Theorizing Modernities Archives | Page 9 of 30

The Idea of Progress and Its Discontents in Islamic Thought

Ebrahim Moosa
January 10, 2023February 1, 2024

We do know one thing taught by experience: the dominant paradigms need to be continuously contested with alternative ways of knowing, different types of knowledge, and novel models for society-building.

Sacralizing State Politics: Why Does it Matter?

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
November 14, 2022January 19, 2024

When Politics are Sacralized seeks to comparatively reveal racially based nationalist-religious claims, along with the social, cultural, and political articulations of those claims and their significance.

When Politics are Sacralized: Religion and Nationalism in Zimbabwe

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Joram Tarusarira
October 12, 2022January 26, 2024

The fusion between religion and nationalism is not inherent or necessary. It is an instrumentalist relationship that is used to justify and legitimate particular political policies, actions, and imaginaries.

When Politics are Sacralized?

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Raef Zreik
October 6, 2022February 1, 2024

At its core, Zionism is not the political being sacralized, but the religious being politicized.

Sacred States: Beyond the Secular-Religious Dialectic

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
September 28, 2022January 27, 2024

Critical secularist discourse risks reproducing particular modern categories of the religious and the political.

Northern Ireland’s Troubled Relationship with Religion: Structures, Practices, and Definitions

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Gladys Ganiel
September 21, 2022January 19, 2024

The value of comparative volumes such as this one lies in their ability to bring together different examples, identify commonalities and divergences, and impart lessons that can be learned about and applied across various cases.

Introduction to Symposium on When Politics are Sacralized

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Joshua S. Lupo
September 21, 2022October 12, 2022

What the contributors to this symposium show is that it is possible to engage in comparative work that is attentive to history, social and political complexity, and diversity without losing track of the more abstract concepts that are necessary to compare cross-culturally.

The affective, even queer way Maritain and Massignon carried themselves is “modern” in a sense because modernity creates space for the perpetuation of hegemonic norms as well as their subversion.

Theorizing Modernities Articles

The Idea of Progress and Its Discontents in Islamic Thought

Sacralizing State Politics: Why Does it Matter?

When Politics are Sacralized: Religion and Nationalism in Zimbabwe

When Politics are Sacralized?

Sacred States: Beyond the Secular-Religious Dialectic

Northern Ireland’s Troubled Relationship with Religion: Structures, Practices, and Definitions

Introduction to Symposium on When Politics are Sacralized

Why is the Jewish Question Different from All Similar Questions?

A Conversation with Shaul Magid and Friends on Meir Kahane and Political Theology

Modernity, Coloniality, and Interiority in Kindred Spirits