Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Ellis cast a desperately needed light on a principled way forward in a post-Holocaust age with Israel as its center.
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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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The Black radical tradition is unified not by empirical facts about people or histories but by a shared commitment to struggle against the paradigm of domination (slavery and its afterlives).
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Historians’ work has to engage with the present because their work, in fact, never reaches the past. It is written for living and breathing people today and in the future.
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A close analysis of ʿerfān and hāl, I believe, is very helpful in unsettling some of the dominant binaries through which religion is often understood in Iran.
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Haeri’s monograph provides a double reframing—of meaning in terms of recitation and of prayer in terms of the presence of multiple voices.
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Shibli’s attempt to modernize madrasa education provided a durable impetus for social and educational reform within religious society, the impact of which is felt even today.
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The coherence in the Juwaynian project is by no means assumed in this book. Rather, it is demonstrated through a painstaking reading of a number of his most influential texts in the domains of legal theory and theology.
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The task of answering the questions facing Islamic theology today cannot be met by those who have no attachment to their Islamic roots. It also cannot be accomplished by an individual alone.
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