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Development Archives | Contending Modernities
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/field-notes/crs-lessons-in-contemporary-religion-conflict-and-peacebuilding/
CRS: Lessons in Contemporary Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding | Contending Modernities
Feb 23, 2017 - Garrett Fitzgerald shares takeaways from the CRS case studies.
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Law and Politics under the Abbasids: A Symposium | Contending Modernities
Jan 27, 2024 - The coherence in the Juwaynian project is by no means assumed in this book. Rather, it is demonstrated through a painstaking reading of a number of his most...
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Keunjoo Christine Pae, Author at Contending Modernities
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Symposium on The Moral Triangle Archives | Contending Modernities
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Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality in Ivory Coast | Contending Modernities
Aug 13, 2019 - Sub-Saharan African societies, described as community-oriented, are often compared with Western societies pictured as individualistic. But this simplistic...
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Prayer and Action Archives | Contending Modernities
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Sacrifice Archives | Contending Modernities
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Maura Ryan, Author at Contending Modernities
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Transnational Solidarity and the Legacy of Tutu Archives | Contending Modernities
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At the End of Reason: On Anne Norton on the Muslim Question | Contending Modernities
Feb 9, 2023 - When the western imaginary happened to be puritanical, Muslims were cast as lascivious and dissolute, when the western imaginary loosened up a bit, Muslims...
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The Apocalypse is Human-Made: Playing with Fire from Al-Aqsa to Gaza | Contending Modernities
Feb 1, 2024 - The confluence of sacred times and spaces (national and religious) is explosive, and those pulling triggers and making decisions targeting religious...
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Secular India or Hindu Nation: A Short History | Contending Modernities
May 9, 2024 - Modi chose Varanasi as his electoral constituency, since it is the holiest city for Hindus, but he had his sights set on Ayodhya.
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Prayer in Action: Supplication and Prayer in a Time of Crisis | Contending Modernities
May 26, 2017 - Too often we have a distortion of spatiality, a separation of my group and myself from the other. By entertaining strangers we recognize that we are all...
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ACI proposal Archives | Contending Modernities
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Body Archives | Contending Modernities
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Film Screening: From Ground Zero (2024) | Contending Modernities
12/02/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm - Directed by Aws Al-Banna, Ahmed Al-Danf, Basil Al-Maqousi and others With Kenzi Al Balbisi, Mohammed Kamel, Damo Nidal In...
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Anand Taneja, Author at Contending Modernities
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Ordinary Life Archives | Contending Modernities
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Amaryah Armstrong, Author at Contending Modernities
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Definitions of Personhood in Islamic Normative Texts | Contending Modernities
Aug 7, 2019 - Since the 7th century, Islamic normative texts have emphasized the importance of ensoulment and outer appearance in the definition of personhood.
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A. Rashied Omar, Author at Contending Modernities
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Adeshina Afolayan, Author at Contending Modernities
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Symposium on Law and Politics under the Abbasids Archives | Contending Modernities
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Communalism Archives | Contending Modernities
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A New Egypt | Contending Modernities
Aug 1, 2019 - In the aftermath of Mubarak's resignation, Egypt stands at the dawn of a new era. It is an era borne of the ingenuity, sacrifices and dedication of an entire...
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The Subject of Ethics | Contending Modernities
Oct 26, 2020 - What the ethicists offer us is, in part, the reminder that ethical self-cultivation is the bedrock of a moral society. What Ayubi offers us is the assurance...
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United States Archives | Contending Modernities
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Formats and Formalities of Oceanic Knowledge: Exploring 'Maritime Modernities' | ZWG
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Weaponizing Antisemitism is Bad for Jews, Israel, and Peace | Contending Modernities
Jan 27, 2024 - Antisemitism, like other forms of racism and bigotry, should be rejected by appeals to human rights and justice, not through the closure of critical thinking...
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https://www.research.ed.ac.uk/en/activities/irish-seminar-2019-british-and-irish-modernities/
Irish Seminar 2019: British and Irish Modernities - University of Edinburgh Research Explorer
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/islamic-feminism-in-spain-and-beyond/
Islamic Feminism in Spain and Beyond | Contending Modernities
Jul 30, 2019 - Two days last month I got up at 4 a.m. to attend the Fourth International Feminist Conference in Spain. Why so early? Because I participated via my computer in...
