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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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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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Religion, Politics, and the Orange Order in Northern Ireland: Defending Protestant Britain in the Age of Secularism

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures
Cathal McManus
February 20, 2024

Is it possible for the Orange Order to reimagine itself in a manner that allows it to protect its core principles but at the same time become a force for political, cultural, and religious reconciliation?

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Reframing the Past and Imagining the Future of Post-Brexit Northern Ireland

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures
Thomas Tweed
February 6, 2024February 6, 2024

Maybe new frames, metaphors, and terms can help Islanders confront the legacy of the past on the island of Ireland.

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Modern “Derry Girls”: How Teens Navigate Polarization in a Post-conflict Society

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures
Jocelyn Dautel and Bethany Corbett
January 31, 2024February 6, 2024

A holistic approach is needed to study how polarized information is transmitted through traditional, structurally embedded narratives and systems that intersect with new information sources and modern values.

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Christian Zionism and the Apocalyptic Landscape of Gaza

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures
Tristan Sturm
January 24, 2024February 1, 2024

This nationalism is religious at its core, sprung from a set of interpretations of the Bible that identifies the Jewish return to Israel as a prophetic sign of the imminence of the apocalypse.

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The Political Theology of Traditionalism: Steve Bannon, the Far Right, and the End of Days

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures
Joshua S. Lupo
January 16, 2024January 30, 2024

It is perhaps an overstatement to claim that Bannon himself is a full-fledged Traditionalist. . . yet there is clear evidence that he finds aspects of the movement appealing and is even willing to implement them within the halls of power.

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Can “the Ghosts of Religion Past” Rest in Peace? The Churches and Alternative Futures on the Island of Ireland

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures
Gladys Ganiel
January 11, 2024January 30, 2024

In the twenty-first century, the island’s churches have, at least haltingly, begun to reckon with their sins of sectarianism and abuse.

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Bibles as Potent Objects in the Political Arena

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Hannah M. Strømmen
December 12, 2023December 12, 2023

Bibles are particularly charged objects, both in terms of the feelings they arouse and in their capacities to act and…

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In-Between Affect: Governing (with) Saints

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Omar Kasmani
December 6, 2023February 1, 2024

The affective in-between is where we feel and thereby know that the Pakistani state is present in scenes of religious intimacy.

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God’s Plan, Or Institutional Violence? Congolese Refugees in Kampala between Hope And Disillusionment

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Alessandro Gusman
November 28, 2023January 27, 2024

Faith in God and in his plans provides room for narratives of hope and a different affective realm for refugees living in insecurity and fear. But even hope fades over the years.

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