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

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.

The Rising Call to Codify Gender Apartheid: Epistemic Resistance and International Accountability

Tahmina Sobat
November 21, 2024April 3, 2025

Transnational solidarities should focus on challenging patriarchal structures and the imperialist systems that sustain them.

The Personal and Political Gendering of Black Love

Series: Symposium on Black Dignity

Traci C. West
July 18, 2023January 19, 2024

Cleaver’s perspective may exemplify the struggle for freedom from anti-black racist and capitalist domination. But it also stresses a certain kind of domination of Black women by maintaining a black androcentric worldview as freeing.

Methods of Theological Engagement in Who are My People?: A Response to Critical Questions

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?

Emmanuel Katongole
May 23, 2023May 24, 2023

I work with the assumption that the logic of the cross transforms both power and justice, both justice and mercy, into the reconciling love of God.

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Doing African Political Theology Outside the Box with Emmanuel Katongole

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?

Emmanuel Ojeifo
May 11, 2023May 23, 2023

The remarkable Christian individuals in the book are given significant attention because of their theological vitality and social agency.

Identity, Theology, and Friendship in Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond

Series: Symposium on Who Are My People?

Marie-Claire Klassen
April 14, 2023May 23, 2023

Katongole’s reflections on friendship challenge us to move beyond mere intellectual considerations of identity and call for concrete action to build relationships across the boundaries that typically divide us.

On Decolonizing Queer Studies

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Sa'ed Atshan
October 26, 2021January 27, 2024

This essay draws upon van Klinken’s book as a launching pad to think through decolonizing queer studies more broadly.

QAnon, Conspiracy, and White Evangelical Apocalypse

Series: Zombie Nationalism

Jason Springs
June 16, 2021February 1, 2024

Ethno-religious nationalism—and the distinctive logic and dynamics of zombie nationalism—forms the connective tissue between much White evangelicalism and QAnon conspiracy ideology.

Introduction to Zombie Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism

Jason Springs
June 16, 2021February 1, 2024

The Trump-infused ethno-religious nationalism of White evangelicals is but the most recent upsurge of a political and cultural current that is traceable back at least sixty years, and indeed, much further.

Response to Gendered Morality Symposium

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality

Zahra Ayubi
November 10, 2020January 27, 2024

I do not want to throw out the akhlaq texts because I think they do help us think about what it means to live a good life. I just think that we may be better off taking their questions as important ones to be answered, without adopting their answers.

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