A Omer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 45081 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Omer |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Omer |
| ASSINATURA | OMER A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8994-825X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 52 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1978 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
From the Grave Upward
How does the Palestinian experience help conceptualize an umbrella understanding of genocides against indigenous peoples, the racialized others, spanning from Africa, Asia, to the Americas, and back to Palestine? Our Southernist political theology decenters sovereignty, beginning instead with those whose lives have been ontologically marginalized—those who are exposed to death, maiming, and dispossession not as exceptions but as constitutive of t…
The Eroding Hold of Zionism Among American Jews
UNSETTLED: AMERICAN JEWS AND THE MOVEMENT FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE. By Oren Kroll-Zeldin. New York: New York University Press, 2024. Pp. 280, Hardcover, $30.00. One among the many strengths of Oren Kroll-Zeldin’s Unsettled is his layered attention to social movement strategies and the journeys some American Jews underwent from their Zionist education to their ability to see Palestinian humanity, aspirations, and grievances vis-à-vis Jewish Israel…
The No-State Solution
Journal Article The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto, By Daniel Boyarin Get access The No-State Solution: A Jewish Manifesto By Daniel Boyarin Yale University Press, 2023. 180 pages. $30.00 (hardcover). Atalia Omer Atalia Omer The University of Notre Dame [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, lfae045, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae045 Pu…
Turning Palestine into a Terra Nullius
On the exit to the Offer Prison, near Ramallah, on the first day of the release of Palestinian political hostages and prisoners as a part of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel that pa
Touring Absences, Erasures, and Futures in the Unholy Land
This article examines a decolonial approach to teaching a course on Palestine/Israel involving experiential travel to the region. A decolonial syllabus studies absences, erasures, the multiple intersecting mechanisms and matrices of violence, and alternative futures as they inhabit subordinated pasts (histories) and the present in various activist spaces. We expand on other decolonial learning-in-context by underscoring the need for religious lit…
What is "Jewish" about the Jewish Left in Palestine/Israel
The Jewish Left in Palestine/Israel has its own legacies of Palestinian-Jewish activism. I will examine those legacies with a particular focus on the thirty years from 1993 to 2023, when the Jewish anti-occupation independent Left shifted from prioritizing Left anti-colonial secular internationalist ideologies as grounds for regional and international visions of equality from the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea into a hermeneutical introsp…
Teaching Religion and Upholding Academic Freedom
The editors of the JRE collected short essays from scholars of religion in response to a recent incident at Hamline University that made national headlines. Last fall, Hamline University administrators refused to extend a contract to an adjunct professor of art history after a Muslim student accused her of Islamophobia for showing a 14th‐century image of Mohammad in an online class. The event provoked intense conversations about issues of academi…
Religion and the harmony business
Not a Prophet, A Mirror
Shaul Magid's Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (2021) has the potential to urge American and Israeli Jews to “own” Meir Kahane and hold him up as a mirror reflecting the toxic and tragic dimensions of modern Jewish history. Such a look in the mirror can only happen once Jews see Palestinian suffering as central to the building of the state of Israel and also how they are complicit and implicated in …
Religion and the Study of Peace
Religion can be good and bad. For too long, the field of religion and peace has repeated this argument, cogently articulated by R. Scott Appleby in his field shaping The Ambivalence of the Sacred. It is time to examine whether there are other arguments to be made. The field of religion and peace is multifaceted and has grown exponentially in recent decades, primarily by enhancing various sites of policy making to mobilize "good" religion more eff…
How Violence Shapes Religion
There are many valuable aspects contained in this book. These include some detailed chronologies of violence associated in one way or another with religion in the two contexts of postcolonial Egypt and Nigeria. Meral occasionally provides firsthand insights based on field notes from interviews and valuable information synthesized from others’ historical and ethnographic research. The accounts certainly contribute to enriching the learning of thos…
Prophets versus Religiocrats
If the enduring takeaway from R. Scoot Appleby’s important book Ambivalence of the Sacred is that religion can be good and bad, it is unfortunately a diminished lesson. This binary misses the more robust potential of Appleby’s legacy, which encompasses peace studies, policy, the global engagement with religion, and development theory. The bureaucratization of religion and the emergence of a sphere of “religiocrats” point to a failure to appreciat…
Decolonizing religion and the practice of peace
