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Taking a Critical Indigenous and Ethnic Studies Approach to Decolonizing Religious Studies

Series: Decoloniality and Liberation Theology
Natalie Avalos
October 14, 2020October 14, 2020

When we dehumanize Indigenous peoples at the level of epistemology, the endogenous study of Indigenous knowledge is rendered illegible. Even impossible.

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The Provincializing Work, or What Remains After and Outside Philosophy of Religion

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion
Danube Johnson
September 8, 2020October 5, 2020

Occlusions of colonial knowledge do not merely render accounts of modern subjectivity incomplete; they render them fantasies.

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Introduction to Decoloniality and the Study of Religion

Series: Decoloniality and the Study of Religion
Garrett FitzGerald
February 24, 2020October 5, 2020

Decolonial thought unmasks the histories of violence that undergird Europe’s self-appointed status as the sole producer and purveyor of knowledge.

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Without Literacy, There is No Wisdom: Reflections on Madrasa Discourses’ Summer Intensive in India

Mohammad Ali
September 30, 2019October 2, 2019

Muslim scholars should show courage to shoulder the accountability of the history they inherit and be ready to reinterpret parts of their tradition which are inconsistent with their modern experiences.

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Harmonizing the Theology of the Past with the Realities of the Present

Series: Madrasa Discourses Summer Intensive 2018
Manzar Imam
February 21, 2019February 21, 2019

The task of answering the questions facing Islamic theology today cannot be met by those who have no attachment to their Islamic roots. It also cannot be accomplished by an individual alone.

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Border-Crossers: Interrogating Boundaries through Bodies

Series: Ansari Conference 2018
Lailatul Fitriyah
January 16, 2019August 23, 2019

What we can infer from this panel is that the political, racial, and religious markers which compose borders are also etched and negotiated on the bodies of the marginalized others as ‘border-crossers.’

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Sustainable Resources: Reimagining Our Relationship with the Earth

Series: Ansari Conference 2018
Marie-Claire Klassen
January 11, 2019January 18, 2019

In the age of the anthropocene—climate change brought about by human actions—religious traditions can offer vital resources for reimagining a sustainable relationship between humans, other animals, and the earth.

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US border wall meets the Pacific in Tijuana.

Welcoming Complexity Together

Series: Ansari Conference 2018
Dania Straughan
January 11, 2019January 21, 2019

Religion and flourishing at the 2018 inaugural conference for the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement with Religion.

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The Shabbat Massacre Is Not Merely About Religion

Atalia Omer
October 30, 2018August 7, 2019

The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.

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On the Theologico-Theatrical: Explaining the Convergence of Pentecostalism and Popular Culture in Nigeria

Ebenezer Obadare
July 10, 2018July 10, 2018

Assurances of salvation may no longer be enough for Nigerian Pentecostalism, where the propulsive energy of Fuji music and commercial imperatives contribute to entangling religion and entertainment.

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