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Border-Crossers: Interrogating Boundaries through Bodies

Series: Ansari Conference 2018

Lailatul Fitriyah
January 16, 2019August 23, 2019

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 marginalized others as ‘border-crossers.’

Sustainable Resources: Reimagining Our Relationship with the Earth

Series: Ansari Conference 2018

Marie-Claire Klassen
January 11, 2019January 18, 2019

In the age of the anthropocene—climate change brought about by human actions—religious traditions can offer vital resources for reimagining a sustainable relationship between humans, other animals, and the earth.

US border wall meets the Pacific in Tijuana.

Welcoming Complexity Together

Series: Ansari Conference 2018

Dania Straughan
January 11, 2019January 21, 2019

Religion and flourishing at the 2018 inaugural conference for the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion.

Islamophobia Is Not Racism

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities

Melani McAlister
October 2, 2018October 4, 2018

Imperialism and structural inequalities are highly relevant to the post-Cold War framing of Islam on a global scale, but neither race or “phobia” captures the full complexity of the power dynamics at play.

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.