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(Settler) Colonial Logics Beyond Europe

Hafsa Kanjwal
April 15, 2025April 15, 2025

Values that are seen as having a “positive” valence, such as state-building, democracy, development, and secularism are often weapons of colonial occupation.

Restricting Free Speech for Palestine: Nine Responses to Prof. Claire Finkelstein’s Call

Ahmed Bouzid
January 27, 2024February 12, 2024

Calls for limits to free speech advocated by people like Claire O. Finkelstein are part of a wider ideological project in support of an Israeli propaganda war (Ebrahim Moosa).

The Israel/Palestine Escalation: The Current Chapter of a Long History

Contending Modernities
October 16, 2023February 1, 2024

This conflict did not begin on Saturday, October 7. Addressing root causes is key to de-escalate violence and redress politically the aspirations of Palestinians for freedom and historical justice and the Israeli desire for safety.

“Religious Freedoms,” Apocalyptic Thinking, and Political Violence

Series: Symposium on The Politics of Persecution

Atalia Omer
August 30, 2023February 1, 2024

Palestinian Christians are under attack, but they are targeted not because of their Christianity, but rather because of their Palestinian identity.

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.

Religious Multiplicity in the Environmental Humanities Classroom: A Letter to My Students

Series: Theories of Land

Amanda Baugh
August 10, 2023January 25, 2024

A major goal of this class is to help us identify and challenge the unmarked assumptions that have led to such limited notions of who can be an environmentalist and what can count as environmentalism.

Decolonizing the Tabernacle

Series: Theories of Land

Elisha Chi
August 2, 2023January 27, 2024

What does it mean for Jesus to be materially and physically supported by land soaked in the blood of enslavement and genocide?

Living on Indigenous Lands: (Re)Considering Relations with Occupied Lands

Series: Theories of Land

Abel R. Gomez
July 27, 2023January 25, 2024

Considering our relations and responsibilities to land invites us to make other choices, ones that might guide us, perhaps, towards being in good relations with the land and the Indigenous peoples of that place.

Northern Ireland’s Troubled Relationship with Religion: Structures, Practices, and Definitions

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

Gladys Ganiel
September 21, 2022January 19, 2024

The value of comparative volumes such as this one lies in their ability to bring together different examples, identify commonalities and divergences, and impart lessons that can be learned about and applied across various cases.

Catholic Friendship, Porosity, and the “Coloniality of Being”

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Kathleen Holscher
April 20, 2022February 1, 2024

Reading Kindred Spirits helps me to ask new questions about porosity in friendships between Catholics and Native peoples, and specifically about how porosity positions Catholic friendships in relation to the sovereignty of the U.S. nation-state.

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