Critique Archives | Contending Modernities

The Discipline and Gift: A Theological Critique of David Newheiser’s Hope in a Secular Age

Series: Symposium on Hope in a Secular Age

Carolyn Chau
March 3, 2026

It is in allowing ourselves to contemplate the mystery of divine being, who gives itself over to us in contemplative prayer, that we are truly alive to our contingency and our belovedness.

Letter from Scholars of the Holocaust, Jewish History, and Antisemitism Against the Adoption of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism in New Jersey

Raz Segal
January 11, 2026January 11, 2026

Targeting Jews for the way they express themselves as Jews is very clearly not part of a struggle against antisemitism, but antisemitic itself.

Abundant Religious Pluralism

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Robert Orsi
May 30, 2025May 30, 2025

Santa Rosalia’s welcoming of the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu refugees . . . tells us that the gods, who have their own intentions in their relationships with humans, may be practitioners of decolonial love too.