Springs's account of restorative justice might be strengthened by reframing it not only as a set of practices and a theory of justice but as a moral tradition. The post Is Restorative Justice a Tradition? Reframing the Practices and Values of Restorative Justice appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
This funhouse of academic disciplinarity order features shifting floors, trick mirrors, and other devices designed to scare and deceive those who teach, write, and establish our scholarly becoming within the region and shadow of disciplinarity. The post Notes from the Funhouse: <s>Disciplinarity</s> and the Haunting Aporia of Black Lived Religion in the United States appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
Justice as the human work of seeking justice in the world coincides with God’s work of revealing the divine justice in creation.| Contending Modernities
Taking affective investments seriously can be transformative for understanding the staying power of trends and tendencies in biblical reception. The post Bibles Belong to All of Us: Elizabeth Shakman Hurd Interviews Hannah Strømmen appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
Is it possible to decolonize secularity and extract it from its nest in racialized modern and colonial formations?| Contending Modernities
By shifting our perspective, we can uncover pathways for more equitable, locally driven peace initiatives that challenge, rather than reinforce, colonial frameworks.| Contending Modernities
How does one get from religion-based peacebuilding practices that maintain existent orders of domination to peacebuilding practices that challenge and potentially transcend orders of domination?| Contending Modernities
Without critical analysis of the gendered, racialized, and sexualized asymmetry of power . . . interreligious peacebuilding serves only a heteropatriarchal neocolonialism.| Contending Modernities