Ki-Eun Jang argues that artificial intelligence, in the form of large language models, allows users to repackage and circulate biblical narratives in ways that reinforce colonial forms of knowledge. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/decolonialit...

In "Resurrecting the Corporate Body," Brandon Taylor reflects on the moral framework that shaped the original understanding of the idea of the corporation and just how far it has drifted from that framework in the neoliberal era. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In her piece for CM Co-Director Atalia Omer writes, "The Gaza genocide has compelled Israeli and Zionist representatives to emphasize their alignment with White supremacy rather than Christian eschatology." studychristianzionism.org/charlie-kirk...

In this response post, @dramycarr.bsky.social tests Springs’s transformative theory of justice and reconciliation by drawing on a story of corruption and reconciliation from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

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Responding to _Restorative Justice and Lived Religion_, Josh Lupo writes, "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 in its own right." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Welcome to the funhouse: Read James Howard Hill Jr.'s reflections on lived religion, whiteness, and Black Theory in the study of religion in his contribution to our symposium on Springs's _Restorative Justice and Lived Religion_ contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Today, our symposium on Jason Springs's _Restorative Justice and Lived Religion_ launches with an introduction from @theologygurl.bsky.social and the first contribution from James Howard Hill Jr. @nyupress.bsky.social contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

"God is tired and defeated and They’ve decided that it’s time / To vacate Their home in the sky and move down to a tent in Gaza." Read "God is Getting Tired," a poem by Thandi Gamedze. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Our series on Pope Francis's legacy addresses his reception among US Catholic neotraditionalists, his advocacy for Palestinians, his defiance of easy political categorizations, and the influence of liberation theology on his thought. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

David Lantigua writes, "Against both political liberalism and economic neoliberalism, Francis identified popular piety in the streets and the social function of property as antidotes to the privatization of religion and the new tyranny of money." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

John and Samuel Munayer write, "For Palestinians, especially Palestinian Christians, Pope Francis’s legacy is a call to believe that even within ancient institutions and hegemonies, cracks can form, light can enter, and solidarity can emerge." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Watch CM Co-Director Ebrahim Moosa present his lecture, "Understanding of Islam Today: Bridging Tradition with Modernity through a New Theory of Knowledge" hosted by The Institute for Ismaili Studies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IK4...

In part II of his essay on the legacy of Pope Francis among neotraditionalist US Catholics, Scott Appleby details the four sins of which his critics claim he is guilty: downplaying sins of the flesh, pride, political heresy, and ecclesiological heresy. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

On Mamdani's victory in the democratic primary for NYC mayor, Sarah Eltantawi writes, “Islamophobia is one of the ideological currents that significantly undergirds our current world order...and his election disrupts the flow of that ideological current.” contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Mark Lewis Taylor writes of occupation and resistance in Silwan: "Maybe as we stood there in Silwan, we were watching 'slow genocide' as a structural process, while nearby, Gazans were experiencing genocide as a stark and brutal event." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

CM Co-Director Scott Appleby explores neotraditionalist Catholic critiques of Pope Francis among the laity, the clergy, and professionally organized groups for what they saw as too progressive and "pastoral" a pontificate. @keoughglobalnd.bsky.social contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

In the second part of their CM conversation, @bethhurd.bsky.social and Hannah Strømmen discuss the role of masculinity in far-right movements today and the importance of focusing on affect when studying them. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In part one of this conversation, @bethhurd.bsky.social reflects on the various "biblical assemblages" that Hannah Strømmen investigates in _The Bibles of the Far Right_, focusing in particular on "masculine maximalism" across far-right movements today. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Sarah Shortall reflects on why Francis's theology scrambles Left/Right divisions on US culture war issues, arguing that this was due to his prioritization of issues facing the Global South and to his Jesuit training. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

In her response to Yaacov Yadgar and William Cavanaugh's CM conversation, Atalia Omer reflects on the authors' conceptualization of idolatry, the relationship between Zionism and supersessionism, the limits of immanent critique, and more. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

William Cavanaugh interviews Yaacov Yadgar about _To Be a Jewish State_: "Nation-statism usurps tradition. The modern state must 'deal' with the traditions carried and practiced by those in the name of which the state claims sovereignty." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In a conversation with Yaacov Yadgar, William Cavanaugh discusses his book, _The Uses of Idolatry_. Cavanaugh writes, "The myth that we are disenchanted is a form of self-congratulation used to marginalize those who do not fit the secular paradigm." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Responding to posts on _Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuidling, Omer writes, "Positing the causality of violence in Palestine/Israel in terms of presumably competing religious claims contradicts centuries of interwoven communal life in the region." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Faith-based organizations can challenge colonial ideologies that shape the #peacebuilding “harmony industry," argues Emma Tomalin of the @universityofleeds.bsky.social. #development #decolonial contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In her poem, "God is Getting Tired," Thandi Gamedze writes, "It’s clear that God is getting tired / That God is tired / That God has been tired for twenty horrifying months / For 76 horrifying years" contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

