Persepolis and the Country that is Not | Contending Modernities

The urgent task is not to read Iran better, but to stop believing that reading a memoir amounts to intellectual mastery.

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Theopolitical Entanglements: Tisa Wenger Interviews Candace Lukasik on Martyrs and Migrants | Contending Modernities

US racial formations produce a situation in which Copts are pulled simultaneously into Christian kinship and held at racial distance.

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Gaza and Muslim Political Theology: Three Meditations on Justice, Extermination, and the Humanitarian Order

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Imperial Hauntings: Candace Lukasik Interviews Tisa Wenger on Spirits of Empire | Contending Modernities

Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits to their designated domain. But they can never entirely be contained.

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Doing Theology After Gaza: Daniel Bannoura Interviews Mitri Raheb and Graham McGeoch | Contending Modernities

In decentering power from Western states and European modern frameworks, Theology after Gaza creates new alliances as people with similar struggles cohere around Gaza and Palestine.

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Narrating the History of the American Anti-Zionist Jewish Left (Part 2) | Contending Modernities

The old oppositions between "secular" and "religious" Jewish life are breaking apart, at least on the left, and perhaps, were never really what we imagined them to be to begin with.

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Ebrahim Moosa, "Beauty, Truth, and Justice in Muslim Liberation Theology"

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Narrating the History of the American Anti-Zionist Jewish Left (Part 1) | Contending Modernities

What does the history of American Jewish anti-Zionism look like if one puts left-wing social movements at the center of that story?

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The Church That Lost Its Cry: Public Lament and Ecclesial Capture in Ethiopia | Contending Modernities

Teddy Afro’s song, for all its theological limitations, expresses what Ethiopia’s churches have too often lost: the capacity to grieve publicly, truthfully, and across ethnic lines.

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A Tale of Two Cities: The Pope, the President, and Palantir | Contending Modernities

The same hubris that animates Trumpism’s uncritical embrace of AI is evident in the administration’s apparent conviction that it has the right to intervene militarily in any country that fails to do i...

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The Missing Link: Religious and Moral Transformation After Civil Conflict | Contending Modernities

The ethnocultural empathic turn names a pattern of transformation in which religious actors, institutions, and narratives shift away from the ethnoreligious production of boundaries and toward practic...

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The Iran War and the Afterlife of Liberal Modernity: A Critical Tribute to Jürgen Habermas | Contending Modernities

Habermas’s liberal idealism may now linger as a kind of story most visible at the edge of disappearance, where loss and transmission drift together under the shadow of perpetual war.

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Engaging the Madrasa

Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe.The rapid developments ...

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Hope as a Political Practice | Contending Modernities

By sustaining affirmation while facing uncertainty, hope sustains social movements that resist authoritarianism with creativity and courage.

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The Limits of Hope: Rethinking Ethics and Politics from the Ground Up | Contending Modernities

where people’s hopelessness is often also expressed in their hunger and marginalization, hope against despair means survival within, rather than transcendence of, the institutions and power structures...

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Cultivating Disruption: On Hope in a Secular Age | Contending Modernities

I wonder if it is precisely the cultivated desire to persist (in a certain manner) that forecloses the possibility of rupture, abolition, and dissolution.

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Elements in Islam and the Sciences: Muslim Theological Encounters with Science

Muslim Theological Encounters with Science, Muslim Theological Encounters with Science dismantles the “Islamic decline” narrative by showing how science and theology have long coexisted in Muslim civi...

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First We Take Manhattan | Contending Modernities

A political victory can show that Islamophobia is not inevitable or invincible. It can spark the recognition that Islamophobia connects the local and the global, the metropolitan and the periphery, th...

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Witnessing Without Redemption: The Remnant and the Refusal of Closure | Contending Modernities

Witnessing, then, is not about closure but interruption. It is an ethical practice oriented toward what remains unresolved in the present.

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Kinds and Contents of Hope | Contending Modernities

Letting differences in content generate a more differentiated account of kinds of hope might bring us closer to Derrida’s desired future of radical democracy and justice.

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“Remember What Amalek Did to You”: The Weaponization of Biblical Narratives on a Black Church Trip to Israel | Contending Modernities

The weaponization of religious narratives is a powerful force in shaping perceptions and stimulating political solidarities. But so is a brief humanizing encounter as a bridge to empathy.

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Kharg, the Orphan Pearl: War, Extraction, and Spectral Histories | Contending Modernities

Kharg still holds histories waiting to be uncovered—spectral traces that have shaped the island through mourning and devotion, where land and sea were not merely resources but sites of sacred belongin...

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Burning Human Rights Books, Part II: Genocide, Occupation, and Decolonization | Contending Modernities

What do human rights mean if a state can drop the equivalent of multiple atomic bombs and still claim that the resulting mass civilian deaths were unintentional?

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Burning Human Rights Books, Part I: Modern International Law, War, and Colonialism | Contending Modernities

Law does not exist in legal sources, but in the interpretation and application of legal sources.

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No Catholic Brand of Christian Zionism, or Tolerance for Antisemitism | Contending Modernities

Catholics cannot repair their relationship with Jews at the expense of Palestinians, who have experienced Zionism as subjugation, dispossession, and discrimination.

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Identities, Boundaries, and Nationalisms: A Synthetic Response to Greenberg and Bloch | Contending Modernities

Is there space in the genealogies of religious nationalism for a roadmap away from authoritarian exclusion?

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The Discipline and Gift: A Theological Critique of David Newheiser's Hope in a Secular Age | Contending Modernities

It is in allowing ourselves to contemplate the mystery of divine being, who gives itself over to us in contemplative prayer, that we are truly alive to our contingency and our belovedness.

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