Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Religion is the ghost that haunts global politics in both our theoretical musings and in our policy and practice.
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The modern era has witnessed not only religiously inspired violence but also large-scale violence carried out in the name of secularist ideologies and projects.
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The urgent task is not to read Iran better, but to stop believing that reading a memoir amounts to intellectual mastery.
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By sustaining affirmation while facing uncertainty, hope sustains social movements that resist authoritarianism with creativity and courage.
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Katongole listens not only to the stories people tell, but listens for the patterns enfolded within them, and the larger tapestry those patterns make up.
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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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Why do we need idolatry to recognize our false claims to possess the absolute, when fallibilism will do? Is it just to offer religious people a piece of the secular pie?
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Critical secularist discourse risks reproducing particular modern categories of the religious and the political.
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Fanon’s critique of religion winds up being a powerful critique of the secular. Contrarily, Fanon seeks refuge in the secular in order to resignify the human but he ends up repurposing religion along the way.
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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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