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border-living Archives | Contending Modernities
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Science and the Human Person 2019 Series Archives | Contending Modernities
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Antisemitism and Other Hates | Contending Modernities
Sep 30, 2024 - The contemporary weaponization of antisemitism is the realization of an ethno-religious state project that purports the only way to imagine Jewish community is...
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Turkey Archives | Contending Modernities
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Hesburgh Library | Contending Modernities
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A Response to Sherine Hamdy and Charles Camosy | Contending Modernities
Aug 12, 2019 - Camosy and Hamdy both offer us food for thought in regard to the specific cases they present, as well as to the wider concerns of the Science and the Human...
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UvA DARE | Brokering Sonic Modernities: migrant Manila musicians in the Asia Pacific, 1881-1948
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Houria Bouteldja, Author at Contending Modernities
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Indigenous Archives | Contending Modernities
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Biko Gray, Author at Contending Modernities
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London Archives | Contending Modernities
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Aline Kalbian, Author at Contending Modernities
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Two American Fears: Islamophobia and Homophobia | Contending Modernities
Jan 27, 2024 - This moment presents both difficulties and opportunities for analyzing the intersections of Islamophobia and homophobia. By historicizing the emergence of...
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/jerusalem_muslims/
The Social Fabric of Jerusalem: Memories in the Wake of Christian Exodus | Contending Modernities
Apr 17, 2018 - When a plant or animal disappears, we expect the entire ecosystem to be impacted. We often forget that human communities form the same deep relationships.
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Gold-Plated Jerusalem | Contending Modernities
Jul 9, 2020 - In the real world, west Jerusalem is the capital of Israel; east Jerusalem is a city in waiting. Jerusalem the holy city is in exile.
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Moch Nur Ichwan, Author at Contending Modernities
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Palestine Archives | Page 2 of 8 | Contending Modernities
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About Our Staff: Fenian Kenney | Contending Modernities
Nov 8, 2024 - Fenian Kenney is a doctoral student at Princeton University in the Department of French and Italian, where her research focuses...
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Christian theology Archives | Page 2 of 3 | Contending Modernities
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Margot Badran, Author at Contending Modernities
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Mona Siddiqui, Author at Contending Modernities
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Cathleen Kaveny Archives | Contending Modernities
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Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council, Author at Contending Modernities
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Palestine/Israel: Lessons from South Africa | Contending Modernities
Feb 19, 2024 - 23/02/2024 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm - As the humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate and settler violence in the West Bank continues, calls among...
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https://irh.wisc.edu/event/enchanted-modernities-akha-inventions-of-religion-in-upper-mainland-southeast-asia-and-southwest-china/
Enchanted Modernities: Akha Inventions of Religion in Upper Mainland Southeast Asia and Southwest...
Monday Seminar: Micah Morton Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellow (2013-2014) Anthropology, UW-Madison Much is being made of a dramatic resurgence in the...
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Joshua S. Lupo, Author at Contending Modernities | Page 3 of 4
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Nationalism Archives | Page 2 of 2 | Contending Modernities
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manmit singh, Author at Contending Modernities
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Tragic Modernities, by Miriam Leonard | Times Higher Education (THE)
Aug 20, 2015 - Barbara Graziosi on an ambitious and well-researched study
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LGBTQ Archives | Contending Modernities
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https://gssc.uni-koeln.de/en/wissenstransfer/voices-from-around-the-world/global-modernities-and-the-re-emergence-of-ghosts
Global Modernities and the (Re-)Emergence of Ghosts
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Rebecca Todd Peters, Author at Contending Modernities
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/how-democratic-is-dionysian-hierarchy/
How Democratic is Dionysian Hierarchy? | Contending Modernities
Feb 4, 2026 - If ecclesiastical or clerical hierarchy is modeled on that of the heavens, on what authority could an ordinary person dispute this power arrangement, modify...
