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Response to Wrestling with God Symposium

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Cecelia Lynch
August 19, 2021February 1, 2024

I am convinced (unsurprisingly for anyone who has read the book) that ethical wrestling is both crucial for any kind of meaningful life, and frequently tiring.

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Ethical Precarity and Staying with the Trouble

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Diane L. Moore
June 29, 2021January 27, 2024

Together, Haraway and Lynch invite us into the generative power of confronting and embracing the interdependent dynamism of our existence.

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Introduction to Symposium on Wrestling with God

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Joshua S. Lupo
June 29, 2021February 1, 2024

In thinking both critically and constructively with Christian thinkers from both the past and present, Lynch’s book shows how we might employ critical genealogical methods without succumbing to a cynical and/or fatalistic view of the world.

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A Spurned Bride? Religion and Religious Community in the Absence of a Caliph

Series: Law and Politics under the Abbasids
Omar Anchassi
May 4, 2021January 26, 2024

That the Caliph’s writ could hardly be said to extend beyond his palace walls mattered less than the fact that the institution itself was the source of tremendous symbolic power.

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Law and Politics under the Abbasids: A Symposium

Series: Symposium on Law and Politics under the Abbasids
Omar Anchassi
May 4, 2021January 27, 2024

The coherence in the Juwaynian project is by no means assumed in this book. Rather, it is demonstrated through a painstaking reading of a number of his most influential texts in the domains of legal theory and theology.

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The Enduring Appeal of Christian Europe

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Paul Hanebrink
April 21, 2021

A Twentieth-Century Crusade reveals just how closely the civic components of Catholic internationalism imitated aspects of its Communist rival—or, more precisely, of Communism as it was imagined in Rome.

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Notes on the Coup in Myanmar: Karmic Kingship, Legitimacy, and Sovereignty

Ingrid Jordt
April 6, 2021April 6, 2021

Aung San Suu Kyi has been negotiating between two divergent models for political legitimacy and sovereignty. On the one hand are western principles of human rights and democracy, on the other is karmic kingship.

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Sovereignty and its Afterlives in Muslim South Asia: A Response

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
SherAli Tareen
March 9, 2021March 12, 2021

With the loss of Muslim political sovereignty in nineteenth-century South Asia, the pioneers of the Barelvī and Deobandī orientations and their predecessors articulated and avidly fought for two rival visions of the relationship between divine sovereignty, prophetic authority, and the practice of everyday life.

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The Formation of Religious Identities in Modern Islam: Recounting a Story from Nineteenth-Century South Asia

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Ammar Khan Nasir
March 2, 2021January 26, 2024

South Asian Islam, one might argue, still has to come to terms with the new political and cultural realities of the postcolonial context and to find a way in which different religious identities can coexist without undermining the underlying fabric of society.

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Decolonizing the Study of South Asian Islam: Reflections on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity

Series: Book Symposium on Defending Muḥammad in Modernity
Waris Mazhari
February 25, 2021January 27, 2024

Why must we employ Western frameworks and categories of analysis like political theology to examine indigenous theological discourses and debates?

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