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Of Hostility and Irrelevance

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Rajbir Singh Judge
May 27, 2025May 27, 2025

Why do we always need more voices, traces, and archives? What does such inclusion, connection, and assimilation promise?

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Contention, Dwelling, and the Loss of Loss

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Randeep Singh Hothi
May 15, 2025

The caution against fixation radicalizes the possibility of learning, because neither method nor object can be guaranteed by the recuperation of what is lost.

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Loss, Sovereignty and the Sikh Tradition: India and the World

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Nirvikar Singh
May 13, 2025May 16, 2025

The material problems of Indian Punjab will not be solved by a Khalsa Raj. Political autonomy will do nothing by itself to shift Punjab’s economy out of a destructive and unsustainable trap of growing wheat and rice for India’s food security.

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The Mute Eloquence of Impossible Histories

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Purnima Dhavan
May 1, 2025

There is room to embrace the ethics of the vision in this book while still historicizing profusely and even counter-historicizing.

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Introduction to Prophetic Maharaja

Series: Symposium on Prophetic Maharaja
Joshua S. Lupo
May 1, 2025May 27, 2025

Judge suggests that the past never contains the certainties we like to project onto it, and thus that the present is unlikely to contain them either.

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(Settler) Colonial Logics Beyond Europe

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
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.

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Sovereignty and Silence in Modern India

Series: Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir
Matthew Shutzer
April 9, 2025

Kanjwal’s book seeks to imagine a social world outside the varied bonds and discourses of states.

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Sacrality, Land, and Conceptual Fluidity: A Synthetic Response to Dana Lloyd and Barbara Sostaita

Series: CM Conversations
Joshua S. Lupo
December 13, 2024December 18, 2024

Lloyd and Sostaita show us how we might move beyond the sacred/profane binary that both its defenders and critics are parasitic upon.

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Sovereignty, Land, and Religious Freedom: Barbara Sostaita Interviews Dana Lloyd

Series: CM Conversations
Dana Lloyd and Barbara Sostaita
December 11, 2024December 16, 2024

Knowing that they are doomed to lose in a settler court, the Yurok, Karuk, and Tolowa people are doing everything they can to protect the High Country as their kin.

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After Gaza, Standing Again at Sinai

Series: Theology after Gaza
Atalia Omer
October 8, 2024October 8, 2024

Returning to Sinai after Gaza amounts to a restorative justice praxis.

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