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Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age

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Bibles as Potent Objects in the Political Arena

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Hannah M. Strømmen
December 12, 2023December 12, 2023

Bibles are particularly charged objects, both in terms of the feelings they arouse and in their capacities to act and…

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In-Between Affect: Governing (with) Saints

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Omar Kasmani
December 6, 2023February 1, 2024

The affective in-between is where we feel and thereby know that the Pakistani state is present in scenes of religious intimacy.

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God’s Plan, Or Institutional Violence? Congolese Refugees in Kampala between Hope And Disillusionment

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Alessandro Gusman
November 28, 2023January 27, 2024

Faith in God and in his plans provides room for narratives of hope and a different affective realm for refugees living in insecurity and fear. But even hope fades over the years.

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Turning Away: White Nationalism and a Paraphenomenology of Darkness

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Biko Gray
November 15, 2023January 26, 2024

A paraphenomenology of darkness allows us to see the brutality of history, the violence not simply of statues, but of the fight over statues.

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Affective Un/Belonging: The Coptic Diaspora and Imperial Geographies of Islam

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Candace Lukasik
November 10, 2023January 25, 2024

Right-wing attention to Coptic conditions in Egypt has historically placed diaspora communities in a contradiction-laden position.

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Introducing Enlivening the Nation

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Joshua S. Lupo
November 10, 2023January 27, 2024

This series addresses complex ways in which people become attached to particular understandings of the nation and the role of religion in either supporting or hindering that attachment.

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