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Decolonizing the Practices of Religion in International Relations

Atalia Omer
July 15, 2021February 1, 2024

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.

Not Every Radical Philosophy is Decolonial

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Santiago Slabodsky
June 4, 2020February 1, 2024

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.