Epistemology Archives | Contending Modernities

Enrique Dussel and Latin American Liberation Theologies

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.

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.

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.

Islamophobia and Epistemological Ignorance

Uzma Jamil
July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

Islamophobia is sustained, not through personal prejudice, but through a systemic refusal to see Quebec’s own Whiteness as integral to its national identity.

Law and Politics under the Abbasids: A Symposium

Series: Symposium on Law and Politics under the Abbasids

Omar Anchassi
May 4, 2021January 27, 2024

The coherence in the Juwaynian project is by no means assumed in this book. Rather, it is demonstrated through a painstaking reading of a number of his most influential texts in the domains of legal theory and theology.

Epistemology of the Close, Epistemology of the Far

Series: Religion and Modernity during COVID-19

Martin Kavka
June 2, 2020January 27, 2024

The blood of Jesus may indeed have ontological properties that cure every disease, but it is the epistemological story about this cure that is more vexing for the Christian than the ontology of disease.

Painted into a Corner by the Blood of the Lord

Series: Religion and Modernity during COVID-19

Robert Orsi
April 29, 2020January 26, 2024

I accept the ontology of facts as given: she continues to shop at Walmart in a pandemic because she is protected by the blood of the Lord in which she has been washed.

Historicity and Discursivity, Religious and Secular: Responding to the Rome Conference 2015

Series: Rome 2015

Ebrahim Moosa
August 17, 2015January 24, 2024

Rather than fixating on the authority of past authorities and their social imaginaries, the discursive approach negotiates conceptions of the human person by way of historicizing and complexly rereading the tradition.

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