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Bibles Belong to All of Us: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Interviews Hannah Strømmen

Series: CM Conversations
Hannah M. Strømmen and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
August 4, 2025August 4, 2025

Taking affective investments seriously can be transformative for understanding the staying power of trends and tendencies in biblical reception.

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Introduction to Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding

Series: Symposium on Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding
Joshua S. Lupo
May 30, 2025July 8, 2025

Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding asks the peacebuilding industry to look inward about the assumptions it makes about religion and its broader location within the ideological contours that shape modernity.

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Contention, Dwelling, and the Loss of Loss

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Randeep Singh Hothi
May 15, 2025

The caution against fixation radicalizes the possibility of learning, because neither method nor object can be guaranteed by the recuperation of what is lost.

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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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Theology and the Environmental Humanities

Series: Theories of Land
Evan Berry
August 17, 2023January 25, 2024

The concepts that ground contemporary scholarly conversations about the cultural roots of the climate crisis are saturated with theological questions.

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More Than a Land of Open Graves: How the Sonoran Desert Refuses Capture

Series: Theories of Land
Barbara Sostaita
July 20, 2023

The desert’s sacred energies are an unruly affront to enforcement agents who seek possession or mastery.

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On the Advantage of Not Fitting In: Religious-National Identities as Border-Living

Slavica Jakelić
November 2, 2022February 1, 2024

Only when the Balkans are considered as succumbing to neither Northern nor Southern theoretical or praxis-oriented frameworks, can we ensure that all ways of being and living locally are truly listened to.

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Is Decolonial Theory Secular?: Lessons from Frantz Fanon

Series: Reconsidering Fanon and Religion
Nelson Maldonado-Torres
January 27, 2022February 1, 2024

Fanon never finds “religion” purely out there: he finds “religion” always in context of colonization and global coloniality; always taking unique forms in varied contexts of catastrophe.

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Modern Religion, Modern Sign, Modern Ritual

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Niloofar Haeri
January 18, 2022January 25, 2024

When we recite, in time we come to embody the language of the recitation. We hear our own voice and at times that of others.

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A Ritual of One’s Own

Series: Symposium on Say What Your Longing Heart Desires
Ahoo Najafian
December 7, 2021January 20, 2022

Haeri illustrates that in Iran, religion is constituted by poetry and that in the public imagination, poetry plays an authoritative role in defining, destabilizing, and pushing the boundaries of religion.

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