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Burning Human Rights Books, Part II: Genocide, Occupation, and Decolonization

Series: The Failure of Human Rights and International Law
Lena Salaymeh
March 19, 2026

What do human rights mean if a state can drop the equivalent of multiple atomic bombs and still claim that the resulting mass civilian deaths were unintentional?

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Burning Human Rights Books, Part I: Modern International Law, War, and Colonialism

Lena Salaymeh
March 17, 2026March 19, 2026

Law does not exist in legal sources, but in the interpretation and application of legal sources.

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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.

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Decolonizing Religion: The Future of Comparative Religious Ethics

Series: Comparative Religious Ethics and Decolonial Thought
Irene Oh
May 29, 2020February 1, 2024

What might scholarship in comparative religious ethics that addresses decolonialism look like?

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Decolonial Ethics and Just War Reasoning

Series: Comparative Religious Ethics and Decolonial Thought
Rosemary Kellison
April 24, 2020February 26, 2026

Achieving a more complete understanding of the variety and pervasiveness of harm that war and warriors inflict on persons should radically change how just war thinkers view the prudence and justice of specific acts of war.

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Decolonial Politics and Religious Ethics: Dismantling Hierarchies

Series: Comparative Religious Ethics and Decolonial Thought
Shannon Dunn
April 15, 2020February 1, 2024

The integrity of religious ethics as a field depends on scholars’ ability to listen to, and take seriously, structural oppression and its relation to definitions of personhood.

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Dignity is Not Power Blind

Dania Straughan
October 12, 2017April 17, 2018

Atrocious things have been perpetrated in societies that also value dignity.

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Hospitality and Empire

Series: Hospitality and Faith
Perin Gürel
May 26, 2017October 4, 2018

Except this time, within this new, muscular, postcolonial hospitality, the erstwhile settler gets to play gracious host.

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Fighting Transphobia: Analyzing the Pakistani Fatwa on Transgender Marriage

Ali Altaf Mian
August 8, 2016January 27, 2024

Retaining, reconfiguring, and renouncing traditional embodiments of sex, gender, and sexuality. Read the full article »

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From London to Rome: Changing the Conversation about Religion

Series: Rome 2016
Atalia Omer
June 27, 2016July 28, 2017

ATALIA OMER

The conference “Making Democracy One’s Own: Muslim, Catholic and Secular Perspectives in Dialogue on Democracy, Development, and Peace” (Rome, May 30-June 1, 2016) sought to strengthen and intervene in theorizing the question of religion and democracy.

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