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Kinds and Contents of Hope

Series: Symposium on Hope in a Secular Age
Andrew Prevot
March 31, 2026

Letting differences in content generate a more differentiated account of kinds of hope might bring us closer to Derrida’s desired future of radical democracy and justice.

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Identities, Boundaries, and Nationalisms: A Synthetic Response to Greenberg and Bloch

Series: CM Conversations
Will O'Brien
March 10, 2026

Is there space in the genealogies of religious nationalism for a roadmap away from authoritarian exclusion?

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Introduction to Symposium on Hope in a Secular Age

Series: Symposium on Hope in a Secular Age
Devin Singh and Rick Elgendy
January 21, 2026March 6, 2026

Hope thrives not in certainty but in the creative tension of becoming—a disciplined assertion that even amidst dislocation, the potential for renewal persists.

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Disciplines of Hope in a Secular Age

Series: Symposium on Hope in a Secular Age
Ted Vial
January 21, 2026

For Newheiser, Dionysus and Derrida stay in the tension, which gives us the hope that is needed in our political as well as existential situations

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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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