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How to Transform Political Theology

From Colombia to South Africa, from a decolonial stance to trauma theory, these scholars have offered polysemous approaches to the political as well as the theological.

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Political Theology at AAR/SBL 2025

We present some AAR/SBL Annual Meeting 2025 sessions sponsored by the PTN-afilliated Political Theology Program Unit.

By Political Theology Network
I Should Be Glad of Another Death

The joy of Christmas is always mixed up with the grief of the world’s suffering. One need only look today at the very town the magi came to visit.

By Andrew Clark-Howard

Around the Network

How to Transform Political Theology

From Colombia to South Africa, from a decolonial stance to trauma theory, these scholars have offered polysemous approaches to the political as well as the theological.

By Announcements
Political Theology at AAR/SBL 2025

We present some AAR/SBL Annual Meeting 2025 sessions sponsored by the PTN-afilliated Political Theology Program Unit.

By Political Theology Network
2025 PTN Conference Schedule

The preliminary schedule for our 2025 conference is now available!

By Lucia Hulsether

Symposia

chairs 3 by Jim Forest CC BY-NC 2.0
Catholic Re-Visions

Lived Liturgy?

Liturgy constitutes a space and a time in which theopolitical power circulates across many scales, with all the solidarities, tensions, conflicts, interpretations, appropriations, and subversions that this entails. The papers gathered here explore the lived reality of liturgical practices as they are enacted in various contexts and by diverse people, both reproducing and stretching the boundaries of Catholicism.

By Samuel Huard & Jacques Linder & James Padilioni, Jr. & Brent Otto
Symposium on Video Essays

While in recent years there has certainly been a shift towards more thoughtful and creative presentations of academic ideas within the various contexts of academic life, academics, mostly still exclusively trained in text-centered methods and deliveries, are still grappling with a contemporary culture dominated by images and digital technology that has profoundly disrupted the standard traditions of academic expression.

By David Kline
The Political Theology of Sylvia Wynter
By Vincent Lloyd

ASSEMBLY Podcast

S4 E9: Why Synthetic Religions? On Nature, Culture, and the Political Struggle to Slow Down Time
By Amanda Furiasse
S4 E8 – Religion after the Outrage
By Amanda Furiasse
S 4 E 7- Adaptive Reuse
By Sher Tareen