Muslim Mimesis: Almost The Same but Not Quite?
We cannot allow [our] differences to transmutate into subjugation, violence, terror—lest we become monsters ourselves.
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Religious Multiplicity in the Environmental Humanities Classroom: A Letter to My Students
Series: Theories of Land
A major goal of this class is to help us identify and challenge the unmarked assumptions that have led to such limited notions of who can be an environmentalist and what can count as environmentalism.
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Mosques and Muslims in the “Evergreen City of India”: Exploring India’s Pluralism
Pluralism not only denotes a tolerance towards others, but also offers an opportunity to intermingle and exchange and thus mitigate difference.
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Contending Populisms: Pope Francis’s Response to the Politics of Division
Our research in East London shows how citizens in some of the poorest neighborhoods of England harnessed their religious convictions to work together to discern and promote a truly common good.
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Catholicism in Need of Critical Caretaking
So intent was the Vatican on “protecting the Church” that even the horrors of the Holocaust, not lost on Pope Pius XII, failed to scandalize Catholic diplomats and other officials into reconsidering the rights of religious minorities and championing religious freedom.
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Beyond Aztlán: Latina/o/x Students Let Go of Their Mythic Homeland
Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress.
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The Evolution of Eyes
On the last day of the program, Haya convinced Meilin to try on one of her outfits and then wear it to class.
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Particular and Capacious? A Reflection on Identity and Solidarity
Do particular national experiences and historical locations constrain or broaden one’s ethical commitments?
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Pluralism, Secularism, and Anti/Philo-Semitism
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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Modernities and Religious Identity and Difference
Series: Religion Book Symposium
Modernity is not simply a political and economic project, but more deeply a cultural one, in some ways a sacred or quasi-religious project.
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