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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.

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.

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.

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?

The Holy in Hindsight: A Reply to the Readers

Series: Symposium on The Political Lives of Saints

Angie Heo
November 1, 2019November 1, 2019

Like my fellow scholars of religion here, I am dissatisfied with reading religion as the mere fodder for manipulation and control. The major challenge remains a deeper understanding of what religion and political theology can enact beyond the authoritarian state’s grip.

Articles tagged as "Political Theology"

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

Sovereignty and its Afterlives in Muslim South Asia: A Response

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

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

The Holy in Hindsight: A Reply to the Readers