Solidarity Archives | Contending Modernities

Black Dignity as a Universal Horizon

Nadia Fadil
August 31, 2023

The political vocabularies and tactics generated through the African American struggle has had a universal reach that has inspired and shaped struggles all over the world.

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

Series: Theories of Land

Abel R. Gomez
July 27, 2023July 27, 2023

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.

The Search for Justice, Liberation, and Humanity in the Life and Work of Desmond Tutu

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu

Hilary Rantisi
June 26, 2023

Tutu’s message was simple: God created us for freedom. This is a freedom that does not belong to one group of people more than another.

Desmond Tutu: A Much-Loved, Deeply Disturbed, and Offensive Prophet

Series: Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu

Farid Esack
June 8, 2023June 22, 2023

Tutu’s theology was simple: embrace the logic and the dreams of the margins.

Religion and Broken Solidarities: A Conversation on Political Movements, the Literary Imagination, and Hope

Joshua S. Lupo
May 9, 2023May 9, 2023

What is revealed in these conversations is that challenging the structures that marginalize the most vulnerable in our society requires an intersectional analysis.

At the End of Reason: On Anne Norton on the Muslim Question

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Mahmoud Youness
February 7, 2023February 9, 2023

When the western imaginary happened to be puritanical, Muslims were cast as lascivious and dissolute, when the western imaginary loosened up a bit, Muslims became sexually suppressed.

Introducing The Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Series: Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium

Joshua S. Lupo
January 31, 2023February 7, 2023

Inspired by the work of Ebrahim Moosa, this symposium addresses challenging questions about how to confront Islamophobia in west and how to reimagine the study of religion today.

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

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Kathleen Holscher
April 20, 2022

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.

What Does It Mean to Be Religious?

Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits

Niloofar Haeri
April 13, 2022

Among the various correctives that Moore’s book provides is to the widely held idea that doctrine plays a primary role in attracting individuals to religion.