Rather than romanticizing African suffering, Senghor’s Eucharist seeks to bring it to the fore so that it may be attenuated

My book seeks to explore how Nigerian literary texts help us to understand Nigerian Christianity—offering creative representations of it, but also critical commentaries on the socio-political impact o...

Moser's archeological dig into Jewish pasts redirects attention away from Jewish accountability to Palestinians.

That is the unsettling question at the heart of Professor Ebrahim Moosa’s scholarly paper, “Gaza and Muslim Political Theology: Three Meditations on Justice,

The modern state did not become secular by becoming symbolically empty.

Hegseth not only rejects any notion of gender except that which is binary and patriarchal, but also sees a certain kind of masculinity rooted in the character of God.

The modern era has witnessed not only religiously inspired violence but also large-scale violence carried out in the name of secularist ideologies and projects.

The urgent task is not to read Iran better, but to stop believing that reading a memoir amounts to intellectual mastery.

US racial formations produce a situation in which Copts are pulled simultaneously into Christian kinship and held at racial distance.

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Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits to their designated domain. But they can never entirely be contained.

In decentering power from Western states and European modern frameworks, Theology after Gaza creates new alliances as people with similar struggles cohere around Gaza and Palestine.

The old oppositions between "secular" and "religious" Jewish life are breaking apart, at least on the left, and perhaps, were never really what we imagined them to be to begin with.

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What does the history of American Jewish anti-Zionism look like if one puts left-wing social movements at the center of that story?

Teddy Afro’s song, for all its theological limitations, expresses what Ethiopia’s churches have too often lost: the capacity to grieve publicly, truthfully, and across ethnic lines.

The same hubris that animates Trumpism’s uncritical embrace of AI is evident in the administration’s apparent conviction that it has the right to intervene militarily in any country that fails to do i...

The ethnocultural empathic turn names a pattern of transformation in which religious actors, institutions, and narratives shift away from the ethnoreligious production of boundaries and toward practic...

Habermas’s liberal idealism may now linger as a kind of story most visible at the edge of disappearance, where loss and transmission drift together under the shadow of perpetual war.

Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe.The rapid developments ...

By sustaining affirmation while facing uncertainty, hope sustains social movements that resist authoritarianism with creativity and courage.

where people’s hopelessness is often also expressed in their hunger and marginalization, hope against despair means survival within, rather than transcendence of, the institutions and power structures...

I wonder if it is precisely the cultivated desire to persist (in a certain manner) that forecloses the possibility of rupture, abolition, and dissolution.

Muslim Theological Encounters with Science, Muslim Theological Encounters with Science dismantles the “Islamic decline” narrative by showing how science and theology have long coexisted in Muslim civi...

A political victory can show that Islamophobia is not inevitable or invincible. It can spark the recognition that Islamophobia connects the local and the global, the metropolitan and the periphery, th...

Witnessing, then, is not about closure but interruption. It is an ethical practice oriented toward what remains unresolved in the present.

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.

The weaponization of religious narratives is a powerful force in shaping perceptions and stimulating political solidarities. But so is a brief humanizing encounter as a bridge to empathy.

Kharg still holds histories waiting to be uncovered—spectral traces that have shaped the island through mourning and devotion, where land and sea were not merely resources but sites of sacred belongin...

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?

Law does not exist in legal sources, but in the interpretation and application of legal sources.

Catholics cannot repair their relationship with Jews at the expense of Palestinians, who have experienced Zionism as subjugation, dispossession, and discrimination.

Is there space in the genealogies of religious nationalism for a roadmap away from authoritarian exclusion?

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.

Catholics and Protestants understood each other vis-à-vis new movements that sought to transform economic, gendered, and colonial orders.

Postwar Protestant intellectuals spearheaded a complementary but distinct form of secularization: one in which the church did not retreat from politics but identified itself as the very source of secu...

Can the creeping occupation of Judaism by militant ethnonationalist Zionism be disrupted somehow?

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?

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...

Hope thrives not in certainty but in the creative tension of becoming—a disciplined assertion that even amidst dislocation, the potential for renewal persists.

Targeting Jews for the way they express themselves as Jews is very clearly not part of a struggle against antisemitism, but antisemitic itself.

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.

Dilexi te is a call to accompany the vulnerable, excluded, and marginalized as God accompanies them.

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.

Approached holistically, restorative justice is a theory of justice with concrete practices that foster moral and spiritual forms of association between people.