To speak or not to speak of God is an important yet rather uncomfortable question that participants encounter during interreligious and interdisciplinary dialogue. Several Eastern religions, philosophers, and scientists claim God is either non–existent, absent, or “dead” in relation to the cosmos. Conversely, other faiths believe God’s absolute presence embraces everything. For Abrahamic traditions, God […]
Month: July 2019
Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 2 (Roger Green)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The initial installment can be found here. Although we must constantly remember that the fetish is the product of European imagination, the taking-up of the concept by postcolonial thinking also informs important ways to think about race and religion. The “middle finger” of the fetish has […]
Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 1 (Roger Green)
The following is the first of a two-part series. The second installment can be found here. The concept of fetishism has a special place within the long history of genocide against the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. In one way, pursuing the concept acts as a diversion from Indigenous peoples because it acts as a […]
Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness – Reflections From A Jew, Part 2 (Sarah Pessin)
Emphasized in a temporalized modality, and bringing together elements of our phenomenological and political reflections above, we may specifically unpack the hegemony of White Christianity as a blow against pastness: Where pastness signals the facts and facticity of a fettered social and historical situation (with parameters imposed from outside, a need to escape those parameters […]