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
What does a focus on biblical assemblages together with the far-right allow us to see anew? The post Bibles Belong to All of Us: Masculinity, Civilization, and the Bibles of the Far Right appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
Decolonial scholarship pushes the critique of the secular/modern beyond the analysis of idolatry by engaging with the question of religion and colonialism through a robust interrogation of racialization. The post The Urgency of Idolatry Critique: A Synthetic Response to Yadgar and Cavanaugh appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
I think it is a given that the multiplicity of human languages, traditions, practices, etc. diversify and enrich our ways of being in the world; this multiplicity is a good thing. The post Nation Statism and the Jewish Tradition: William Cavanaugh Interviews Yaacov Yadgar appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
The myth that we are disenchanted is a form of self-congratulation used to marginalize those who do not fit the secular paradigm The post Critiquing the Idolatry of Nationalism: Yaacov Yadgar Interviews William Cavanaugh 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