Anthropology Archives | Contending Modernities

Reason’s Idols: A Response to Khan Asfandyar Shairani and Joshua S. Lupo

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Khaled Furani
February 23, 2023September 15, 2024

If revelation is arguably the humbler of reason, when might we reasonably expect reason to be capable of humbling revelation? When might a rock humble the rain?

Mining for Theology: The Limits of the Postsecular in Khaled Furani’s Redeeming Anthropology

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Joshua S. Lupo
February 21, 2023January 27, 2024

Why do we need idolatry to recognize our false claims to possess the absolute, when fallibilism will do? Is it just to offer religious people a piece of the secular pie?

Smashing Modernity’s Idols and Redeeming our Past(s)

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Khan Shairani
February 17, 2023January 27, 2024

Historians’ work has to engage with the present because their work, in fact, never reaches the past. It is written for living and breathing people today and in the future.

Introducing The Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Joshua S. Lupo
January 31, 2023January 24, 2024

Inspired by the work of Ebrahim Moosa, this symposium addresses challenging questions about how to confront Islamophobia in west and how to reimagine the study of religion today.

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Reason’s Idols: A Response to Khan Asfandyar Shairani and Joshua S. Lupo

Mining for Theology: The Limits of the Postsecular in Khaled Furani’s Redeeming Anthropology

Smashing Modernity’s Idols and Redeeming our Past(s)

Introducing The Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium