Theorizing Modernities Archives | Page 8 of 30

Theology, Ethnography, and the Question of Genre: A Response to Emmanuel Katongole’s Who Are My People?

Todd Whitmore
April 6, 2023May 23, 2023

The fundamental aim and primary achievement of the book is to offer empirical grounds for hope, and in this it succeeds tremendously.

Introduction to Symposium on Who Are My People?

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?

Joshua S. Lupo
April 6, 2023May 23, 2023

Katongole listens not only to the stories people tell, but listens for the patterns enfolded within them, and the larger tapestry those patterns make up.

The Injured Body: Palestine, Mizrahi Jews, and the Imperial Politics of Color

Mara Ahmed and Shirly Bahar
March 24, 2023January 25, 2024

The documentary performances powerfully politicize pain by shaping it as a relational event that took place between the performing person and the state, and is lingering in the person’s body and ways of speaking, expressing, and representing themselves to this day.

Reason’s Idols: A Response to Khan Asfandyar Shairani and Joshua S. Lupo

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Khaled Furani
February 23, 2023September 15, 2024

If revelation is arguably the humbler of reason, when might we reasonably expect reason to be capable of humbling revelation? When might a rock humble the rain?

Mining for Theology: The Limits of the Postsecular in Khaled Furani’s Redeeming Anthropology

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Joshua S. Lupo
February 21, 2023January 27, 2024

Why do we need idolatry to recognize our false claims to possess the absolute, when fallibilism will do? Is it just to offer religious people a piece of the secular pie?

Smashing Modernity’s Idols and Redeeming our Past(s)

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Khan Shairani
February 17, 2023January 27, 2024

Historians’ work has to engage with the present because their work, in fact, never reaches the past. It is written for living and breathing people today and in the future.

Response to Mirza Inaugural Symposium Essays on the Muslim Question

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Anne Norton
February 15, 2023January 24, 2024

There are broad zones of ambiguity and aporia in every culture. And it is in those zones that one can find promise and potential.

At the End of Reason: On Anne Norton on the Muslim Question

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Mahmoud Youness
February 7, 2023February 9, 2023

When the western imaginary happened to be puritanical, Muslims were cast as lascivious and dissolute, when the western imaginary loosened up a bit, Muslims became sexually suppressed.

Introducing The Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Joshua S. Lupo
January 31, 2023January 24, 2024

Inspired by the work of Ebrahim Moosa, this symposium addresses challenging questions about how to confront Islamophobia in west and how to reimagine the study of religion today.