Based on extensive field work focused on interreligious peacebuilding practices in Kenya and the Philippines, this article argues that decolonial accounts of peacebuilding, in line with decolonial interventions in the study of religion, remain captive to the task of epistemological undoing and thus insufficiently relevant to the precarious lives of many invisibalized people in the global South. The question is whether decolonial thinking in the s…
Friends on the Margins
In this essay, I examine Richard Miller’s exposition of political solidarity as one of the key contributions of his multifaceted argument in Friends and Other Strangers to the study of religion, ethics, and culture. Miller’s focus on culture broadens the landscape of ethical analysis in ways that illuminate how culture and cultural productions mediate and construct norms and virtues, and the complex relations between self and society. I challenge…
Religion and Nationalism
This essay examines the relations between religion and nationalism by highlighting the existing scholarly approaches as well as the ways in which they might be further expanded into deeper engagements with the legacies of colonialism and race. The argument is that cross‐fertilizing the religion and nationalist literature with critical race theories and the study of coloniality will provide explanatory frames and analytic tools to interpret the wa…
When ‘good religion’ is good
The article interrogates the assumptions and arguments proposed by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd in Beyond Religious Freedom and her contribution in the present issue of the JRPP. Hurd destabilizes and historicizes the universal claims of the discourse of religious freedom, rendering it an instrument of domination and manipulation. The article critiques this approach for its power reductionism toward religion as a category. Engaging Hurd’s heuristic for…
Hitmazrehutor Becoming of the East
Through developing of the concept of hitmazrehut, the article highlights avenues for decolonializing and de-orientalizing sociopolitical theory and practice in Israel/Palestine. Hitmazrehut (literally 'becoming of the East') is understood as the transformation of relations between space, identity, and narrative through an intersectionality framework of social movement activism and intellectual counter-discourse. Exposing the intersections among s…
PeaceTech
This collection of articles contributes to the growing body of research on how technology is affecting peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, and research methodologies in the field. Assumptions about the use of technology for peace are interrogated, such as the purported deepening of inclusivity and widening of participation that technology provides to peacebuilders and communities. It frames the discussion from a peace-focused perspective, …
The Origins of American Religious Nationalism
The Origins of American Religious Nationalism." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31(3), pp. 419–420
Religious Difference in a Secular Age
Saba Mahmood's Religious Difference in a Secular Age examines how the institution of the modern secular liberal nation-state has impacted and transformed the regulation of religious difference in Egypt. Unlike the mythology of the modern liberal nation-state as a framework that enables the resolution of conflict based on religious identification, the discourse of state secularity undergirds and at times even intensifies interreligious conflict. M…
Ritual, Religion, and Peacebuilding
This chapter describes the role of religious ritual in the process of peacebuilding. It looks at the role of ritual in traditional religions and then examines how specific religious leaders use rituals and even develop new ones in order to foster reconciliation or transformation to support peace. Peacebuilding requires both ritual and rational approaches. Drawing on a wide set of interdisciplinary research on ritual, the chapter identifies distin…
The New Name for Peace? Religion and Development as Partners in Strategic Peacebuilding
This chapter compares the fields of development and peacebuilding, with an eye to exploring affinities as well as areas of resistance to collaboration. It identifies the following points of convergence: 1) a focus on the local community; 2) an emerging consensus regarding the “rules of engagement”; and 3) a growing recognition that the criteria for “authentic” human development must be articulated on a case-by-case basis. Religious actors and ins…
The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Extending that inquiry beyond its traditional parameters, the volume explores the legacies of colonialism, missionary activism, secularism, orientalism, and liberalism. While featuring case studies from diverse contexts and traditions, the volume is organized thematically, beginning with a mapping of scholarship on religion, …
The Cry of the Forgotten Stones
Based on extensive archival work, this essay assesses the contribution of a Palestinian liberation theology ( PLT ) to a comprehensive view of peacebuilding that involves not only liberation from oppressive occupation but also a holistic vision and strategy for attaining just societal structures. Emerging out of the victim's viewpoint, a PLT is consistent with a multiperspectival approach to justice. It articulates a call for a holistic transform…
Nationalism and the Comparative Study of Religious Ethics Future Trajectories
