Gender Archives | Contending Modernities

The Personal and Political Gendering of Black Love

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

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, 2021October 26, 2021

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, 2021September 9, 2021

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, 2021July 30, 2021

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, 2020November 13, 2020

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.

Hierarchy, Interdependence, and Islamic Ethics

Series: Symposium on Gendered Morality

Saadia Yacoob
November 9, 2020November 9, 2020

The understanding of humans as interconnected in their striving towards ethical excellence carries tremendous potential as a foundational story for the narratives that Muslim feminists construct about human flourishing.