholar Mona Siddiqui, is not only a useful introduction…

Action as Prayer: Lessons from Oceti Sakowin

Jonathan Brenneman
April 3, 2017

The prayer practices at Oceti Sakowin camp offered a holistic and positive relationship between prayer and action, a relationship not often found between prayer and action within Christianity.