David Little's work on ethnoreligious nationalism and religion, human rights, and the practice of religious peace-building offers both an important corrective and a conceptual foundation for further research in comparative religious ethics and an effective contribution to the sociological and cultural study of religion, conflict, and peace. Examining the two cases of Jewish Israeli settlers and Jewish American Palestine solidarity activists, the …
Modernists Despite Themselves
Journal Article Modernists Despite Themselves: The Phenomenology of the Secular and the Limits of Critique as an Instrument of Change Get access Atalia Omer Atalia Omer * *Atalia Omer, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, 100 Hesburgh Center for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5677, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. I wish to thank Jason A. Springs, David Little, the two anonymous reviewers …
Can a Critic Be a Caretaker too? Religion, Conflict, and Conflict Transformation
Journal Article Can a Critic Be a Caretaker too? Religion, Conflict, and Conflict Transformation Get access Atalia Omer Atalia Omer * *Atalia Omer, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, 100 Hesburgh Center, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 79, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 459…
It's Nothing Personal’
When ‘good religion’ is good
The article interrogates the assumptions and arguments proposed by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd in Beyond Religious Freedom and her contribution in the present issue of the JRPP. Hurd destabilizes and historicizes the universal claims of the discourse of religious freedom, rendering it an instrument of domination and manipulation. The article critiques this approach for its power reductionism toward religion as a category. Engaging Hurd’s heuristic for…
Hitmazrehutor Becoming of the East
Through developing of the concept of hitmazrehut, the article highlights avenues for decolonializing and de-orientalizing sociopolitical theory and practice in Israel/Palestine. Hitmazrehut (literally 'becoming of the East') is understood as the transformation of relations between space, identity, and narrative through an intersectionality framework of social movement activism and intellectual counter-discourse. Exposing the intersections among s…
PeaceTech
This collection of articles contributes to the growing body of research on how technology is affecting peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, and research methodologies in the field. Assumptions about the use of technology for peace are interrogated, such as the purported deepening of inclusivity and widening of participation that technology provides to peacebuilders and communities. It frames the discussion from a peace-focused perspective, …
Prophets versus Religiocrats
If the enduring takeaway from R. Scoot Appleby’s important book Ambivalence of the Sacred is that religion can be good and bad, it is unfortunately a diminished lesson. This binary misses the more robust potential of Appleby’s legacy, which encompasses peace studies, policy, the global engagement with religion, and development theory. The bureaucratization of religion and the emergence of a sphere of “religiocrats” point to a failure to appreciat…
Decolonizing religion and the practice of peace
Based on extensive field work focused on interreligious peacebuilding practices in Kenya and the Philippines, this article argues that decolonial accounts of peacebuilding, in line with decolonial interventions in the study of religion, remain captive to the task of epistemological undoing and thus insufficiently relevant to the precarious lives of many invisibalized people in the global South. The question is whether decolonial thinking in the s…
Religion versus Peace
The article argues that in contexts of ethno‐national conflicts, questions of peace and justice may entail negotiations not only over resources, territory and power but also over identity, symbols and memory. In fact, it is suggested that the latter set of negotiations may present the most vital nexus and even precondition for engaging in a sustainable and substantive process of peace‐building. It is here that subaltern narratives and religious s…
Turning Palestine into a Terra Nullius
On the exit to the Offer Prison, near Ramallah, on the first day of the release of Palestinian political hostages and prisoners as a part of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel that pa
What is "Jewish" about the Jewish Left in Palestine/Israel
The Jewish Left in Palestine/Israel has its own legacies of Palestinian-Jewish activism. I will examine those legacies with a particular focus on the thirty years from 1993 to 2023, when the Jewish anti-occupation independent Left shifted from prioritizing Left anti-colonial secular internationalist ideologies as grounds for regional and international visions of equality from the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea into a hermeneutical introsp…
Religion and the Study of Peace
Religion can be good and bad. For too long, the field of religion and peace has repeated this argument, cogently articulated by R. Scott Appleby in his field shaping The Ambivalence of the Sacred. It is time to examine whether there are other arguments to be made. The field of religion and peace is multifaceted and has grown exponentially in recent decades, primarily by enhancing various sites of policy making to mobilize "good" religion more eff…
Religious Difference in a Secular Age
