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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 1, 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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Reimagining Jewish Ethics and Politics in Palestine/Israel and the Jewish Diaspora

Series: Antisemitism and the Struggle for Justice and Peace in Palestine/Israel
Joshua S. Lupo
May 22, 2024September 30, 2024

Rather than sovereignty and domination, Manekin and Rosen argued that Jewish teachings require followers to side with the marginalized and oppressed.

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In-Between Affect: Governing (with) Saints

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Omar Kasmani
December 6, 2023February 1, 2024

The affective in-between is where we feel and thereby know that the Pakistani state is present in scenes of religious intimacy.

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Black Women and the Political Performance for Environmental, Territorial, and Human Rights on the Pacific Coast of Colombia

Series: Theories of Land
Kaché H. Claytor
July 25, 2023February 1, 2024

Black women have been at the forefront of authoring pathways to futurity through their care work, spiritual customs, performance cultures, aesthetic practices, philosophies, and activist movements.

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