Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
The political realm must be tightly woven into every historical and contemporary reflection on Arab Jews.
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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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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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Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress.
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I am Catholic because my mother lost her driver’s license when I was seventeen.
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Do particular national experiences and historical locations constrain or broaden one’s ethical commitments?
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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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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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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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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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