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Were There—and Can There Be—Arab Jews? (With Afterthoughts on the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism and Palestinian Jews)

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions
Moshe Behar
September 8, 2021September 23, 2021

The political realm must be tightly woven into every historical and contemporary reflection on Arab Jews.

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Weaponizing Antisemitism under the Guise of Care

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty
Joyce Dalsheim
September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Suggesting that Jews are disloyal to the modern state of Israel is a form of antisemitism, thinly veiled in terms of caring about Jews.

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Catholic Conceptions of Personhood and Gene Editing

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series
Aline Kalbian
August 9, 2019August 9, 2019

Understanding how the Catholic faith community navigates a path between fear of technological overreach and the pursuit of medical advances allows us to see the complexity of the relationship between human identity and genetic intervention.

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Beyond Aztlán: Latina/o/x Students Let Go of Their Mythic Homeland

Jacqueline Hidalgo
April 11, 2019May 6, 2023

Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress.

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“Faith-by-Birth”? Community and Religious Identity

Sydney Schlager
October 16, 2018

I am Catholic because my mother lost her driver’s license when I was seventeen.

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Particular and Capacious? A Reflection on Identity and Solidarity

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities
Slavica Jakelić
September 7, 2018November 18, 2020

Do particular national experiences and historical locations constrain or broaden one’s ethical commitments?

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Other Jerusalem Realities: The “City of Prayer” in Palestinian Nationalist Imaginaries

Series: Jerusalem
Loren Lybarger
December 23, 2017January 3, 2018

Jerusalem features in diverging Palestinian discourses of territorial inclusivity versus religiously-based exclusion in the context of Israel’s military, settler, and structural violence.

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The Role of Heritage and Tradition (Turāth) in the Search for Muslim Identity

Series: Beyond Coexistence
Ebrahim Moosa
November 2, 2017November 3, 2017

Without careful nurturing and dedicated attention to the past as well as the present, tradition becomes an instrument of power, and a source of learned ignorance.

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Intersectionality of Religion and Social Identity: The Chinese of Banda Aceh

Series: Non-Muslims in Aceh
Eka Srimulyani
June 13, 2017October 4, 2018

In Aceh, contemporary narratives have strengthened insider/outsider identities, relegating native ethnic Chinese citizens to “outsiders” and limiting their ability to publicly practice their culture.

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Inter-Religious Literacy Among Young People in Indonesia: Contrasting Frameworks

Series: Adams Zemmrich
Eckhard Zemmrich and Nicholas Adams
April 18, 2017

Religious identity is often a deep and fundamental concern for Europeans, yet some Indonesian intellectuals suggest religious affiliation is as much an administrative matter as one of deep personal conviction.

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