Saba Mahmood's Religious Difference in a Secular Age examines how the institution of the modern secular liberal nation-state has impacted and transformed the regulation of religious difference in Egypt. Unlike the mythology of the modern liberal nation-state as a framework that enables the resolution of conflict based on religious identification, the discourse of state secularity undergirds and at times even intensifies interreligious conflict. M…
In the Critic vs. Caretaker Dichotomy A Magic Dwells
This essay rejoins Merinda Simmons’s protection of Russell McCutcheon’s critic vs. caretaker dichotomy in her response to my “Can a Critic be a Caretaker Too? Religion, Conflict and Conflict Transformation” (JAAR 2011). While Simmons aims to preserve McCutcheon’s binary as a purportedly benignly unavoidable opposition, I expose the perils of epistemic anti-realism at the heart of that dichotomy, as well as the fetishizing of discourse analysis an…
The Hermeneutics of Citizenship as a Peacebuilding Process
The hermeneutics of citizenship entails not only recognition of religion as a potential resource for reinterpreting sacred warrants for violent engagement or as a motivating force propelling certain individuals to act toward attaining the nonviolent transformation of conflicts and post-conflict healing. But also this approach stresses the importance of incorporating post-colonial theoretical tools and subaltern voices to the analysis and practice…
A study of some genetic characteristics of the population of the Sudan
300 random blood samples collected from residents of Khartoum, Sudan, were analysed for 5 blood group systems, 4 serum proteins, 9 red cell enzymes, abnormal haemoglobins and beta-thalassaemia. The results suggest varying degrees of admixture of the local tribes by migration from the surrounding regions. Two samples showed a probable new variant of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (? GdB Khartoum) with normal red cell activity. In spite of the p…
Grandfather Vis-Á-Vis Collaterals in the Islamic Law of Inheritance
Religion versus Peace
The article argues that in contexts of ethno‐national conflicts, questions of peace and justice may entail negotiations not only over resources, territory and power but also over identity, symbols and memory. In fact, it is suggested that the latter set of negotiations may present the most vital nexus and even precondition for engaging in a sustainable and substantive process of peace‐building. It is here that subaltern narratives and religious s…
The Arab Jews
It's Nothing Personal’
The Hermeneutics of Citizenship as a Peacebuilding Process
The hermeneutics of citizenship entails not only recognition of religion as a potential resource for reinterpreting sacred warrants for violent engagement or as a motivating force propelling certain individuals to act toward attaining the nonviolent transformation of conflicts and post-conflict healing. But also this approach stresses the importance of incorporating post-colonial theoretical tools and subaltern voices to the analysis and practice…
Can a Critic Be a Caretaker too? Religion, Conflict, and Conflict Transformation
Journal Article Can a Critic Be a Caretaker too? Religion, Conflict, and Conflict Transformation Get access Atalia Omer Atalia Omer * *Atalia Omer, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, 100 Hesburgh Center, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA. Email: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 79, Issue 2, June 2011, Pages 459…
When Peace Is Not Enough
Religious Nationalism
This book tackles the assumptions behind common understandings of religious nationalism, exploring the complex connections between religion, nationalism, conflict, and conflict transformation. Religious Nationalism: A Reference Handbook challenges dominant scholarly works on religious nationalism by identifying the preconceptions that skew analysis of the phenomenon dubbed “religious nationalism.” The book utilizes a multidisciplinary approach th…
In the Critic vs. Caretaker Dichotomy A Magic Dwells
This essay rejoins Merinda Simmons’s protection of Russell McCutcheon’s critic vs. caretaker dichotomy in her response to my “Can a Critic be a Caretaker Too? Religion, Conflict and Conflict Transformation” (JAAR 2011). While Simmons aims to preserve McCutcheon’s binary as a purportedly benignly unavoidable opposition, I expose the perils of epistemic anti-realism at the heart of that dichotomy, as well as the fetishizing of discourse analysis an…
Ilan Peleg and Dov Waxman, Israel's Palestinians
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAtalia OmerAtalia Omer is an Assistant Professor of Religion, Conflict, and Peace Studies through the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Department of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for the Study of Religion and Society. E-mail: [email protected]
Bridges across an Impossible Divide
A rabbi and a professor of conflict resolution, Marc Gopin's Bridges presents to the reader what he refers to as the “raw material” of peacemaking through a lengthy reproduction of transcripts based on interviews with peacemakers in the Middle East, and especially in the context of Israel/Palestine. What threads all the peacemakers together are their respective relationships with Gopin and how their sense of vocation radically changed as a result…
Ritual, Religion, and Peacebuilding
This chapter describes the role of religious ritual in the process of peacebuilding. It looks at the role of ritual in traditional religions and then examines how specific religious leaders use rituals and even develop new ones in order to foster reconciliation or transformation to support peace. Peacebuilding requires both ritual and rational approaches. Drawing on a wide set of interdisciplinary research on ritual, the chapter identifies distin…
