What is revolutionary about restorative justice is that it seeks a complete shift in the ideological foundation of how we think about crime, harm, community, safety, and the common good. The post Restorative Justice, Lived Religion, and the Theopolitics of Abortion appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
How might construing restorative justice practices as lived religion inform a moral and spiritual account of the broader ways we dwell together in communities?| Contending Modernities
Featured Publications Upcoming Events Blog Leadership Atalia Omer, CM Co-Director and Professor of Religion, Conflict and Peace Studies Josh Lupo,...| Contending Modernities
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
In the following statement, over 55 scholars of the Holocaust, genocide, and mass violence deplore the atrocity crimes against civilians...| Contending Modernities
The way of poverty, as lived by the earliest followers of Jesus, was the stubborn anchor and controversial standard of Francis’s reform papacy. The post Pope Francis, Liberalism, and a New Theology of Poverty appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
Through both his public declarations and private acts, Pope Francis offered a holistic witness to Palestinian humanity.| Contending Modernities
According to his detractors, Francis, in addition to “downplaying” the Church’s condemnation of abortion, failed sufficiently to condemn so-called sexual sins. The post Papal Sins Part II: The Four Papal “Sins” appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
Islamophobia is one of the ideological currents that significantly undergirds our current world order . . . and Zohran Mamdani’s election disrupts the flow of that ideological current. The post Zohran Mamdani and Strategic Islamophobia appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
The eyes of Silwan represent the power of the dead for the living in Palestine. The post The Eyes of Silwan: The “Undefeated” Powers of Palestinian Struggle appeared first on Contending Modernities.| Contending Modernities
The U.S. Catholic community—numbering 53 million self-identified Catholic adults, or roughly one-fifth of the U.S. population—is complex and layered (as is the phrase “opposition to Pope Francis”).| Contending Modernities
That Pope Francis seemed to resist the logic of the progressive/conservative binary is an indication of how ill-equipped we are to make sense of religious actors using categories derived from a political framework.| 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
Without critical analysis of the gendered, racialized, and sexualized asymmetry of power . . . interreligious peacebuilding serves only a heteropatriarchal neocolonialism.| Contending Modernities
Constructing responsive theory to understand and evaluate the dynamics of modernity.| Contending Modernities
Theological Literacy for Human Dignity Since 2017 the Madrasa Discourses project has been at the forefront of efforts to equip...| Contending Modernities
