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Bibles Belong to All of Us: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Interviews Hannah Strømmen

Series: CM Conversations
Hannah M. Strømmen and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
August 4, 2025August 4, 2025

Taking affective investments seriously can be transformative for understanding the staying power of trends and tendencies in biblical reception.

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Bibles Belong to All of Us: Masculinity, Civilization, and the Bibles of the Far Right

Series: CM Conversations
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
August 1, 2025

What does a focus on biblical assemblages together with the far-right allow us to see anew?

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The Urgency of Idolatry Critique: A Synthetic Response to Yadgar and Cavanaugh

Series: CM Conversations
Atalia Omer
July 22, 2025July 22, 2025

Decolonial scholarship pushes the critique of the secular/modern beyond the analysis of idolatry by engaging with the question of religion and colonialism through a robust interrogation of racialization.

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Nation Statism and the Jewish Tradition: William Cavanaugh Interviews Yaacov Yadgar

Series: CM Conversations
Yaacov Yadgar and William Cavanaugh
July 16, 2025July 23, 2025

I think it is a given that the multiplicity of human languages, traditions, practices, etc. diversify and enrich our ways of being in the world; this multiplicity is a good thing.

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Critiquing the Idolatry of Nationalism: Yaacov Yadgar Interviews William Cavanaugh

Series: CM Conversations
William Cavanaugh and Yaacov Yadgar
July 14, 2025July 14, 2025

The myth that we are disenchanted is a form of self-congratulation used to marginalize those who do not fit the secular paradigm

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Sacrality, Land, and Conceptual Fluidity: A Synthetic Response to Dana Lloyd and Barbara Sostaita

Series: CM Conversations
Joshua S. Lupo
December 13, 2024December 18, 2024

Lloyd and Sostaita show us how we might move beyond the sacred/profane binary that both its defenders and critics are parasitic upon.

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Sovereignty, Land, and Religious Freedom: Barbara Sostaita Interviews Dana Lloyd

Series: CM Conversations
Dana Lloyd and Barbara Sostaita
December 11, 2024December 16, 2024

Knowing that they are doomed to lose in a settler court, the Yurok, Karuk, and Tolowa people are doing everything they can to protect the High Country as their kin.

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Reimagining the Sacred: Dana Lloyd Interviews Barbara Sostaita

Series: CM Conversations
Barbara Sostaita and Dana Lloyd
December 9, 2024December 16, 2024

I consider sanctuary and the sacred as life-transforming disruptions of immigration enforcement operations, as these vibrant and ephemeral moments that interrupt the everyday.

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