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Symposium on Kindred Spirits

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Modernity, Coloniality, and Interiority in Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Brenna Moore
May 4, 2022February 1, 2024

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.

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Modern Mystic Activist Scholars Resist Fascism, Colonialism, and Definitional Pigeonholing: A Comment on Brenna Moore’s Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Scott Appleby
April 26, 2022

The story Moore tells of these boundary-dwelling thinkers underscores the necessity to resist facile reliance on gender, race, and nation as stable categories by which to understand the fluidity of the modern period and modern identities.

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Catholic Friendship, Porosity, and the “Coloniality of Being”

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Kathleen Holscher
April 20, 2022February 1, 2024

Reading Kindred Spirits helps me to ask new questions about porosity in friendships between Catholics and Native peoples, and specifically about how porosity positions Catholic friendships in relation to the sovereignty of the U.S. nation-state.

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What Does It Mean to Be Religious?

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Niloofar Haeri
April 13, 2022

Among the various correctives that Moore’s book provides is to the widely held idea that doctrine plays a primary role in attracting individuals to religion.

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Introduction to Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
Joshua S. Lupo
April 13, 2022December 9, 2022

By bringing Moore’s insights to their work, these contributors open up space for thought that break through the modern boundaries of nation, discipline, and thought.

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