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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

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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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Twentieth-Century Crusades and Crusaders Reimagined

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Cara Burnidge
April 19, 2021April 19, 2021

The “religious” figure and body in this book is not a “faith-based” “non-state actor” seeking to share gospel stories or convert others, but rather a state actor focused on further developing its legal power and political authority.

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Introduction to Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade

Series: Symposium on A Twentieth-Century Crusade
Joshua Lupo
April 15, 2021April 26, 2021

This book presents the heretofore understudied history of Catholic international diplomacy in the early- to mid-twentieth century.

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Religion, Uyghurs, and the Global War on Terror

Series: Perspectives on the Uyghur Crisis in China
Kristian Petersen
February 11, 2021

While the Uyghur crisis doesn’t revolve solely around Islamic identity and practice, the category “religion” provides an organizing framework that the People’s Republic of China utilizes to justify its continued oppression of the community.

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Secularism’s Prisoners

Series: Secularism in France
Ebrahim Moosa
December 10, 2020December 11, 2020

The theater of Macron’s crusade is his own backyard, the banlieues—from where the uncivilized darkness will lift when floodlit by the vaunted French version of secularism, laïcité.

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