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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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Rejoining the Ottoman and South Asian Worlds

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Jonathan Brown
February 15, 2021February 16, 2021

One cannot read the landscape of Islamic thought and practice in British India through a lens ground to catch binaries like tradition/reform, law/mysticism, Arab/indigenous, extremist/tolerant, Salafi/Madhhabi-Sufi.

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On the Rhetoric of Jewish Solidarity: A Hebrew-Israelite’s Perspective

Series: Policing Analogies
Rabbi Walter Isaac
February 9, 2021

In the desire to demonstrate that Jews are on the right side of history, the (white and non-white) Jewish community’s problems with racism are often ignored.

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White Supremacists Among Us—Discomfiting but True

Series: Policing Analogies
Lewis R. Gordon
February 2, 2021February 3, 2021

The idea that “real Jew” must be white is a feature of unfortunate misrepresentations of Jewish people primarily during the twentieth century, with steam gathered in its support since the late 1960s.

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Beyond Analogy

Series: Policing Analogies
Keith Feldman
November 18, 2020November 19, 2020

Solidarity is a practice, an action, whose condition of possibility is the messy materiality of social difference, not its flattening.

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Response to Gendered Morality Symposium

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality
Zahra Ayubi
November 10, 2020January 27, 2024

I do not want to throw out the akhlaq texts because I think they do help us think about what it means to live a good life. I just think that we may be better off taking their questions as important ones to be answered, without adopting their answers.

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Hierarchy, Interdependence, and Islamic Ethics

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality
Saadia Yacoob
November 9, 2020November 9, 2020

The understanding of humans as interconnected in their striving towards ethical excellence carries tremendous potential as a foundational story for the narratives that Muslim feminists construct about human flourishing.

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Can the Akhlaq Tradition Be Redeemed When It Comes to Animals?

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality
Robert Tappan
October 30, 2020October 30, 2020

What can akhlaq tell us about how to live as decent and ethical (human) beings in a world in which we now have ample evidence of animal rationality?

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Imperfect States

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality
Travis Zadeh
October 28, 2020January 27, 2024

Everything is in flux, constantly changing and reforming. The discipline of the self is never complete, just as group formation is a continual work in progress.

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The Subject of Ethics

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality
Kecia Ali
October 26, 2020October 26, 2020

What the ethicists offer us is, in part, the reminder that ethical self-cultivation is the bedrock of a moral society. What Ayubi offers us is the assurance that a democratization of that ethical project is possible and desirable.

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Introduction to Symposium on Gendered Morality

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality
Joshua S. Lupo
October 22, 2020October 28, 2020

Ayubi’s book is an example of rich feminist-critical and philosophical ethics.

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