Political Theology And “Religiography”– On Shifting Liminalities (Roger Green)
Stephen S. Bush’s Visions of Religion: Experience, Meaning, and Power (2014) offers a discourse analysis on twentieth century developments in religious studies. While no theory is perfect, Bush’s...
View ArticleTrading Scalpels For Guillotines – A Reader’s Response To Robin Lovin On...
I read with interest two new articles on Reinhold Niebuhr that came out over the Thanksgiving holiday. They were a joint response by Scott Paeth and Daniel A. Morris to Robin Lovin’s recent article on...
View ArticleCurrent Events Commentators Wanted (Announcement)
Political Theology Today is actively seeking bloggers and commentators to write monthly, bi-monthly, or occasional opinion, or analytical, pieces on current events. Thoughtful and critical essays that...
View ArticleForget Schmitt! Political Theology Must Follow Agamben’s “Double Paradigm” of...
The following is the guest editorial for the current issue of the print journal Political Theology (Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2018). It was the German juridical theorist and philosopher Carl...
View ArticleOne-on-Ones: Conversations at the Intersections of Religion and Politics
An introduction and a call for submissions Source
View ArticleConference – Political Theology: Promise and Prospects
The Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School is pleased to announce that it will hold a conference on political theology from Wednesday November 7 through Friday November 9,...
View ArticleConference – The 2019 Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Conference
The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute, in collaboration with Deutsches Haus at New York University, is pleased to host the 2019 Telos Conference, "Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the...
View ArticleCall for Papers – Religions: “Political Theology and Pluralism”
Religions, a peer-reviewed, open access journal of theology, invites scholars to submit papers for its special issue, "Political Theology and Pluralism." 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
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 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 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 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 ArticleViral Sovereignty
In the face of COVID-19, we do not have the capacity to breathe, much less decide.Source
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 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 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 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 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 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
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