Feminism Archives | Contending Modernities

The Urgency of Idolatry Critique: A Synthetic Response to Yadgar and Cavanaugh

Atalia Omer
July 22, 2025July 22, 2025

Decolonial scholarship pushes the critique of the secular/modern beyond the analysis of idolatry by engaging with the question of religion and colonialism through a robust interrogation of racialization.

A Transnational Feminist Reflection on “Doing Religion” and “Knowing Religion”

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Keunjoo Christine Pae
June 6, 2025June 10, 2025

Without critical analysis of the gendered, racialized, and sexualized asymmetry of power . . . interreligious peacebuilding serves only a heteropatriarchal neocolonialism.

Indian Occupation in Kashmir: From State Building to Dismantling the State

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir

Ather Zia
March 25, 2025March 25, 2025

The reduction of Kashmiris into simplistic tropes reinforces a colonizer-colonized dynamic, one which has enabled the Indian state to justify its control over the region.