Reexamining Religion and Modernities Archives

Catholic Friendship, Porosity, and the “Coloniality of Being”

Kathleen Holscher
April 20, 2022February 1, 2024

Reading Kindred Spirits helps me to ask new questions about porosity in friendships between Catholics and Native peoples, and specifically about how porosity positions Catholic friendships in relation to the sovereignty of the U.S. nation-state.

What Does It Mean to Be Religious?

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Niloofar Haeri
April 13, 2022

Among the various correctives that Moore’s book provides is to the widely held idea that doctrine plays a primary role in attracting individuals to religion.

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?

Pluralism, Secularism, and Anti/Philo-Semitism

Series: Reexamining Religion and Modernities

Geneviève Zubrzycki
August 24, 2018January 24, 2024

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?