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Border-Crossers: Interrogating Boundaries through Bodies

Lailatul Fitriyah
January 16, 2019January 25, 2019

What we can infer from this panel is that the political, racial, and religious markers which compose borders are also etched and negotiated on the bodies of the marginalized others as ‘border-crossers.’

US border wall meets the Pacific in Tijuana.

Welcoming Complexity Together

Dania Straughan
January 11, 2019January 21, 2019

Religion and flourishing at the 2018 inaugural conference for the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion.

Pluralism, Secularism, and Anti/Philo-Semitism

Geneviève Zubrzycki
August 24, 2018October 4, 2018

How can Poland, one of the most ethnically, denominationally, and religiously homogenous nation-states in the world, counter the empirical absence of ethnic, racial, and religious plurality to meet the modern political goals of pluralism and multi-culturalism?

Religious Nationalism and Right Wing Populism: Trumpism and Beyond

Philip Gorski
August 6, 2018

Of course, not all religious conservatives feel attracted to the populist message. Which do? Religious nationalists.

2018 World Cup and Multicultural Belgium

Nadia Fadil
July 12, 2018October 4, 2018

It is precisely this absence of a unified national project that allows for a triumphant recuperation of national symbols by ethnic minorities.

Theo-Politics in Flux: The ‘Alt-Right’ on God, Christendom, and the Nation

Mara Willard
February 28, 2017May 26, 2017

Newly empowered, US white nationalists straddle pre- or a-modern theology and Christianity, re-constructed and re-lived on internet forums and tv-shows of late-modernity. Willard tracks the contentions in the US white nationalist right through the lens of Arendt’s “Origins of Totalitarianism”.

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