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Abundant Religious Pluralism

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Robert Orsi
May 30, 2025May 30, 2025

Santa Rosalia’s welcoming of the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu refugees . . . tells us that the gods, who have their own intentions in their relationships with humans, may be practitioners of decolonial love too.

Of Hostility and Irrelevance

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

Rajbir Singh Judge
May 27, 2025May 27, 2025

Why do we always need more voices, traces, and archives? What does such inclusion, connection, and assimilation promise?

Refusal as Method in Rajbir Singh Judge’s Prophetic Maharaja

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

Harini Kumar
May 20, 2025May 20, 2025

Refusal remains a potent idea across disciplinary silos, and the refusals in Judge’s book offer provocations that scholars will be contending with for some time.

Contention, Dwelling, and the Loss of Loss

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

Randeep Singh Hothi
May 15, 2025

The caution against fixation radicalizes the possibility of learning, because neither method nor object can be guaranteed by the recuperation of what is lost.

Loss, Sovereignty and the Sikh Tradition: India and the World

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

Nirvikar Singh
May 13, 2025May 16, 2025

The material problems of Indian Punjab will not be solved by a Khalsa Raj. Political autonomy will do nothing by itself to shift Punjab’s economy out of a destructive and unsustainable trap of growing wheat and rice for India’s food security.

The Limits of Critique and the Horizon of Gender Abolition in the Sikh Tradition

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

manmit singh
May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

The insistence that queerness and transness are everywhere is an insistence that the Divine is everywhere.

The Mute Eloquence of Impossible Histories

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

Purnima Dhavan
May 1, 2025

There is room to embrace the ethics of the vision in this book while still historicizing profusely and even counter-historicizing.

Introduction to Prophetic Maharaja

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja

Joshua S. Lupo
May 1, 2025May 27, 2025

Judge suggests that the past never contains the certainties we like to project onto it, and thus that the present is unlikely to contain them either.

(Settler) Colonial Logics Beyond Europe

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir

Hafsa Kanjwal
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025

Values that are seen as having a “positive” valence, such as state-building, democracy, development, and secularism are often weapons of colonial occupation.