University of Notre Dame Press Contending Modernities Series
As a collaboration between the Contending Modernities initiative and the University of Notre Dame Press, the Contending Modernities series seeks through interdisciplinary publications to generate new knowledge and greater understanding of the ways in which religious and secular forces interact in the modern world. Books in this series may include, but are not limited to, monographs and edited collections that explore the ways in which Islam, Catholicism, and secularism engage and encounter each other today.
Recent and Upcoming Publications
Engaging the Madrasa: Education and Islamic
Thought in a Changing World
Ebrahim Moosa and Joshua Lupo, eds. (2025)
Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty: Genres of
Tradition in Muslim South Asia
Ali Altaf Mian (2026)
After Essentialism: A Critical Phenomenology
for Religious Studies
Joshua Lupo (2027)
Theory
Religion, Modernity, and the Global
Afterlives of Colonialism
Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo, eds. (2024)
Religion, Populism, and Modernity: Confronting
White Christian Nationalism and Racism
Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo (2023)
Religion and Broken Solidarities
Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism
Atalia Omer and Joshua Lupo, eds. (2022)
Authority, Community, and Identity
Shari’a, Citizenship, and Identity in ACEH
Arskal Salim, Moch. Nur Ichwan, Eka Srimulyani,
and Marzi Afriko (2025)
Youth Education and Islamic Radicalism: Religious
Intolerance in Contemporary Indonesia
Mun’im Sirry (2024)
The Politics of Gender Reform in West Africa
Family, Religion, and the State
Ludovic Lado (2023)
Pastoral Power, Clerical State
Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria
Ebenezer Obadare (2022)
Who Are My People?
Love, Violence, and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emmanuel Katongole (2022)
Indonesian Pluralities: Islam, Citizenship, and Democracy
Robert Hefner and Zainal Bagir, eds. (2021)
Islam and Christian Muslim Relations: Contending Modernities in Indonesia
(2020)
Science and the Human Person
(2019)
Bioethics, Social Justice and the Human Person: Catholic, Muslim and Secular Thinkers in Dialogue
(2014)
Global Migration & the New Cosmopolitanism
Inclusive Populism
Creating Citizens in the Global Age
Angus Ritchie (2019)
Making Multiculturalism Work: Enabling Practical Action Across Deep Difference
David Barclay (2013)
Taking Back the Streets: Citizens’ Responses to the 2011 Riots
Angus Ritchie and Caitlin Burbridge (2013)
Faith and the Politics of ‘Other’: Community Organising Amongst London’s Congolese Diaspora
Caitlin Burbridge (2013)
Caitlin Burbridge (2013)
Community Organising and Congregating Values
Ruhana Ali (2013)
From Goodness to God: Why Religion Makes Sense of our Moral Commitments
Angus Ritchie (2012)
Ruhana Ali, Lina Jamoul, and Yusufi Vali (2012)
Other Publications by Contending Modernities Scholars
The Idea of Progress and Its Discontents in Islamic Thought
Ebrahim Moosa (2022)
Scriptural Polemics: The Qur’an and Other Religions
Mun’im Sirry (2014)
Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict & Peace
Edited by Atalia Omer, R. Scott Appleby, and David Little (2015)