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Religion, Politics, and Trump’s Christian Nationalism

Scott Hibbard
August 11, 2022August 17, 2022

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, 2021

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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Decolonizing the Practices of Religion in International Relations

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Atalia Omer
July 15, 2021

Lynch shows that the postsecular discovery of religion does not constitute a departure from the symbiosis of Christianity and secular modernity, but rather represents its perpetuation through other idioms and technologies.

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Not Every Radical Philosophy is Decolonial

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion
Santiago Slabodsky
June 4, 2020October 5, 2020

If for the continental philosopher there is no possibility of thinking outside Europe, for the colonially appointed philosopher of religion there is no possibility of existence outside a totalizing Christian framework.

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Beyond the Performance of Interfaith Solidarity

Series: Christchurch and Beyond
Atalia Omer
June 11, 2019August 23, 2019

Profound expressions of interfaith solidarity must disrupt the deep legacy of “faith” as an instrument of empire.

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Reading Frankenstein in a Time of Germline Editing

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series
Daniel Daly
May 6, 2019May 16, 2019

Personal and collective experience shows us that children rightly desire to be received and accepted by their parents as gifts, regardless of their abilities or genetic makeup.

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Producing Motherhood? Uterus Transplantation for Infertility

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series
Aasim Padela
April 1, 2019April 3, 2019

Uterus transplant makes visible the ways in which social expectations and ideas about the normative body interact with the ethical ends of medicine.

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Islamophobia Is Not Racism

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities
Melani McAlister
October 2, 2018October 4, 2018

Imperialism and structural inequalities are highly relevant to the post-Cold War framing of Islam on a global scale, but neither race or “phobia” captures the full complexity of the power dynamics at play.

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Religious Nationalism and Right Wing Populism: Trumpism and Beyond

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities
Philip Gorski
August 6, 2018August 7, 2019

Of course, not all religious conservatives feel attracted to the populist message. Which do? Religious nationalists.

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