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

Mahan Mirza
September 25, 2018January 25, 2024

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

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities

Slavica Jakelić
September 7, 2018November 18, 2020

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

Pluralism, Secularism, and Anti/Philo-Semitism

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities

Geneviève Zubrzycki
August 24, 2018January 24, 2024

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?

Religious Nationalism and Right Wing Populism: Trumpism and Beyond

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities

Philip Gorski
August 6, 2018February 1, 2024

Of course, not all religious conservatives feel attracted to the populist message. Which do? Religious nationalists.

On Crossroads: Learnings from Modernity, Feminisms, and Transrational Peace

Series: Decolonizing Narratives

Paula Facci
June 29, 2018

Scholars and practitioners of feminist, gender, and critical race theory have long questioned the self-righteousness, rigid categorizations, and violence of dominant modern discourse.

Photo Credit: Wally Gobetz, on Flickr.com. NYC - FiDi: Trinity Church.

Modernities and Religious Identity and Difference

Series: Religion Book Symposium

Christian Smith
April 20, 2018April 21, 2018

Modernity is not simply a political and economic project, but more deeply a cultural one, in some ways a sacred or quasi-religious project.

Photo Credit: United Church of Christ/Jessie Palatucci. UCC March and Action to Stop Deportations at Baltimore ICE Office. Rev. Traci Blackmon, Executive Minister for the United Church of Christ.

Understanding Religion in Light of Shifting Practice

Series: Religion Book Symposium

Abdulkader Tayob
April 9, 2018

“Religion” calls for rethinking the familiar models used to think of religion and public life: control, capitulation, co-optation, or rejection.

Toward a Common Respectful Attentiveness to Religions

Series: Religion Book Symposium

Francis X. Clooney, SJ
March 9, 2018March 16, 2018

Christian Smith helps us see that people who are religious can more confidently lay our claim to a public sphere which is no longer a neutral, secular space.

Drepung monastery is one of the largest monasteries in Tibet. It was from here that the 2nd through the 5th Dalai Lama lived and ruled - until the 5th commissioned the Potala to be built.

On Sameness, Difference and Wholeness

Series: Religion Book Symposium

Anne C. Klein
February 16, 2018

When we study medicine, biology, even the arts, we understand that every human being is much more like us than not. But with religion, difference dominates.