Nation State Archives | Contending Modernities

Antisemitism and Other Hates

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel

Dania Straughan
May 23, 2024September 30, 2024

The contemporary weaponization of antisemitism is the realization of an ethno-religious state project that purports the only way to imagine Jewish community is as an exclusionary political project predicated on the domination of Palestinians.

Reimagining Jewish Ethics and Politics in Palestine/Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel

Joshua S. Lupo
May 22, 2024September 30, 2024

Rather than sovereignty and domination, Manekin and Rosen argued that Jewish teachings require followers to side with the marginalized and oppressed.

Introducing Enlivening the Nation

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age

Joshua S. Lupo
November 10, 2023January 27, 2024

This series addresses complex ways in which people become attached to particular understandings of the nation and the role of religion in either supporting or hindering that attachment.

Why is the Jewish Question Different from All Similar Questions?

Brian Klug
August 29, 2022March 19, 2024

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.

Politics, Religion, and the Priority of Belief

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Giuliana Chamedes
April 26, 2021

We too need to come out from behind the curtain and frame the “so-what” of our story not just in terms of scholarly debates, but with careful attention to what our story can illuminate about the human condition.

The Vatican’s Foreign Policy: Avoiding Confrontation, Accommodating Interests

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, S.J., PhD
April 23, 2021January 27, 2024

Far from living the radical idealism of Jesus, the Church as a realist and discerning body politic accepts that both good and evil will always coexist in this imperfect world.

Twentieth-Century Crusades and Crusaders Reimagined

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Cara Burnidge
April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

The “religious” figure and body in this book is not a “faith-based” “non-state actor” seeking to share gospel stories or convert others, but rather a state actor focused on further developing its legal power and political authority.