As the US threatens to again attack Iran, Babak Rahimi writes on Habermas's death and on liberal democratic ideals: "Law no longer appeared as a rational normative force restraining power, but increasingly as the juridical expression of sovereign will." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

ENGAGING THE MADRASA is now available! These essays amplifies the richness of the #Islamic #Traditions while avoiding both conservative nostalgia or progressive amnesia. Congratulations to the contributors! #Modernity #Islam #Madrasa @cmnd.bsky.social Order your copy at: undpress.nd.edu/9780...

_Engaging the Madrasa_ edited by Ebrahim Moosa and Joshua Lupo is now out. Amir Hussain writes, "This marvelous volume details the madrasa tradition....It is that rare collection, filled not only with erudition but also with hope.” undpress.nd.edu/978026821103...

In his response to CM's symposium on _Hope in a Secular Age_, @dnewheiser.bsky.social writes, "By sustaining affirmation while facing uncertainty, hope sustains social movements that resist authoritarianism with creativity and courage." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Atalia Omer writes, "In contexts where people’s hopelessness is often also expressed in their hunger and marginalization, hope against despair means survival within, rather than transcendence of the...structures shaping their predicaments of insecurity." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

On _Hope in a Secular Age_, Joseph Winters writes, “It may be that a kind of giving up on certain prospects and objects of desire is precisely what is necessary to refuse the violent order of things (even though there is no escaping what is refused).” contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

ENGAGING THE MADRASA delves into the #Intellectual and #Political challenges that the #Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe. #Madrasa #Islam #Theology @cmnd.bsky.social Available in May! Learn more: undpress.nd.edu/9780...

In this short video, CM Co-Director Ebrahim Moosa introduces his new volume, _Muslim Theological Encounters with Science_ for Cambridge University Press's Elements series. vimeo.com/1181510712

Great piece.

Sayyid suggests Mamdani's win "can show that Islamophobia is not inevitable or invincible. It can spark the recognition that Islamophobia links the local and the global, the metropole and the periphery, the racial and the colonial."@reorient.bsky.social contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Jane Barter outlines a political theology of witnessing grounded in the remnant: "Witnessing without redemption offers no catharsis. . . . But it may be the only form of witness that does not repeat the catastrophe it seeks to remember." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In his response to Newheiser's _Hope in Secular Age_, Andrew Prevot writes, "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" contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Roger Baumann analyzes the weaponization of the Amalek narrative on a "mission" trip to Palestine/Israel with Pentecostal African American Christians and what it took to break through the dominant dehumanizing narrative about Palestinians they heard. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In the context of the US and Israeli war on Iran, Kharg Island is described solely in terms of economics and geopolitics. As Babak Rahimi argues, however, this framing excludes the rich cultural, religious, and ecological history of the island. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

In part II of her essay, Lena Salaymeh asks, "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?" contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

In part one of this two-part essay, Lena Salaymeh outlines the false promises of human rights and international law for the colonized, focusing in particular on the case of Palestine and one displaced man's burning of a book on human rights for his fire. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Against Catholic support of Zionism, Duffner and Cohen write, "Catholics cannot repair their relationship with Jews at the expense of Palestinians, who have experienced Zionism as subjugation, dispossession, and discrimination." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

In his synthetic response to @brandonbloch.bsky.social and Udi Greenberg's conversation, Will O'Brien asks: "Is there space in the genealogies of religious nationalism for a roadmap away from authoritarian exclusion?" @harvardpress.bsky.social contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In our forum on _Hope in a Secular Age_ Carolyn Chau writes, "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." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In part two of this CM conversation, brandonbloch.bsky.social interviews Udi Greenberg about _The End of Schism_. Together they discuss the forces that led to new levels of cooperation between Protestants and Catholics in Europe in the mid-20th century. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In conversation with Udi Greenberg, Brandon Bloch outlines post-war Protestants' unique approach to secularization, one where "the church did not retreat from politics but identified itself as the very source of secular democratic principles." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In “Judaism as Occupied Territory” Moshe Behar asks “Can the creeping occupation of Judaism by militant ethnonationalist Zionism be disrupted somehow?” contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In the next post in our series on David Newheiser's _Hope in a Secular Age_, Eva Braunstein reflects on the challenges of recovering a figure like Dionysius for democratic political projects in the present. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Sabina Ali describes how “a moral and political framework developed...by Indigenous peoples to challenge dispossession and assert sovereignty is redeployed to defend a powerful settler state and the ongoing occupation and displacement of Palestinians.” contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Read Devin Singh and Rick Elgendy's intro and Ted Vial's contribution to CM's symposium on David Newheiser's _Hope in a Secular Age_ Vial asks, "What are the practices that lead to creative engagement in the face of climate change and White nationalism?" contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In this letter, expert scholars urge state leaders in New Jersey to hold fast in their decision not to proceed with a vote on Bill A3558, which would adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliances's definition of antisemitism. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Barry Trachtenberg argues that the term antisemitism has become a "weapon in the hands of those who would silence critique, expand state violence, and perpetuate genocide." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

Is the Catholic Church's critique of private property new? Meghan J. Clark argues that the roots of this critique, present in both Pope Francis's and Pope Leo's teachings, has its roots in the early Christian community. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-curre...

It was fantastic seeing Ebrahim Moosa with a proof of ENGAGING THE MADRASA! This volume delves into the #Intellectual and #Political challenges that the #Muslim scholarly community faces. #Madrasa #Tradition #Modernity @cmnd.bsky.social Preorder via our #AARSBL25 exhibit: undpress.nd.edu/aar-...

In an interview with Josh Lupo, Andrew Prevot discusses his book, _The Mysticism of Ordinary Life: Theology, Philosophy, and Feminism_. They delve into how Prevot draws on feminism and womanism in his development of a theology of the mystical ordinary. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In his response, Springs reflects on the abolition vs. reform debate, the place of critical praxis in his methodology, and the potential challenges to his argument that Black theory and decolonial theory pose. @nyupress.bsky.social contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In her post on Jason Springs's _Restorative Justice and Lived Religion_, Connie Mick reflects on her how work as an instructor in an Indiana correctional facility resonates with the aims of restorative justice as Springs describes them. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

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...

Please join us for this online conversation tomorrow at 8am EST

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...