Catholicism Archives | Contending Modernities

Introduction to Symposium on Who Are My People?

Joshua Lupo
April 6, 2023May 23, 2023

Katongole listens not only to the stories people tell, but listens for the patterns enfolded within them, and the larger tapestry those patterns make up.

Modernity, Coloniality, and Interiority in Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Brenna Moore
May 4, 2022May 4, 2022

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.

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.

Introduction to Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Joshua 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.

Politics, Religion, and the Priority of Belief

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Giuliana Chamedes
April 26, 2021

We too need to come out from behind the curtain and frame the “so-what” of our story not just in terms of scholarly debates, but with careful attention to what our story can illuminate about the human condition.

The Enduring Appeal of Christian Europe

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Paul Hanebrink
April 21, 2021

A Twentieth-Century Crusade reveals just how closely the civic components of Catholic internationalism imitated aspects of its Communist rival—or, more precisely, of Communism as it was imagined in Rome.

Twentieth-Century Crusades and Crusaders Reimagined

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Cara Burnidge
April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

The “religious” figure and body in this book is not a “faith-based” “non-state actor” seeking to share gospel stories or convert others, but rather a state actor focused on further developing its legal power and political authority.

Introduction to Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Joshua Lupo
April 15, 2021April 26, 2021

This book presents the heretofore understudied history of Catholic international diplomacy in the early- to mid-twentieth century.

Catholicism in Need of Critical Caretaking

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Scott Appleby
April 13, 2021April 15, 2021

So intent was the Vatican on “protecting the Church” that even the horrors of the Holocaust, not lost on Pope Pius XII, failed to scandalize Catholic diplomats and other officials into reconsidering the rights of religious minorities and championing religious freedom.