The Search for Justice, Liberation, and Humanity in the Life and Work of Desmond Tutu
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.
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Desmond Tutu: A Much-Loved, Deeply Disturbed, and Offensive Prophet
Tutu’s theology was simple: embrace the logic and the dreams of the margins.
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Religion and Broken Solidarities: A Conversation on Political Movements, the Literary Imagination, and Hope
What is revealed in these conversations is that challenging the structures that marginalize the most vulnerable in our society requires an intersectional analysis.
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At the End of Reason: On Anne Norton on the Muslim Question
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.
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Introducing The Mirza Family Chair Inaugural Symposium
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.
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Catholic Friendship, Porosity, and the “Coloniality of Being”
Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
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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What Does It Mean to Be Religious?
Series: Symposium on Kindred Spirits
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.
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What Friends Are For
Series: Symposium on The Moral Triangle
Ultimately, politicians are not able to initiate peace from the top down. Peace can only come from the bottom up.
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Re-Entangling Palestine
While the notion of solidarity assumes a separation in the struggles, and a tactical alliance and support, the vocabulary of entanglement forces us to reckon with the interdependency of these different struggles.
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On the Rhetoric of Jewish Solidarity: A Hebrew-Israelite’s Perspective
Series: Policing Analogies
In the desire to demonstrate that Jews are on the right side of history, the (white and non-white) Jewish community’s problems with racism are often ignored.
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