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Engaging our Imagination with Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Jean-Pierre Reed
June 12, 2025

How does one get from religion-based peacebuilding practices that maintain existent orders of domination to peacebuilding practices that challenge and potentially transcend orders of domination?

A Transnational Feminist Reflection on “Doing Religion” and “Knowing Religion”

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Keunjoo Christine Pae
June 6, 2025June 10, 2025

Without critical analysis of the gendered, racialized, and sexualized asymmetry of power . . . interreligious peacebuilding serves only a heteropatriarchal neocolonialism.

Introduction to Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Joshua S. Lupo
May 30, 2025June 6, 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.

Abundant Religious Pluralism

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Robert Orsi
May 30, 2025May 30, 2025

Santa Rosalia’s welcoming of the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu refugees . . . tells us that the gods, who have their own intentions in their relationships with humans, may be practitioners of decolonial love too.

Memories of Gaza and Memories of Peace

Series: Theology after Gaza

Keunjoo Christine Pae
September 10, 2024September 30, 2024

A palimpsestic approach traces peace as it is embodied and practiced by ordinary people who have left cracks in the imperial history of war.

Rabbis for Ceasefire at the United Nations

Rebecca T. Aplert
February 8, 2024February 8, 2024

Our conversation moved us beyond words, for this Secretary General follows in the path set by former Secretary General Hammarskjöld and the other men who preceded him as rodfei shalom, seekers of peace.

Reframing the Past and Imagining the Future of Post-Brexit Northern Ireland

Series: Turbulent Religions Alternative Futures

Thomas Tweed
February 6, 2024February 6, 2024

Maybe new frames, metaphors, and terms can help Islanders confront the legacy of the past on the island of Ireland.

Transnational Solidarity, Israel/Palestine, and the Intellectual Legacies of Desmond Tutu

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu

Michael Battle
June 21, 2023February 1, 2024

Tutu’s legacy is precisely in the hope that human beings will celebrate the image of God whose unity is known through diverse persons.

Desmond Tutu: A Much-Loved, Deeply Disturbed, and Offensive Prophet

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu

Farid Esack
June 8, 2023February 1, 2024

Tutu’s theology was simple: embrace the logic and the dreams of the margins.

A Jewish Perspective on Desmond Tutu’s Prophetic Dream for Peace and Justice in Israel/Palestine

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu

Rebecca T. Aplert
May 31, 2023January 27, 2024

This is the starting point of Tutu’s challenge: Israel must recognize the God that is being worshipped in the land today is the God of conquest and not the God of liberation, and that they are not one in the same.

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