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Why is the Jewish Question Different from All Similar Questions?

Brian Klug
August 29, 2022September 13, 2022

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.

Unasking Europe’s Jewish Question

Series: Symposium on The Arab and Jewish Questions

Brian Klug
September 16, 2021September 17, 2021

Despite its name, the Jewish Question was not a Jewish question as such; it was a European question, whose subject was the Jews.

The Apocalypse is Human-Made: Playing with Fire from Al-Aqsa to Gaza

Atalia Omer
May 14, 2021August 25, 2022

The confluence of sacred times and spaces (national and religious) is explosive, and those pulling triggers and making decisions targeting religious celebrations may well be lighting the fuse.

Beyond the Performance of Interfaith Solidarity

Series: Christchurch and Beyond

Atalia Omer
June 11, 2019August 23, 2019

Profound expressions of interfaith solidarity must disrupt the deep legacy of “faith” as an instrument of empire.

Border-Crossers: Interrogating Boundaries through Bodies

Series: Ansari Conference 2018

Lailatul Fitriyah
January 16, 2019August 23, 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

Series: Ansari Conference 2018

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

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities

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

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities

Philip Gorski
August 6, 2018August 7, 2019

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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