The New Name for Peace? Religion and Development as Partners in Strategic Peacebuilding
This chapter compares the fields of development and peacebuilding, with an eye to exploring affinities as well as areas of resistance to collaboration. It identifies the following points of convergence: 1) a focus on the local community; 2) an emerging consensus regarding the “rules of engagement”; and 3) a growing recognition that the criteria for “authentic” human development must be articulated on a case-by-case basis. Religious actors and ins…
The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding. Extending that inquiry beyond its traditional parameters, the volume explores the legacies of colonialism, missionary activism, secularism, orientalism, and liberalism. While featuring case studies from diverse contexts and traditions, the volume is organized thematically, beginning with a mapping of scholarship on religion, …
The Cry of the Forgotten Stones
Based on extensive archival work, this essay assesses the contribution of a Palestinian liberation theology ( PLT ) to a comprehensive view of peacebuilding that involves not only liberation from oppressive occupation but also a holistic vision and strategy for attaining just societal structures. Emerging out of the victim's viewpoint, a PLT is consistent with a multiperspectival approach to justice. It articulates a call for a holistic transform…
Nationalism and the Comparative Study of Religious Ethics Future Trajectories
David Little's work on ethnoreligious nationalism and religion, human rights, and the practice of religious peace-building offers both an important corrective and a conceptual foundation for further research in comparative religious ethics and an effective contribution to the sociological and cultural study of religion, conflict, and peace. Examining the two cases of Jewish Israeli settlers and Jewish American Palestine solidarity activists, the …
Modernists Despite Themselves
Journal Article Modernists Despite Themselves: The Phenomenology of the Secular and the Limits of Critique as an Instrument of Change Get access Atalia Omer Atalia Omer * *Atalia Omer, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, 100 Hesburgh Center for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-5677, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. I wish to thank Jason A. Springs, David Little, the two anonymous reviewers …
PeaceTech
This collection of articles contributes to the growing body of research on how technology is affecting peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, and research methodologies in the field. Assumptions about the use of technology for peace are interrogated, such as the purported deepening of inclusivity and widening of participation that technology provides to peacebuilders and communities. It frames the discussion from a peace-focused perspective, …
The Origins of American Religious Nationalism
The Origins of American Religious Nationalism." Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31(3), pp. 419–420
Religious Difference in a Secular Age
Saba Mahmood's Religious Difference in a Secular Age examines how the institution of the modern secular liberal nation-state has impacted and transformed the regulation of religious difference in Egypt. Unlike the mythology of the modern liberal nation-state as a framework that enables the resolution of conflict based on religious identification, the discourse of state secularity undergirds and at times even intensifies interreligious conflict. M…
Hitmazrehutor Becoming of the East
Through developing of the concept of hitmazrehut, the article highlights avenues for decolonializing and de-orientalizing sociopolitical theory and practice in Israel/Palestine. Hitmazrehut (literally 'becoming of the East') is understood as the transformation of relations between space, identity, and narrative through an intersectionality framework of social movement activism and intellectual counter-discourse. Exposing the intersections among s…
Religion and Nationalism
This essay examines the relations between religion and nationalism by highlighting the existing scholarly approaches as well as the ways in which they might be further expanded into deeper engagements with the legacies of colonialism and race. The argument is that cross‐fertilizing the religion and nationalist literature with critical race theories and the study of coloniality will provide explanatory frames and analytic tools to interpret the wa…
When ‘good religion’ is good
The article interrogates the assumptions and arguments proposed by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd in Beyond Religious Freedom and her contribution in the present issue of the JRPP. Hurd destabilizes and historicizes the universal claims of the discourse of religious freedom, rendering it an instrument of domination and manipulation. The article critiques this approach for its power reductionism toward religion as a category. Engaging Hurd’s heuristic for…
Friends on the Margins
In this essay, I examine Richard Miller’s exposition of political solidarity as one of the key contributions of his multifaceted argument in Friends and Other Strangers to the study of religion, ethics, and culture. Miller’s focus on culture broadens the landscape of ethical analysis in ways that illuminate how culture and cultural productions mediate and construct norms and virtues, and the complex relations between self and society. I challenge…
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