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/cultivating-disruption/
Cultivating Disruption: On Hope in a Secular Age | Contending Modernities
Apr 22, 2026 - I wonder if it is precisely the cultivated desire to persist (in a certain manner) that forecloses the possibility of rupture, abolition, and dissolution.
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Daniel Madigan, S.J., Author at Contending Modernities
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Gender, State & Society Archives | Contending Modernities
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Egypt Archives | Contending Modernities
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Introduction to Symposium on Colonizing Kashmir | Contending Modernities
Mar 25, 2025 - What happens when the postcolonial state itself becomes an agent of colonization and not merely one of its victims?
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Pedagogy Archives | Contending Modernities
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Barry Trachtenberg, Author at Contending Modernities
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Ebenezer Obadare, Author at Contending Modernities
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Elias Bongmba, Author at Contending Modernities
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Susannah Heschel, Author at Contending Modernities
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/about/research-areas/science-and-the-human-person/engaging-tradition/
Engaging Tradition | Contending Modernities
Jul 16, 2018 - Catholicism and Islam are home to long traditions of philosophical, theological, and legal reflection on the nature and dignity of...
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Doubling Down on Anti-anti-Intellectualism | Contending Modernities
Jan 24, 2024 - The transition from an authority based broadly on reason to one based on revelation is one of the most consequential developments in postcolonial Nigerian...
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Ahmet Tekelioglu, Author at Contending Modernities
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Charisma Archives | Contending Modernities
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Nakba Archives | Contending Modernities
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UvA DARE | Theorising uncertainty and risk across different modernities: considering insights from...
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Being Jewish after the Destruction of Gaza | Contending Modernities
Feb 11, 2025 - 03/03/2025 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm - Wrestling with the fallout of the war in Gaza on Jewish identity, political commentator Peter Beinart reckons with how to...
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Authority, Community & Identity Archives | Contending Modernities
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/the-islamic-call-for-a-free-egypt/
The Islamic Call for a Free Egypt | Contending Modernities
Aug 2, 2019 - When the Arab Spring began earlier this year, first in Tunis and then in Egypt, many in the West felt sympathetic. But other people saw a risk: What if the...
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https://lnu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:515753
Legal Modernities : conceptual transformations around the management of human mobility in...
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The Modernities of H. Lawrence Freeman :
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Books and Journals | Institute for Comparative Modernities
The ICM Book Series seeks to galvanize new research by encouraging cross-disciplinary collaborations that advance a relational analysis of modernity sensitive...
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Post Colonialism Archives | Contending Modernities
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Alternative Modernities in Europe. | Slovo
Edited by ANDREI BODIU, RODICA ILIE, ADRIAN LACATUS and GEORGETA MOARCAS. Pp. 366. Cluj Napoca: Casa Cartii de Stiinta. 2013. Paperback. ISBN: 9786061704538....
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Safety through Solidarity: A Book Launch | Contending Modernities
Jan 27, 2025 - White supremacy, under the pretense of fighting antisemitism, is mounting an assault on minoritized communities. Understanding how antisemitism works is...
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Cameroon Archives | Contending Modernities
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The Public Launch of Contending Modernities | Contending Modernities
Jul 30, 2019 - On Nov. 18 and 19, 2010, dozens of scholars, religious leaders, business people, and friends and alumni of Notre Dame gathered in New York for the inauguration...
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Emmanuel Macron Archives | Contending Modernities
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Hope Archives | Contending Modernities
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Northern Ireland Archives | Contending Modernities
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/field-notes/changing-conceptions-of-the-human-person/
Changing Conceptions of the Human Person | Contending Modernities
Aug 5, 2019 - The Science and the Human Person working group aims to advance a global interreligious and intercultural conversation about science, technology, and the human...
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/author/sydney-schlager/
Sydney Schlager, Author at Contending Modernities
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https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/field-notes/aesthetic-past/
In Pursuit of Our Aesthetic Past | Contending Modernities
Oct 4, 2018 - What was it that disconnected the vast majority of South Asian Muslims from this vibrant tradition of art and creativity?
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The Carolina Theatre of Durham | Contending Modernities
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