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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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The Necessary Alterity of Mimesis and its Effects

Series: Symposium on The Muslim Difference
Ashwak Hauter
February 19, 2025February 19, 2025

The unknowability and oscillation of the soul imbue individuals with a radical otherness or alterity.

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Imitation as Becoming: Didactic Mimesis in Youshaa Patel’s The Muslim Difference

Series: Symposium on The Muslim Difference
Anna Bigelow
February 13, 2025

Patel leads us to a generative space of inquiry, offering multiple routes of exploration as we seek to understand human nature and the human quest to know ultimate reality.

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Introduction to Symposium on The Muslim Difference

Series: Symposium on The Muslim Difference
Joshua S. Lupo
February 13, 2025February 20, 2025

Patel’s hope is to offer resources for building a “Muslim modernity” from the sources that have sustained the tradition.

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Sacrality, Land, and Conceptual Fluidity: A Synthetic Response to Dana Lloyd and Barbara Sostaita

Series: CM Conversations
Joshua S. Lupo
December 13, 2024December 18, 2024

Lloyd and Sostaita show us how we might move beyond the sacred/profane binary that both its defenders and critics are parasitic upon.

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Sovereignty, Land, and Religious Freedom: Barbara Sostaita Interviews Dana Lloyd

Series: CM Conversations
Dana Lloyd and Barbara Sostaita
December 11, 2024December 16, 2024

Knowing that they are doomed to lose in a settler court, the Yurok, Karuk, and Tolowa people are doing everything they can to protect the High Country as their kin.

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Reimagining the Sacred: Dana Lloyd Interviews Barbara Sostaita

Series: CM Conversations
Barbara Sostaita and Dana Lloyd
December 9, 2024December 16, 2024

I consider sanctuary and the sacred as life-transforming disruptions of immigration enforcement operations, as these vibrant and ephemeral moments that interrupt the everyday.

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Black Internationalist Dissent and the Black Sacred-as-Maroon Enclave

Taurean J. Webb
July 16, 2024September 30, 2024

To wrestle with this Morehouse-Biden-Palestine moment is to wrestle with the management of a Black internationalist thought project, already presumed fugitive, within a US higher education landscape.

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about “Balkanization” (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Branko Sekuliċ
May 29, 2024September 30, 2024

Nationalism is not an ancient trait of the European Southeast. Rather, it is a classic Western European product.

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Antisemitism and Other Hates

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel
Dania Straughan
May 23, 2024September 30, 2024

The contemporary weaponization of antisemitism is the realization of an ethno-religious state project that purports the only way to imagine Jewish community is as an exclusionary political project predicated on the domination of Palestinians.

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Reimagining Jewish Ethics and Politics in Palestine/Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel
Joshua S. Lupo
May 22, 2024September 30, 2024

Rather than sovereignty and domination, Manekin and Rosen argued that Jewish teachings require followers to side with the marginalized and oppressed.

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