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Articles tagged as "Decolonial"

Marc H. Ellis (Z”L): Living the Prophetic

Series: Remembering Marc H. Ellis
Santiago Slabodsky
July 18, 2024July 19, 2024

The legacy of Dr. Ellis in American Jewish movements in solidarity with Palestine—in liberationist, decolonial, or other forms—is hard to overestimate.

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No Peace without Decolonization: A Lecture and Interview with Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Atalia Omer and Joshua S. Lupo
April 9, 2024April 9, 2024

Decolonial love is about the possibility of connection (and relation) when connection seems completely impossible.

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Enrique Dussel and Latin American Liberation Theologies

Series: Remembering Dussel
Amirah Orozco
March 18, 2024March 18, 2024

Dussel provides us with tools to problematize Eurocentric accounts of religion/secularism broadly, Christianity more specifically, and most fundamentally, the entire discipline of theology.

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Enrique Dussel, Comrade Ancestor

Series: Remembering Dussel
Filipe Maia
February 13, 2024

As the grief for, and the farewells to, the first generation of liberation theologians and philosophers continue to meet us, the living will need to develop strategies to enlist these ancestors as sources for our efforts in the direction of decolonization.

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Decolonizing the Relation Between Philosophy and Theology

Series: Remembering Dussel
Rafael Vizcaíno
January 24, 2024February 1, 2024

One of the most significant legacies of Dussel’s work is the urgency to rethink disciplinary divides with an eye toward epistemic decolonization. 

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Toward a New Discourse on Middle Eastern Christianity

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Mitri Raheb
September 20, 2023January 27, 2024

There is genuine concern among many Christians in the Middle East that “Freedom of Religious Belief” will be weaponized as a platform for populism, religious nationalism, and colonial interventions.

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Metanoia, Hope, and Narrating the Stories of Middle Eastern Christians

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Mourad Takawi
September 14, 2023September 14, 2023

Not only does this book present a much-needed decolonial interruption, but it also affirms the necessity of repentance and reconciliation in ensuring a peaceful and just future.

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Introduction to Symposium on The Politics of Persecution

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Joshua S. Lupo
August 24, 2023December 14, 2023

Raheb’s book puts forward a deep historical engagement that locates the plight of Middle Eastern Christians in a longer arc of colonial history and the history of empires.

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Middle Eastern Christians and Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Candace Lukasik
August 24, 2023January 27, 2024

Minoritization shows its plasticity as it is translated across borders and through empire, sustained by the very contradictions that seemingly undo it.

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Enacting Indigenous Ontologies

Series: Theories of Land
Jeremy Sorgen
August 3, 2023January 27, 2024

Settler moves to innocence exonerate settler cultures from responsibility without having to forfeit privilege and power.

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