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Costly Solidarity

Contending Modernities
May 8, 2025May 8, 2025

On March 25, 2025, Palestinian reverend and theologian Dr. Munther Isaac joined the broader community of the University of Notre…

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Can “the Ghosts of Religion Past” Rest in Peace? The Churches and Alternative Futures on the Island of Ireland

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures
Gladys Ganiel
January 11, 2024January 30, 2024

In the twenty-first century, the island’s churches have, at least haltingly, begun to reckon with their sins of sectarianism and abuse.

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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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“Man of Letters” vs “Man of God”: Pentecostal Pastors and Contemporary Nigerian Writers

Series: Symposium on Pastoral Power Clerical State
Adriaan van Klinken
October 4, 2023January 25, 2024

It might be too early to declare the “Men of Letters” as belonging to yesterday. 

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Doing African Political Theology Outside the Box with Emmanuel Katongole

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?
Emmanuel Ojeifo
May 11, 2023May 23, 2023

The remarkable Christian individuals in the book are given significant attention because of their theological vitality and social agency.

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Katongole’s Quest for the African Christian Identity

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?
William Orbih
May 8, 2023May 23, 2023

Christian identity is not a static essence, spiritual or otherwise. Rather, it is an invitation to a journey with a definite direction and telos.

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Identity, Theology, and Friendship in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?
Marie-Claire Klassen
April 14, 2023May 23, 2023

Katongole’s reflections on friendship challenge us to move beyond mere intellectual considerations of identity and call for concrete action to build relationships across the boundaries that typically divide us.

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Religion, Politics, and Trump’s Christian Nationalism

Scott Hibbard
August 11, 2022January 26, 2024

It was not a Christian ethic that drew conservative Christians to Donald Trump, but rather a sense of political tribalism and a base transactionalism.

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Religion, LGBTIQ+ Bodies, and Arts of Resistance in Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Esther Mombo
October 5, 2021January 27, 2024

The narratives that LGBTIQ+ persons relay to van Klinken serve as data points that can then be used to show the folly of those who think LGBTIQ+ persons do not exist or are not worthy of receiving recognition.

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Religion, Humanitarianism, and Decolonization

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Emma Tomalin
July 27, 2021

There is a need to broaden approaches to the religion-development nexus and to develop a new conceptual perspective that moves beyond prioritizing the agenda of secular global development institutions and instead critically examines their rhetoric and practices.

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