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Theorizing Modernities

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

Featured in Theorizing Modernities

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Decolonizing the Practices of Religion in International Relations

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Atalia Omer
July 15, 2021February 1, 2024

Lynch shows that the postsecular discovery of religion does not constitute a departure from the symbiosis of Christianity and secular modernity, but rather represents its perpetuation through other idioms and technologies.

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Christian Ethics and the Purposes of Modernity

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Michael Barnett
July 7, 2021August 3, 2021

What is the core of Christianity and how far can a Christian venture away from the core without risking being disqualified from participation?

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Race, Ressentiment, and Nihilism in White Evangelical Christian Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
July 1, 2021January 26, 2024

Race is inextricably interwoven with Christian nationalism in the U.S. And racialized privilege—and various dynamics of racial animus—is an essential driver of the recurring waves of White evangelical Christian ethno-religious nationalism.

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Ethical Precarity and Staying with the Trouble

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Diane L. Moore
June 29, 2021January 27, 2024

Together, Haraway and Lynch invite us into the generative power of confronting and embracing the interdependent dynamism of our existence.

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Introduction to Symposium on Wrestling with God

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Joshua S. Lupo
June 29, 2021February 1, 2024

In thinking both critically and constructively with Christian thinkers from both the past and present, Lynch’s book shows how we might employ critical genealogical methods without succumbing to a cynical and/or fatalistic view of the world.

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QAnon, Conspiracy, and White Evangelical Apocalypse

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
June 16, 2021February 1, 2024

Ethno-religious nationalism—and the distinctive logic and dynamics of zombie nationalism—forms the connective tissue between much White evangelicalism and QAnon conspiracy ideology.

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Introduction to Zombie Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
June 16, 2021February 1, 2024

The Trump-infused ethno-religious nationalism of White evangelicals is but the most recent upsurge of a political and cultural current that is traceable back at least sixty years, and indeed, much further.

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Can We Mediate between the Historical and the Rational? Reflections on al-Juwaynī’s Epistemology and Politics

Series: Law and Politics under the Abbasids
Mohammad H. Fadel
May 6, 2021January 27, 2024

Integrating quotidian practices into natural human reason seems to me to be the only way to provide them a secure foundation in modernity, when even deeply embodied customs cannot provide stability.

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A Spurned Bride? Religion and Religious Community in the Absence of a Caliph

Series: Law and Politics under the Abbasids
Omar Anchassi
May 4, 2021January 26, 2024

That the Caliph’s writ could hardly be said to extend beyond his palace walls mattered less than the fact that the institution itself was the source of tremendous symbolic power.

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Law and Politics under the Abbasids: A Symposium

Series: Symposium on Law and Politics under the Abbasids
Omar Anchassi
May 4, 2021January 27, 2024

The coherence in the Juwaynian project is by no means assumed in this book. Rather, it is demonstrated through a painstaking reading of a number of his most influential texts in the domains of legal theory and theology.

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