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On Political Boundaries and Christian Love

MT Dávila
March 18, 2025

The measure of Christian love is not a set of boundaries around specific kinds of people, but, rather, the gift of God’s crossing all boundaries through the Incarnation.

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Reimagining the Sacred: Dana Lloyd Interviews Barbara Sostaita

Series: CM Conversations
Barbara Sostaita and Dana Lloyd
December 9, 2024December 16, 2024

I consider sanctuary and the sacred as life-transforming disruptions of immigration enforcement operations, as these vibrant and ephemeral moments that interrupt the everyday.

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Introduction to Symposium on The Politics of Persecution

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Joshua S. Lupo
August 24, 2023December 14, 2023

Raheb’s book puts forward a deep historical engagement that locates the plight of Middle Eastern Christians in a longer arc of colonial history and the history of empires.

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Middle Eastern Christians and Persecution Politics in Transnational Perspective

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution
Candace Lukasik
August 24, 2023January 27, 2024

Minoritization shows its plasticity as it is translated across borders and through empire, sustained by the very contradictions that seemingly undo it.

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The Modernity of Witchcraft Asylum Claims

Series: Decolonizing Narratives
Benjamin Lawrance
May 31, 2018June 1, 2018

It’s hard to understand why vodou remains so alien a concept to refugee adjudicators, particularly as the religious observance is so well documented by ethnographers and anthropologists.

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