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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

Enacting Indigenous Ontologies

Series: Theories of Land
Jeremy Sorgen
August 3, 2023January 27, 2024

Settler moves to innocence exonerate settler cultures from responsibility without having to forfeit privilege and power.

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Decolonizing the Tabernacle

Series: Theories of Land
Elisha Chi
August 2, 2023January 27, 2024

What does it mean for Jesus to be materially and physically supported by land soaked in the blood of enslavement and genocide?

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Living on Indigenous Lands: (Re)Considering Relations with Occupied Lands

Series: Theories of Land
Abel R. Gomez
July 27, 2023January 25, 2024

Considering our relations and responsibilities to land invites us to make other choices, ones that might guide us, perhaps, towards being in good relations with the land and the Indigenous peoples of that place.

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What Kind of Tradition is Black and Radical?

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity
Vincent Lloyd
July 26, 2023February 1, 2024

The Black radical tradition is unified not by empirical facts about people or histories but by a shared commitment to struggle against the paradigm of domination (slavery and its afterlives).

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Black Women and the Political Performance for Environmental, Territorial, and Human Rights on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Series: Theories of Land
Kaché H. Claytor
July 25, 2023February 1, 2024

Black women have been at the forefront of authoring pathways to futurity through their care work, spiritual customs, performance cultures, aesthetic practices, philosophies, and activist movements.

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More Than a Land of Open Graves: How the Sonoran Desert Refuses Capture

Series: Theories of Land
Barbara Sostaita
July 20, 2023

The desert’s sacred energies are an unruly affront to enforcement agents who seek possession or mastery.

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Introduction to Theories of Land

Series: Theories of Land
Dana Lloyd
July 20, 2023August 17, 2023

We need to listen to the land itself in order to theorize better, in order to live better.

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The Personal and Political Gendering of Black Love

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity
Traci C. West
July 18, 2023January 19, 2024

Cleaver’s perspective may exemplify the struggle for freedom from anti-black racist and capitalist domination. But it also stresses a certain kind of domination of Black women by maintaining a black androcentric worldview as freeing.

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Struggling Against Domination: The Ontology of Black Life Everywhere

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity
Siphiwe Dube
July 11, 2023February 1, 2024

The only way for Black people to achieve freedom and, consequently, dignity, is by acting collectively.

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On the Kind of Life One Lives: Another Offering to All from #BlackLivesMatter

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity
Rosetta Ross
July 6, 2023January 27, 2024

The spirituality of Black dignity is a way of living; it seeks congruity of the world with BLM’s continually developing inner visions.

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