Preface
1. Connecting Modernities: A Global Update (Simone Maddanu and Hatem N. Akil)

Part I Modernity as We Know It
Narratives of Modernity across the Disciplines

2. Technology and the Texture of Modernity (Alessandro Mongili)
3. Math and Modernity: Critical Reflections (Lucio Cadeddu)
4. Stranded Modernity: Post-war Hiroshima as Discursive Battlefield (Daishiro Nomiya)
5. The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity: (Mis)Understanding of Secularity/Secularism in the Arab and Islamicate Worlds (Housamedden Darwish)
6. The Missing Body: Figurative Representations in Islamic Iconography (Hatem N. Akil)

Part II Modernity under Fire
Critiques, Challenges, and Revisions

7. Criticism of “Colonial Modernity” through Kurdish Decolonial Approaches (Engin Sustam)
8. Conflicting Modernities: Militarization and Islands (Aide Esu and Simone Maddanu)
9. Project Modernity: From Anti-colonialism to Decolonization (Shumaila Fatima and David Jacobson)

Part III In the Shadow of the Pandemic

10. Modernity and Decision-Making for Global Challenges (Elizabeth G. Dobbins)
11. Public Health Confronts Modernity in the Shadow of the Pandemic (Richard Cooper)
12. Human Identity and COVID-19: Space and Time in the Post-modern Era (Rachid Id Yassine and Beatriz Mesa)

Part IV Imagining New Global Frameworks
Democracy and Modernity-to-Come

13. Environmentalism: A Challenge to Modernity (Antimo Luigi Farro)
14. The Cognitive Immune System: The Mind’s Ability to Dispel Pathological Beliefs (Barry Mauer)
15. Representative Democracy as Kitsch, and Artificial Intelligence’s Promise of Emancipation (Marius C. Silaghi)
16. Subjectivation, Modernity, and Hypermodernity (Alain Touraine)
17. Toward a New Global? (Hatem N. Akil and Simone Maddanu)

Index