Scott Appleby writes, "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 its bidding."
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In his post on the enthnocultural empathic turn, Branko Sekulić asks: "How do religious actors reinterpret belonging, responsibility, and suffering once the violence they helped to sustain—or failed to prevent—has passed?"
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As the US threatens to again attack Iran, Babak Rahimi writes on Habermas's death and on liberal democratic ideals: "Law no longer appeared as a rational normative force restraining power, but increasingly as the juridical expression of sovereign will."
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ENGAGING THE MADRASA is now available! These essays amplifies the richness of the #Islamic #Traditions while avoiding both conservative nostalgia or progressive amnesia. Congratulations to the contributors! #Modernity #Islam #Madrasa @cmnd.bsky.social
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_Engaging the Madrasa_ edited by Ebrahim Moosa and Joshua Lupo is now out. Amir Hussain writes, "This marvelous volume details the madrasa tradition....It is that rare collection, filled not only with erudition but also with hope.”
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In his response to CM's symposium on _Hope in a Secular Age_, @dnewheiser.bsky.social writes, "By sustaining affirmation while facing uncertainty, hope sustains social movements that resist authoritarianism with creativity and courage."
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Atalia Omer writes, "In contexts where people’s hopelessness is often also expressed in their hunger and marginalization, hope against despair means survival within, rather than transcendence of the...structures shaping their predicaments of insecurity."
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On _Hope in a Secular Age_, Joseph Winters writes, “It may be that a kind of giving up on certain prospects and objects of desire is precisely what is necessary to refuse the violent order of things (even though there is no escaping what is refused).”
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In this short video, CM Co-Director Ebrahim Moosa introduces his new volume, _Muslim Theological Encounters with Science_ for Cambridge University Press's Elements series.
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ENGAGING THE MADRASA delves into the #Intellectual and #Political challenges that the #Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe. #Madrasa #Islam #Theology @cmnd.bsky.social
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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...
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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...
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.
I wonder if it is precisely the cultivated desire to persist (in a certain manner) that forecloses the possibility of rupture, abolition, and dissolution.
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By sustaining affirmation while facing uncertainty, hope sustains social movements that resist authoritarianism with creativity and courage.
contendingmodernities.nd.edu
Engaging the Madrasa delves into the intellectual and political challenges that the Muslim scholarly community faces across the globe.The rapid developments ...
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...
