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[Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/9780593493205/) ![Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 2 (Nirvikar Singh)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/02/peace_symposium_between_sikhs_muslims_of_pakistan.webp) ### [Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 2 (Nirvikar Singh)](/religioustheory/posts/sikhs-as-subalterns-voice-inequality-and-power-part-2-nirvikar-singh/) January 26, 2024 — By Nirvikar Singh The following is the second installment of a three part series. The first can be found here. 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The Westerners use the mother tongue to translate [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/from-holistic-to-in-between-theology-the-ethiopian-evangelical-church-mekane-yesus-part-3-rode-molla/) ![Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 2 (John Cuda)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/edward-howell-vltjdp8zy1c-unsplash.webp) ### [Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 2 (John Cuda)](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths-part-2-john-cuda/) October 12, 2021 — By John Cuda The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Symbolically, the idea of going beyond the edge of the ordinary world to [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths-part-2-john-cuda/) ![Let’s Get Real About Race – Two Very Timely Upcoming Online Seminars (Announcement)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/08/race.webp) ### [Let’s Get Real About Race – Two Very Timely Upcoming Online Seminars (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/lets-get-real-about-race-two-very-timely-upcoming-online-seminars-announcement/) August 23, 2021 — By editors It’s time to get real when we talk these days about race and racism. 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The first can be found here, the second here. Both before nomos and therefore its condition of enactment, the [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/antinomian-flesh-part-3-david-kline/) ![Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 2 (Melissa Conroy)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/10/jaques_lacan.webp) ### [Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 2 (Melissa Conroy)](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-2-melissa-conroy/) October 6, 2020 — By Melissa Conroy The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. 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That made Ethiopia the only black nation that defended its border in the era of [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/reframing-the-adwa-victory-as-a-decolonizing-praxis-discourse-around-colonization-in-the-ethiopian-context/) ![Review – A Stranger Thought For Stranger Times (Liam Burrell)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/laruelle.webp) ### [Review – A Stranger Thought For Stranger Times (Liam Burrell)](/religioustheory/posts/review-a-stranger-thought-for-stranger-times-liam-burrell/) April 6, 2017 — By Liam Burrell *Smith, Anthony Paul. Laruelle: A Stranger Thought. Cambridge: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 0745671233. Hardcover, paperback, e-book Hardcover, paperback, e-book. 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