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The Limits of Critique and the Horizon of Gender Abolition in the Sikh Tradition

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
manmit singh
May 9, 2025May 9, 2025

The insistence that queerness and transness are everywhere is an insistence that the Divine is everywhere.

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Turning Away: White Nationalism and a Paraphenomenology of Darkness

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Biko Gray
November 15, 2023January 26, 2024

A paraphenomenology of darkness allows us to see the brutality of history, the violence not simply of statues, but of the fight over statues.

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At the End of Reason: On Anne Norton on the Muslim Question

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Mahmoud Youness
February 7, 2023February 9, 2023

When the western imaginary happened to be puritanical, Muslims were cast as lascivious and dissolute, when the western imaginary loosened up a bit, Muslims became sexually suppressed.

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A Conversation with Shaul Magid and Friends on Meir Kahane and Political Theology

Joshua S. Lupo
August 10, 2022

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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Oppositional Intentionality in Sabr: How the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community “Preaches with Love”

Misbah Hyder
September 14, 2021January 26, 2024

The Ahmadiyya practice of sabr is at the core of an “oppositional” intentionality not captured by “resistance” or “conformity.”

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Contending Populisms: Pope Francis’s Response to the Politics of Division

Angus Ritchie
May 5, 2021

Our research in East London shows how citizens in some of the poorest neighborhoods of England harnessed their religious convictions to work together to discern and promote a truly common good.

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Atalia Omer: A Response to Jan-Werner Müller

Series: Rome 2016
Atalia Omer
June 29, 2016January 24, 2024

A “democracy” that lacks a fundamental commitment to pluralism opens the door to totalitarianism.

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Michael Driessen: A Response to Jan-Werner Müller’s Remarks

Series: Rome 2016
Michael Driessen
June 29, 2016August 14, 2019

The identity politics at work here are dangerously illiberal and run counter to the hopes of postwar European institutions.

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