Decolonial Archives | Contending Modernities

Toward a New Discourse on Middle Eastern Christianity

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution

Mitri Raheb
September 20, 2023September 20, 2023

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.

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.

Introduction to Symposium on The Politics of Persecution

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution

Joshua S. Lupo
August 24, 2023September 20, 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.

Middle Eastern Christians and Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution

Candace Lukasik
August 24, 2023August 28, 2023

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

Enacting Indigenous Ontologies

Series: Theories of Land

Jeremy Sorgen
August 3, 2023

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

Decolonizing the Tabernacle

Series: Theories of Land

Elisha Chi
August 2, 2023August 3, 2023

What does it mean for Jesus to be materially and physically supported by land soaked in the blood of enslavement and genocide?

Black Women and the Political Performance for Environmental, Territorial, and Human Rights on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Series: Theories of Land

Kaché H. Claytor
July 25, 2023August 10, 2023

Black women have been at the forefront of authoring pathways to futurity through their care work, spiritual customs, performance cultures, aesthetic practices, philosophies, and activist movements.

Introduction to Theories of Land

Series: Theories of Land

Dana Lloyd
July 20, 2023August 17, 2023

We need to listen to the land itself in order to theorize better, in order to live better.

Christian and African Identities vis-à-vis Postcolonial Ecologies

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?

Cecelia Lynch
May 3, 2023May 23, 2023

Identities are deeply imbricated and our “journeys” to the discovery and rediscovery of them take effort and sacrifice, but are the only way to renewal.

On the Advantage of Not Fitting In: Religious-National Identities as Border-Living

Slavica Jakelić
November 2, 2022November 4, 2022

Only when the Balkans are considered as succumbing to neither Northern nor Southern theoretical or praxis-oriented frameworks, can we ensure that all ways of being and living locally are truly listened to.

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