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Introduction to Symposium on When Politics are Sacralized

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Joshua S. Lupo
September 21, 2022October 12, 2022

What the contributors to this symposium show is that it is possible to engage in comparative work that is attentive to history, social and political complexity, and diversity without losing track of the more abstract concepts that are necessary to compare cross-culturally.

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

Series: Symposium on 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

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Joshua S. Lupo
April 13, 2022December 9, 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, 2022February 1, 2024

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 S. Lupo
December 8, 2021February 1, 2024

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, 2021January 27, 2024

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.

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