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God’s Plan, Or Institutional Violence? Congolese Refugees in Kampala between Hope And Disillusionment

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Alessandro Gusman
November 28, 2023January 27, 2024

Faith in God and in his plans provides room for narratives of hope and a different affective realm for refugees living in insecurity and fear. But even hope fades over the years.

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Doubling Down on Anti-anti-Intellectualism

Series: Symposium on Pastoral Power Clerical State
Ebenezer Obadare
October 31, 2023January 24, 2024

The transition from an authority based broadly on reason to one based on revelation is one of the most consequential developments in postcolonial Nigerian history.

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Pentecostalism, Anti-Clericalism, and Postsecularism in Postcolonial Nigeria

Series: Symposium on Pastoral Power Clerical State
Adeshina Afolayan
September 27, 2023February 1, 2024

What does it imply to rethink the Nigerian society within the rubric of a postsecularity that takes God and the perfectibility of Pentecostalism seriously?

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Pentecostal Power and Politics in the Clerical State

Series: Symposium on Pastoral Power Clerical State
Abimbola A. Adelakun
September 21, 2023September 27, 2023

Obadare’s insightful analysis outlines how new rulerships emerge in Africa’s yet unstable democracies while highlighting the nature of politics, power, legitimacy, and the evolution of democracy.

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Reason’s Idols: A Response to Khan Asfandyar Shairani and Joshua S. Lupo

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
Khaled Furani
February 23, 2023September 15, 2024

If revelation is arguably the humbler of reason, when might we reasonably expect reason to be capable of humbling revelation? When might a rock humble the rain?

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Revolutionary Dreams, Repressive Realities

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

Women stand at the forefront, driving this nation-wide revolt because there exists the deepest contradiction between their massive participation in social affairs and the patriarchal laws and denigrating regulations that seek to govern their bodies and appearances.

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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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