In its admittance of White Afrikaner's as refugees, Shaun Casey concludes that the Trump administration is running afoul not only of international norms around who is counted as a refugee, but the religious values the administration claims to uphold. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

On #WorldRefugeeDay2025 read Julie Schumacher Cohen's reflections on resistance amongst religious leaders to the Trump administration's policy of admitting Afrikaner's as refugees to the US. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Drawing on Salim Vally’s concept of “inter-racist solidarity,” Thandi Gamedze analyzes the case of White Afrikaners being welcomed as refugees into the US and the operation of White Supremacy across South Africa, the US, and Palestine/Israel. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Commentator Peter Beinart’s family viewed Israel as a place of security and flourishing. It wasn’t until he met #Palestinians in the West Bank that he faced the level of brutality from a state that is completely unaccountable to them. #Israel #Gaza contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Next up in our series on Atalia Omer's _Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding_are J. P. Reed's reflections on agency, intersectionality, and pragmatism. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

On the resettlement of White Afrikaners as refugees, A. Rashied Omar writes, "When refuge becomes the privilege of the powerful rather than the shield of the vulnerable, we are not merely distorting the ideals of humanitarianism, we are dismantling them." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

K. Christine Pae writes, "A critical hermeneutic needs to trace the everydayness of interreligious engagement and dialogue, as well as everyday materiality in religious peacebuilding, namely, embodied peacebuilding." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

CM's series on Atalia Omer's _Decolonizing Religion and Peacebuilding_ begins today with an introduction from blog editor Josh Lupo and a post from Robert Orsi. Contributions to come from Emma Tomalin, K. Christine Pae, and J. P. Reed. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In his response post, @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social writes, "Why do we always need more voices, traces, and archives? What does such inclusion, connection, and assimilation promise?" contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

On Rajbir Singh Judge's _Prophetic Maharaja_, Harini Kumar writes, "Refusal remains a potent idea across disciplinary silos, and the refusals in Judge’s book offer provocations that scholars of South Asia and beyond will be contending with for some time." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Randeep Singh Hothi: "The lesson is an orientation to life with loss amidst the play of presence and absence and for that matter loss and recuperation, but also unmoored from any preoccupation with them."

On @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's _Prophetic Maharaja_, Randeep Singh Hothi writes "The caution against fixation radicalizes the possibility of learning, because neither method nor object can be guaranteed by the recuperation of what is lost." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Next in our series on @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's _Prophetic Maharaja_, Nirvikar Singh reflects on the lessons that Judge's book holds for the present, especially in addressing the material problems facing Sikhs in Punjab. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In the next post in our series on @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's _Prophetic Maharaja_, manmit singh writes, "The insistence that queerness and transness are everywhere is an insistence that the Divine is everywhere." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In her recent post for ReOrientations, CM Co-Director Atalia Omer asks, "What is the role of the counter-archiving of Judeo-Muslim worlds in reshaping alternative decolonial horizons of Muslimness and Muslim political subjectivities?" criticalmuslimstudies.co.uk/searching-in...

Our symposium on @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's _Prophetic Maharaja_ begins today with an intro from blog editor Josh Lupo and Purnima Dhavan's essay. Lupo reflects on Judge's challenge to traditional historiography and the politics that emerges from it. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In her response to CM's forum on her book _Colonizing Kashmir_ Hafsa Kanjwal reflects on the questions raised by the contributors related to sovereignty, the politics of life, and settler colonialism. @stanfordpress.bsky.social contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In his post on Kanjwal's _Colonizing Kashmir_, Matthew Schutzer examines how Indian state sovereignty operates in Kashmir and among Adivasi communities in India through "the utterances of the law, and its everyday and routine silences.” contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Next in our series on Kanjwal's _Colonizing Kashmir_ Amen Jaffer asks: "How does the politics of life compare with other modes of colonial governmentality that are based on extraction, racialization, denial of sovereignty or genocidal violence?" contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Shaul Magid explores the problems with how some Israeli leaders compare Hamas to Amalek. He argues that essentializing Hamas, and sometimes all Palestinians, as evil obscures more than it reveals about Hamas' motives and the Israeli response to October 7. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

In her post on Hafsa Kanjwal's _Colonizing Kashmir_ Ather Zia reflects on the way gendered representations of Kashmiri men and women have been used to justify India's colonial oppression in the region. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In his introduction to CM's symposium on Hafsa Kanjwal's _Colonizing Kashmir_, blog editor Josh Lupo asks: What happens when the postcolonial state becomes an agent of colonization and not merely one of its victims? @stanfordpress.bsky.social contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Reflecting on recent statements from VP Vance on Christian love, MT Dávila writes, “The measure of Christian love is not a set of boundaries around specific kinds of people, but, rather, the gift of God’s crossing all boundaries through the Incarnation.” contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Is Project Esther really about fighting antisemitism - or is it about silencing dissent? Prof. Atalia Omer (University of Notre Dame) breaks down how Project Esther weaponizes antisemitism to suppress pro-Palestine activism and push a right-wing agenda. www.youtube.com/shorts/QwrD0...