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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4h

Puff piece.

Catholic Media Organizations to Publish Second Edition of Liturgy of the Hours

The prayers are set according to the Church calendar and are composed of Psalms, hymns and readings from Scripture.

www.ncregister.com

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 6h

Apparently Ascension *and* Word on Fire will be publishing the second edition of the Liturgy of the Hours. Does anyone know why the USCCB made this decision? Why are two firms publishing the LotH in different formats? Won’t that create serious continuity problems and raise formatting concerns?

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 6h

I think we crossed a critical threshold around 2016–2017, when widespread public discourse about “antifa” was taken seriously. The suggestion that someone is not opposed to fascism is very alarming. A real public sphere and fascism cannot coexist.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 10h

New on my blog: a discussion of "Diaspora and Transnationalism" (Bauböck & Faist). The post examines how the book redefines diaspora as identity and transnationalism as practice, offering a framework for studying mobility and citizenship across borders.

Between “Hot Identities” and “Cold Constellations”: On Bauböck and Faist’s “Diaspora and Transnationalism” — Keanu Heydari

Rainer Bauböck and Thomas Faist’s Diaspora and Transnationalism: Concepts, Theories and Methods advances a disciplined framework for studying cross-border social formations by redefining “diaspora” ...

www.keanuheydari.com

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 14h

“The Lord of heavenly forces, the God of Israel, proclaims: Don’t let the prophets and diviners in your midst mislead you. Don’t pay attention to your dreams. They are prophesying lies to you in my name. I didn’t send them, declares the Lord.” – Jeremiah 29:8–9 (CEB)

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Baudrillard Warned Us @baudrillardwarned.us · 1d

"No more subject, no more focal point, no more center or periphery: pure flexion or circular inflexion."
- Simulacra and Simulation

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

Stay with me, remain here with me; watch and pray, watch and pray.

TAIZÉ – Stay With Me

YouTube video by Warren Busuttil

youtu.be

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 1d

In Frédéric Gros’s recent work, I think the political ambition of shame may overestimate how far an “emotion” can galvanize collective transformation in contexts of entrenched structural power. That said, Gros has convinced me of the revolutionary power of shame.

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

The truth of Christian faith is evental. It happens where the crucified and risen Christ determines human existence. This means that Christianity must keep happening. It is the living act of God taking hold of the world in Christ, letting it determine one’s life again and again.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

Dream team: Bruce McCormack, Paul Dafydd Jones, David Congdon, Suzanne McDonald, Kait Dugan, Philip Ziegler, and Christophe Chalamet.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

As you know, I make only one (irrational and unjustifiable) exception to this rule, for Shia theology. They can be as spiritual as they want.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

💯💯💯

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

My atheist friends are always amused when I tell them that “I’m religious but absolutely not spiritual.”

Nonreligious Americans might not be as spiritual as we thought

(RNS) — Our research shows that nonreligious Americans report being significantly less spiritual than people who identify with established traditions such as Christianity, Judaism or Islam.

religionnews.com

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

“By tracing the presence and political activity of Iranian students in postwar Paris, the dissertation explores how the metropolis functioned as a contact zone in which the histories of empire and exile converged.”

Caught in the trap between Chakrabarty and Goebel! #amrevising

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

Trust in institutions often mirrors broader declines in interpersonal trust and social cohesion. If people believe others (including elites) are unreliable, they are less likely to trust institutions. Surveys show interpersonal trust in the U.S. has fallen over decades.

Americans’ Trust in One Another

Americans trust each other less than they did a few decades ago. We explore why this is, and why some are more trusting than others.

www.pewresearch.org

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, bon ?

EN DIRECT - Les Républicains annoncent qu’ils ne participeront pas au gouvernement Lecornu II

De nouveau sous la menace de censure après sa reconduction très critiquée, le plus si nouveau Premier ministre doit constituer, dans un délai ultra-court, son nouveau gouvernement afin de pouvoir prés...

www.liberation.fr

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

A right-wing Venezuelan politician and a U.S. nationalist converge around a shared anti-Chavista narrative marketed as freedom. The Nobel Peace Prize is not a politically neutral or nonpartisan award. You should look up the people who have refused it.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

This headline, however, functions as ideological theater by elevating a local political actor by linking her to a global populist who himself undermined democratic norms. It invites outrage or validation depending on one’s camp, rather than analysis.

Venezuelan Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado dedicates award to Trump for 'decisive support'

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado receives Nobel Peace Prize and dedicates it to both President Trump and the "suffering people of Venezuela."

www.foxnews.com

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

Maduro’s government dismantled democratic institutions, jailed opponents, and rules through military patronage. Yet U.S. sanctions have worsened hunger and migration. A coherent left position condemns state repression and foreign coercion alike, insisting on Venezuelan self-determination.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

Leo XIV’s Dilexi Te speaks from a posture of wounded love. The new pope inherits Francis’s tenderness but adds even more urgency: the Church must again see Christ in the poor or risk forgetting who it is. Leo’s frustration with complacency is evident throughout the document.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

“I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor.” – Pope Leo, “Dilexi Te,” 23

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

Ubi cáritas et amor, Deus ibi est.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 3d

For Osborne, "managerial humanism" treats transdisciplinarity as policy language that organizes knowledge for efficiency. It replaces reflection with coordination and ties the humanities to administrative goals that measure usefulness rather than deepen understanding.

Problematizing Disciplinarity, Transdisciplinary Problematics - Peter Osborne, 2015

This article situates current debates about transdisciplinarity within the deeper history of academic disciplinarity, in its difference from the notions of inte...

journals.sagepub.com

Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4d

Two great texts.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 4d

A Catechism of Divine Actuality is a Reformed confession for the present age. It describes God as living act, the event of love that gives being to all things. It invites faith to see grace unfolding in God, Christ, Spirit, Church, and New Creation.

Confessing the Event

A Catechism of Divine Actuality

keanuheydari.substack.com

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