Contending Modernities is a global interdisciplinary research & education initiative examining Catholic, Muslim and secular interactions in the modern world.
University of Notre Dame
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What is the shape of Islamophobia today? Read part 1 of Khaled Beydoun's analysis of the shift in anti-Muslim hate from the perceived threat of terrorism after 9/11 to its more recent focus on the electoral success of Muslim political candidates.
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In the second part of their conversation, Adriaan van Klinken interviews @ProfDNgong about _Senghor's Eucharist_. They discuss the power of Senghor's reinterpretation of the Eucharist in the African context. “Rather than romanticizing African suffering, Senghor’s Eucharist seeks to bring it to the fore so that it may be attenuated.” @Baylor_Press
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What is the relationship between religion, literature, and decolonization? In these interviews, Adriaan van Klinken and @ProfDNgong reflect on these issues in a conversation about their recent books on Nigerian and Senegalese literature. This first interview us out now. @PSUPress
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On Benjamin Moser's new book, _Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History_, Atalia Omer writes, "A recovery of lost stories and lost movements holds no value for the Palestinians who have undergone a genocide in Gaza and the ongoing Nakba."
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Watch and read the @MuslimViews_SA interview with @EbrahimMoosa about his article on Gaza and political theology for @PolTheoNetwork
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In his post, @cealiv writes, "The interesting question is not whether supposedly secular institutions are secretly religious. It is whether secular political orders continue to organize authority through distinctions that are older than the language of constitutional law itself."
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Erin K. Wilson writes, "As long as our global public policy and diplomacy continue to sideline religion, or only address transparent caricatured remnants of its totality, the violence and trauma will continue."
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How should we understand the Christian nationalism on display at the US Department of Defense? @julieingersoll draws on Bruce Lincoln's distinction between "maximalist" and "minimalist" forms of religion to explain this all encompassing vision of religious life in the US.
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In his new book, _Broken Altars: Secular Violence in Modern History_ (@yalepress) Tal Howard tells the story of how secular regimes, in all their political varieties, have engaged in violence against religious actors.
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Ahoo Najafian reflects on the legacy of Marjane Satrapi's _Persepolis_. "No memoir owes us a sociological totality. The problem begins when readers ask one memoir to become the moral and political explanation for an entire nation."
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In the second part of their conversation, Tisa Wenger interviews @lukasik_c on _Martyrs and Migrants_. They discuss, among many other topics, the value a transnational studies for unpacking the "tentacles of American empire." @NYUpress
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Read CM Director @EbrahimMoosa's article, "Gaza and Muslim Political Theology: Three Meditations on Justice, Extermination, and the Humanitarian Order" in the journal for @PolTheoNetwork.
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What a treat to be in conversation with Tisa Wenger on her incredible, new book, Spirits of Empire (@UNC_Press) and many thanks to @Modernities for the invitation!
In part one of their conversation, @lukasik_c interviews Tisa Wenger on _Spirits of Empire_ (@UNC_Press). "Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits to their designated domain. But they can never entirely be contained."
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In part one of their conversation, @lukasik_c interviews Tisa Wenger on _Spirits of Empire_ (@UNC_Press). "Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits to their designated domain. But they can never entirely be contained."
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Read about @danieura, @RahebM, and Graham McGeoch's conversation: "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."
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Congratulations, @alialtafmian! ISLAMIC ETHICS AND SPIRITUAL SOVEREIGNTY is now available. This #NewBook is grounded in the vast textual #Archive one of modern South Asia's foremost #Muslim #Theologians and Sufis. #Genre #Sovereignty #SouthAsia #Ethics
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ALT Cover for Mian’s "Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty." The full title and author’s name appear in a white box to the right of a painting of light and dark clouds and a dark blue sky. Accompanying text: "'Opens up new avenues, not only in the study of Islam and modernity, but in broader dimensions of comparative religions and cultures.' -Marcia Hermansen"
Francesca Freeman and @BL_Balthaser discuss how religious observance has (and has not) shaped Jewish left-wing movements, the place of nostalgia in grassroots politics, and what role history should play in shaping activism in the present.
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Watch @EbrahimMoosa present on Muslim liberation theology for Michigan State's 19th Annual Muslim Studies Program.
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An Excerpt from “Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty” by Ali Altaf Mian #NDPBlog undpress.nd.edu/blog/2026/06…
