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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.
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Resurrecting the Corporate Body: On the Flight of a Legal Fugitive | Contending Modernities
The modern economy reproduces a political theology of obligation, binding collective life to an abstract order while evacuating it of covenantal purpose
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November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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.
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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."
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Charlie Kirk’s Assassination and “Judeo-Christian” Racism
by Atalia Omer
From Pink- to White-Washing
As journalist Ali Harb noted, the loud outpouring of eulogies and tributes for Charlie Kirk by Israeli and other Jewish Zionist leaders was deafening. Isra...
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October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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."
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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.
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Reflections on Restorative Justice as Lived Religion: Comparative Notes from a Rural Reservation Town in Upper Michigan | 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?
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October 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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.
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October 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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."
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Is Restorative Justice a Tradition? Reframing the Practices and Values of Restorative Justice | 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.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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."
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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_
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Notes from the Funhouse: Disciplinarity and the Haunting Aporia of Black Lived Religion in the United States | 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 wit...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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_
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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
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Introduction to Symposium On Restorative Justice and Lived Religion | 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.
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September 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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
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"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.
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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.
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God is Getting Tired | Contending Modernities
It’s clear that God is getting tired
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September 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"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.
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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.
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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.
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The Enigma of 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 politi...
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September 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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.
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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."
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Pope Francis, Liberalism, and a New Theology of Poverty | 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.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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."
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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."
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Cracks in the Wall: Pope Francis and Palestine | Contending Modernities
Through both his public declarations and private acts, Pope Francis offered a holistic witness to Palestinian humanity.
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August 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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."
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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.
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Understanding of Islam Today: Bridging Tradition with Modernity through a New Theory of Knowledge
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August 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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.
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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.
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Papal Sins Part II: The Four Papal "Sins" | 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.
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August 25, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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.
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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.”
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Zohran Mamdani and Strategic Islamophobia | 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.
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August 18, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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.”
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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."
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The Eyes of Silwan: The “Undefeated” Powers of Palestinian Struggle | Contending Modernities
The eyes of Silwan represent the power of the dead for the living in Palestine.
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August 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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."
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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...
Papal Sins Part I: Opposition to Pope Francis in the American Catholic Church | 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”).
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August 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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.
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Bibles Belong to All of Us: Elizabeth Shkaman Hurd Interviews Hannah Strømmen | Contending Modernities
Taking affective investments seriously can be transformative for understanding the staying power of trends and tendencies in biblical reception.
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August 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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.
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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.
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Bibles Belong to All of Us: Masculinity, Civilization, and the Bibles of the Far Right | Contending Modernities
What does a focus on biblical assemblages together with the far-right allow us to see anew?
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August 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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.
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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.
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The Enigma of 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 politi...
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July 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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.
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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.
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The Urgency of Idolatry Critique: A Synthetic Response to Yadgar and Cavanaugh | 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 racializati...
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July 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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.
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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."
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Nation Statism and the Jewish Tradition: William Cavanaugh Interviews Yaacov Yadgar | 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
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July 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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."
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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."
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Critiquing the Idolatry of Nationalism: Yaacov Yadgar Interviews William Cavanaugh | 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
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July 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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."
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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."
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In the Ruins of the Modern | Contending Modernities
Is it possible to decolonize secularity and extract it from its nest in racialized modern and colonial formations?
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July 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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."
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Faith-based organizations can challenge colonial ideologies that shape the #peacebuilding “harmony industry," argues Emma Tomalin of the
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A Call for a New Approach to Religion and Peacebuilding | Contending Modernities
By shifting our perspective, we can uncover pathways for more equitable, locally driven peace initiatives that challenge, rather than reinforce, colonial frameworks.
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July 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Faith-based organizations can challenge colonial ideologies that shape the #peacebuilding “harmony industry," argues Emma Tomalin of the
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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"
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God is Getting Tired | Contending Modernities
It’s clear that God is getting tired
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June 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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"
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