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Sacralizing State Politics: Why Does it Matter?

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
November 14, 2022January 3, 2023

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.

On the Advantage of Not Fitting In: Religious-National Identities as Border-Living

Slavica Jakelić
November 2, 2022November 4, 2022

Only when the Balkans are considered as succumbing to neither Northern nor Southern theoretical or praxis-oriented frameworks, can we ensure that all ways of being and living locally are truly listened to.

When Politics are Sacralized: Religion and Nationalism in Zimbabwe

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Joram Tarusarira
October 12, 2022

The fusion between religion and nationalism is not inherent or necessary. It is an instrumentalist relationship that is used to justify and legitimate particular political policies, actions, and imaginaries.

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?

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