Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
I am Catholic because my mother lost her driver’s license when I was seventeen.
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Imperialism and structural inequalities are highly relevant to the post-Cold War framing of Islam on a global scale, but neither race or “phobia” captures the full complexity of the power dynamics at play.
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Of course, not all religious conservatives feel attracted to the populist message. Which do? Religious nationalists.
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The collection offers Catholics a chance to see themselves anew in a contemporary context of spiritual, sexual, and gender fluidity.
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The embassy ceremony in Jerusalem embodied the merging of the cynical, ideological, and eschatological as well as Islamophobia (orientalism), Zionism, and antisemitism.
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Trump and Pence may think they crafted a heartwarming Jerusalem photo op for US evangelicals, but a closer look reveals division and demographic shifts.
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First I saw a large portrait of a Native American wearing a traditional headdress, with the word “Judah” written across it. Here, brown-washing and self-orientalism perform political work, masking settler colonialism with the language and images of nativism.
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The Jewish-Muslim case is one of many that invite us to unveil what has been hidden, contest what has been naturalized, and move beyond modern/colonial liberal narratives.
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The history of the United States is a multicultural, multiethnic, multireligious one. But that history is often not told.
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Namkai-Meche’s last words—reported by a woman who pulled off her shirt to tourniquet his wound—were, “Tell everyone on this train that I love them.” We love you, too.
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