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Critical Theory for Political Theology 3.0

Colonizing One’s Own

The ongoing attempts to control both narrative and people after Renee Good’s killing are examples of what Paul Virilio describes as endo-colonization. It has very deep roots.

By Andrew Suderman
Negating the Common Good

On Democratic Disagreement as Ethical Formation

By Jenny Leith
Whom Shall I Fear?

This Third Sunday of Epiphany is a celebration of light breaking into darkness, but as I write, my friends and neighbors are reeling from the death of a legal observer—shot and killed by a federal agent blocks from my home.

By Welling Hall

Around the Network

Jan 22: African Political Theology Webinar + Resources
By Vincent Lloyd
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

Symposia

The Brink

Book Forum: The Politics of Not Speaking by Elad Lapidot

This forum reflects on Elad Lapidot’s The Politics of Not Speaking. In contrast to the common understanding of politics as a domain of speaking, this work reveals an alternative tradition where the spoken word fails, collapses, breaks (i.e., a politics of not speaking).

By Elad Lapidot
Critical Political Theology

By recovering the critical potential of religious practice, this symposium asks how political theology can support democratic institutions that are under threat.

By David Newheiser & King-Ho Leung & Jenny Leith
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

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