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Introduction to Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Joshua S. Lupo
May 30, 2025May 30, 2025

Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding asks the peacebuilding industry to look inward about the assumptions it makes about religion and its broader location within the ideological contours that shape modernity.

Resilience: Ecology and Morality on Climate-Vulnerable Coasts

Series: Theories of Land

Hillary Kaell and Phillip Campanile
August 8, 2023

Although more studies of religion are reproducing resilience as an empirical category, there is little debate about what it means and how it is being used.

The Pope Francis Effect in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Respect, Love, Compassion, Truth

Toussaint Kafarhire Murhula, S.J., PhD
May 16, 2023January 27, 2024

This piece is co-published with the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa blog Pope Francis’s long-awaited trip to the Democratic…

Introduction to Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Joshua S. Lupo
April 13, 2022December 9, 2022

By bringing Moore’s insights to their work, these contributors open up space for thought that break through the modern boundaries of nation, discipline, and thought.

Where the Path of Denial Leads

Susannah Crockford
February 11, 2022

Conspiracy theories flourish in systems of thought that have no place for systemic thinking, in which there are only individuals with agency, operating either for the good or the bad.

Religion, Humanitarianism, and Decolonization

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God

Emma Tomalin
July 27, 2021

There is a need to broaden approaches to the religion-development nexus and to develop a new conceptual perspective that moves beyond prioritizing the agenda of secular global development institutions and instead critically examines their rhetoric and practices.

Decolonizing the Practices of Religion in International Relations

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God

Atalia Omer
July 15, 2021February 1, 2024

Lynch shows that the postsecular discovery of religion does not constitute a departure from the symbiosis of Christianity and secular modernity, but rather represents its perpetuation through other idioms and technologies.

Unmasking Neoliberalism’s Invisible Grip: Homo Economicus and the Person in Bioethics

Series: Science and the Human Person 2019 Series

M. Therese Lysaught
July 18, 2019July 30, 2019

The CRISPR conversation makes clear that bioethics, as it has emerged since the 1980s, is a deeply neoliberal project.

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.

Is Prayer Proselytism? Examining the Ethics of Religious Practices in Transnational Faith-Based Organizations

Series: Prayer and Action

Tanya Schwarz
March 20, 2017May 23, 2017

What constitutes proselytism (or “evangelism”) is contested and debated within and among faith-based organizations. For some, merely living as a “Christian” can constitute “witness” or “lifestyle evangelism.”

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