Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Tutu’s message was simple: God created us for freedom. This is a freedom that does not belong to one group of people more than another.
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Tutu’s theology was simple: embrace the logic and the dreams of the margins.
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This is the starting point of Tutu’s challenge: Israel must recognize the God that is being worshipped in the land today is the God of conquest and not the God of liberation, and that they are not one in the same.
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What is revealed in these conversations is that challenging the structures that marginalize the most vulnerable in our society requires an intersectional analysis.
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The documentary performances powerfully politicize pain by shaping it as a relational event that took place between the performing person and the state, and is lingering in the person’s body and ways of speaking, expressing, and representing themselves to this day.
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When Politics are Sacralized seeks to comparatively reveal racially based nationalist-religious claims, along with the social, cultural, and political articulations of those claims and their significance.
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Critical secularist discourse risks reproducing particular modern categories of the religious and the political.
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The National Question was about ethnic difference and how Europe should deal with it. The Jewish Question was about the alien within—so deep within as to be internal to Europe’s idea of itself.
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Magid’s book and this discussion draw attention to how coloniality and modernity, especially in their religious elements, continue to perpetuate racism, misogyny, and xenophobia today.
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The weaponization of the discourse of antisemitism is a crude and cruel distortion: abusing the historical struggle of a vulnerable people, Jews, under attack by powerful states to blur the attack of a state, Israel, against a vulnerable people, Palestinians.
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