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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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Theorizing Modernities Articles

When Politics are Sacralized?

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Raef Zreik
October 6, 2022October 6, 2022

At its core, Zionism is not the political being sacralized, but the religious being politicized.

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Sacred States: Beyond the Secular-Religious Dialectic

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
September 28, 2022

Critical secularist discourse risks reproducing particular modern categories of the religious and the political.

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Northern Ireland’s Troubled Relationship with Religion: Structures, Practices, and Definitions

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Gladys Ganiel
September 21, 2022September 21, 2022

The value of comparative volumes such as this one lies in their ability to bring together different examples, identify commonalities and divergences, and impart lessons that can be learned about and applied across various cases.

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Introduction to Symposium on When Politics are Sacralized

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Joshua Lupo
September 21, 2022October 12, 2022

What the contributors to this symposium show is that it is possible to engage in comparative work that is attentive to history, social and political complexity, and diversity without losing track of the more abstract concepts that are necessary to compare cross-culturally.

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Why is the Jewish Question Different from All Similar Questions?

Brian Klug
August 29, 2022September 13, 2022

The National Question was about ethnic difference and how Europe should deal with it. The Jewish Question was about the alien within—so deep within as to be internal to Europe’s idea of itself.

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A Conversation with Shaul Magid and Friends on Meir Kahane and Political Theology

Joshua Lupo
August 10, 2022

Magid’s book and this discussion draw attention to how coloniality and modernity, especially in their religious elements, continue to perpetuate racism, misogyny, and xenophobia today.

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Modernity, Coloniality, and Interiority in Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Brenna Moore
May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

The affective, even queer way Maritain and Massignon carried themselves is “modern” in a sense because modernity creates space for the perpetuation of hegemonic norms as well as their subversion.

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Modern Mystic Activist Scholars Resist Fascism, Colonialism, and Definitional Pigeonholing: A Comment on Brenna Moore’s Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Scott Appleby
April 26, 2022

The story Moore tells of these boundary-dwelling thinkers underscores the necessity to resist facile reliance on gender, race, and nation as stable categories by which to understand the fluidity of the modern period and modern identities.

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Catholic Friendship, Porosity, and the “Coloniality of Being”

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Kathleen Holscher
April 20, 2022

Reading Kindred Spirits helps me to ask new questions about porosity in friendships between Catholics and Native peoples, and specifically about how porosity positions Catholic friendships in relation to the sovereignty of the U.S. nation-state.

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What Does It Mean to Be Religious?

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Niloofar Haeri
April 13, 2022

Among the various correctives that Moore’s book provides is to the widely held idea that doctrine plays a primary role in attracting individuals to religion.

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