Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Values that are seen as having a “positive” valence, such as state-building, democracy, development, and secularism are often weapons of colonial occupation.
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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).
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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.
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Palestinian Christians are under attack, but they are targeted not because of their Christianity, but rather because of their Palestinian identity.
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The concepts that ground contemporary scholarly conversations about the cultural roots of the climate crisis are saturated with theological questions.
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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.
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What does it mean for Jesus to be materially and physically supported by land soaked in the blood of enslavement and genocide?
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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.
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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.
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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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