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Contending Modernities is a global interdisciplinary research & education initiative examining Catholic, Muslim and secular interactions in the modern world.

University of Notre Dame เข้าร่วม Ekim 2012
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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-current…
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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-current…
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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-current…
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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-mod…
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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. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-mod…
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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.” contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-mod…
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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-mod…
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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. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-current…
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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. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-current…
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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. contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-mod…
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