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Imperial Hauntings: Candace Lukasik Interviews Tisa Wenger on Spirits of Empire

Series: CM Conversations
Tisa Wenger and Candace Lukasik
July 22, 2026July 22, 2026

Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits to their designated domain. But they can never entirely be contained.

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Weaponizing Indigeneity: Zionist Media Discourse on Possessing Palestine

Series: Weaponizing Religion: Critical Perspectives on Palestine/Israel
Sabina Ali
January 29, 2026January 29, 2026

Indigenous peoples articulate Land as part of an interconnected web of relations and responsibilities, a mode of relating that cannot be reconciled with the structural violence of modern nation-states.

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Enacting Indigenous Ontologies

Series: Theories of Land
Jeremy Sorgen
August 3, 2023January 27, 2024

Settler moves to innocence exonerate settler cultures from responsibility without having to forfeit privilege and power.

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Black Women and the Political Performance for Environmental, Territorial, and Human Rights on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Series: Theories of Land
Kaché H. Claytor
July 25, 2023February 1, 2024

Black women have been at the forefront of authoring pathways to futurity through their care work, spiritual customs, performance cultures, aesthetic practices, philosophies, and activist movements.

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Introduction to Theories of Land

Series: Theories of Land
Dana Lloyd
July 20, 2023August 17, 2023

We need to listen to the land itself in order to theorize better, in order to live better.

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Taking a Critical Indigenous and Ethnic Studies Approach to Decolonizing Religious Studies

Series: Decoloniality and Liberation Theology
Natalie Avalos
October 14, 2020September 4, 2026

When we dehumanize Indigenous peoples at the level of epistemology, the endogenous study of Indigenous knowledge is rendered illegible. Even impossible.

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