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Mosques and Muslims in the “Evergreen City of India”: Exploring India’s Pluralism

Mohammad Ali
March 1, 2023

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

Angus Ritchie
May 5, 2021

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

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Scott Appleby
April 13, 2021April 15, 2021

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

Jacqueline Hidalgo
April 11, 2019April 15, 2019

Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress.

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The Evolution of Eyes

Series: Madrasa Discourses Summer Intensive 2018
Elsa Barron
September 19, 2018February 20, 2019

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

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities
Slavica Jakelić
September 7, 2018November 18, 2020

Do particular national experiences and historical locations constrain or broaden one’s ethical commitments?

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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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Photo Credit: Wally Gobetz, on Flickr.com. NYC - FiDi: Trinity Church.

Modernities and Religious Identity and Difference

Series: Religion Book Symposium
Christian Smith
April 20, 2018April 21, 2018

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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Stand Up To Islamophobia One of a series of rallys around the UK in response to hate crimes against Muslims.

“Love” and “Punishment” for Muslim Others

Timothy Gutmann
April 17, 2018September 18, 2018

What recognitions and forms of mutuality are necessary for common life amid plurality?

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Ethical Discernment and Coexistence

Series: Beyond Coexistence
Siti Syamsiyatun
January 22, 2018January 23, 2018

Our forefathers and mothers who struggled for independence would weep, knowing we now fight to advance limited group interests.

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