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Identities, Boundaries, and Nationalisms: A Synthetic Response to Greenberg and Bloch

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Will O'Brien
March 10, 2026

Is there space in the genealogies of religious nationalism for a roadmap away from authoritarian exclusion?

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The Politics of Protestant-Catholic Reconciliation in Europe: Brandon Bloch Interviews Udi Greenberg

Series: CM Conversations
Udi Greenberg and Brandon Bloch
February 24, 2026February 26, 2026

Catholics and Protestants understood each other vis-à-vis new movements that sought to transform economic, gendered, and colonial orders.

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Protestant Germany after Nazism: Udi Greenberg Interviews Brandon Bloch

Series: CM Conversations
Brandon Bloch and Udi Greenberg
February 17, 2026

Postwar Protestant intellectuals spearheaded a complementary but distinct form of secularization: one in which the church did not retreat from politics but identified itself as the very source of secular democratic principles.

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Mysticism, the Ordinary, and the Sacred: An Interview with Andrew Prevot

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Andrew Prevot and Joshua S. Lupo
December 10, 2025December 12, 2025

Theological mysticism is not anti-normative per se. It is only hostile to those norms that unjustly stigmatize, imperil, or otherwise harm the precious, mysterious creatures God has made.

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

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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

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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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