CFP – Affect, Temporality, and Political Theology
The journal Political Theology announces call for proposals for its Special Issue on Affect, Temporality, and Political theologySource
View ArticleA New Economic Playbook—The Economic Crisis Caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic...
Before the COVID pandemic, low-wage workers were already living in precarious circumstances because these jobs often lack benefits necessary to provide for health care and additional income necessary...
View ArticleWhose Face is on the Coin? The Split Economy and Political Theology
I have argued that economic theology should lead to political praxis and change. Economic theology has to open a space for emancipatory politics that resists the capitalist future.Source
View ArticleEconomics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality
A second expression of relationality is covenant. It is a bond between distinct parties where each gives for the flourishing of the other. Unlike contract, which protects interests, covenant protects...
View ArticleDefaced Coins in a Utopian Market
Rendering to God what was God’s meant offering our lives as living sacrifices of worship to God, as one would offer coins as tax and tribute to one’s sovereign. The human was theologically monetized—or...
View ArticleIndigenizing Philosophy through the Land: On the Nature of the Concept
Indigenizing philosophy through the land then is more than a culturally distinct way of philosophizing... it is a process of decolonization in the form of a revitalization of the relational modes of...
View ArticleCFP – Critical Theory for Political Theology, 2.0
Political Theology Network announces call for proposals on contemporary critical theory for political theology (Due by August 15, 2020)Source
View ArticleIndigenous Stewardship and the Death Rattle of White Supremacy
Native peoples in the Americas understand the universe as alive and sentient. All phenomena in it are understood to be a distinct expression of life force, or spirit. Since all persons – human and...
View ArticleThe Coloniality of Wilderness
I am interested in exploring and critiquing the discursive implications of designating this area as wilderness, given the history of this idea and its role in dispossessing Indigenous communities.Source
View Article“Enemies of Humanity”: Political Theology from the Pipelines
While not often recognized as political theology proper, environmental justice movements have for decades been sites of normative creativity. Sometimes overlooked as conventional rights-based...
View ArticleHealing the Land, Land Healing the Self
We appear isolated. Yet, over the years that we have brought our farm into our family, I have come to see ourselves as part of a worldwide imagined community of small farmers.Source
View ArticleBetween Ecology and Ideology: Climate Change and Forestation Sciences in...
When did the discourse on climate change begin? How was it related to colonialism? And in what way did it serve political objectives in Israel/Palestine throughout the 20th century?Source
View ArticleRestricting religious practice in the era of COVID-19: A de-westernised...
These restrictions must take into careful consideration the historicity of each religious tradition, the social influence of religious beliefs among its citizens, but also theological and exegetical...
View ArticleOthers Amidst Pandemic: Friends, enemies, and in between
Differentiating journalists as enemies is always alarming, but especially so during a public health crisis.Source
View ArticleViral Sovereignty
In the face of COVID-19, we do not have the capacity to breathe, much less decide.Source
View ArticleNiebuhrian Insights on Human Nature and Anxiety for A Time of Crisis
...seeing these responses through a Niebuhrian lens challenges me to acknowledge these actions for what they are—reactions to anxiety—and to confront what it is that I am actually afraid of and trying...
View ArticleThe Underside of Populism
Populism seems to have at least these advantages: it privileges practical reasoning over theoretical; it binds us to place; it recognizes modernity’s political gains; it does not posit reactionary...
View ArticleFrom A Liberationist Framework
My point is that in addition to being annoyingly Eurocentric, the discourse of political theology focuses more on administrators and theorists of the modern State than the victims of State.Source
View ArticlePolitical Theology, Volume 20, Issues 3 and 4 are now available
New issues from the twentieth year of our journal feature articles on Hobbes, poverty, Indonesia, and more, as well as a special issue on Christos Yannaras. Source
View ArticlePolitical Theology, Volume 20, Issues 1 and 2 are now available
New issues from the twentieth year of our journal feature articles from editorial board member Bonnie Honig, a special issue on Pragmatism and Political Theology, book reviews and more. Source
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