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In “Judaism as Occupied Territory” Moshe Behar asks “Can the creeping occupation of Judaism by militant ethnonationalist Zionism be disrupted somehow?”
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Judaism as an Occupied Territory | Contending Modernities
Can the creeping occupation of Judaism by militant ethnonationalist Zionism be disrupted somehow?
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February 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
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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.
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How Democratic is Dionysian Hierarchy? | Contending Modernities
If ecclesiastical or clerical hierarchy is modeled on that of the heavens, on what authority could an ordinary person dispute this power arrangement, modify it, or dissent from it?
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February 4, 2026 at 1:32 PM
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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.”
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Weaponizing Indigeneity: Zionist Media Discourse on Possessing Palestine | Contending Modernities
Indigenous peoples articulate Land as part of an interconnected web of relations and responsibilities, a mode of relating that cannot be reconciled with the structural violence of modern nation-states...
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January 29, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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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...
Introduction to Symposium on Hope in a Secular Age | Contending Modernities
Hope thrives not in certainty but in the creative tension of becoming—a disciplined assertion that even amidst dislocation, the potential for renewal persists.
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January 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
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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.
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Letter from Scholars of the Holocaust, Jewish History, and Antisemitism Against the Adoption of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism in New Jersey | Contending Modernities
Targeting Jews for the way they express themselves as Jews is very clearly not part of a struggle against antisemitism, but antisemitic itself.
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January 11, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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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."
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The End of Antisemitism: How the Fight Against Hate Became a Weapon of Repression | Contending Modernities
By insisting that Israel deserved special treatment because of Jewish suffering the Israeli state and its supporters reinforced and exploited the very logic of antisemitism they claimed to oppose.
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December 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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.
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Dilexi Te: An Invitation to Reflect on Catholic Social Doctrine alongside the Early Church | Contending Modernities
Dilexi te is a call to accompany the vulnerable, excluded, and marginalized as God accompanies them.
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December 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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

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December 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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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.
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Mysticism, the Ordinary, and the Sacred: An Interview with Andrew Prevot | Contending Modernities
Theological mysticism is not anti-normative per se. It is only hostile to those norms that unjustly stigmatize, imperil, or otherwise harm the precious, mysterious creatures God has made.
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December 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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...
Against Abolition, Against Reform: The Case for a Transformational Vision of Restorative Justice | Contending Modernities
Approached holistically, restorative justice is a theory of justice with concrete practices that foster moral and spiritual forms of association between people.
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December 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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.
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Restorative Justice and Prison Education as Transformative Visions of Justice | Contending Modernities
And for just a second I felt that transformative flash. I felt that maybe this book has the power to stop bullets.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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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.
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The Influencer in Eden: De/coloniality of the AI Data Paradigm and the Counter-exegesis of Human Life | Contending Modernities
Where ancient readers saw gaps and filled them with giants and fallen angels, modern humanity sees those same spaces and fills them with AI-mediated imaginations.
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November 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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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
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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
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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
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October 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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