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Modern Mystic Activist Scholars Resist Fascism, Colonialism, and Definitional Pigeonholing: A Comment on Brenna Moore’s Kindred Spirits

Scott Appleby
April 26, 2022

The story Moore tells of these boundary-dwelling thinkers underscores the necessity to resist facile reliance on gender, race, and nation as stable categories by which to understand the fluidity of the modern period and modern identities.

Introduction to Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Joshua Lupo
April 13, 2022May 4, 2022

By bringing Moore’s insights to their work, these contributors open up space for thought that break through the modern boundaries of nation, discipline, and thought.

The Myth of the Secular Revolutionary: On Fanon’s Religion

Series: Reconsidering Fanon and Religion

An Yountae
April 7, 2022April 7, 2022

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.

“The Dead Don’t Go Anywhere”: Phenomenology, Religious Studies, and History

Joshua Lupo
December 8, 2021March 1, 2022

Rather than disinterested studies of “other people” who might do theology, unlike those of us in the social sciences or humanities, we might imagine those whom we study as fellow travelers with whom we share a world.

Madrasa Discourses in Hindsight

Ammar Khan Nasir
November 3, 2021

At the end of the first iteration of the program, it can be said without doubt that Madrasa Discourses has helped madrasa graduates in a number of fundamental way

The Power of Kenyan, Christian, Queer Imagination

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer

Adriaan van Klinken
October 28, 2021October 28, 2021

The arts have an ability to explore the potential of religion to contribute to a progressive, critical, and innovative vision for society, and thus to inspire social transformation.

Oppositional Intentionality in Sabr: How the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community “Preaches with Love”

Misbah Hyder
September 14, 2021September 14, 2021

The Ahmadiyya practice of sabr is at the core of an “oppositional” intentionality not captured by “resistance” or “conformity.”

Islamophobia and Epistemological Ignorance

Uzma Jamil
July 29, 2021July 29, 2021

Islamophobia is sustained, not through personal prejudice, but through a systemic refusal to see Quebec’s own Whiteness as integral to its national identity.

Contending Populisms: Pope Francis’s Response to the Politics of Division

Angus Ritchie
May 5, 2021

Our research in East London shows how citizens in some of the poorest neighborhoods of England harnessed their religious convictions to work together to discern and promote a truly common good.

Politics, Religion, and the Priority of Belief

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Giuliana Chamedes
April 26, 2021

We too need to come out from behind the curtain and frame the “so-what” of our story not just in terms of scholarly debates, but with careful attention to what our story can illuminate about the human condition.

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