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Sollicitude, Surrogacy, and the Sources of Selfhood

This was a riff on the familiarly Aristotelian concept of the monstrous birth, in which a child came out lacking resemblances to his mother and father (mainly his father)—a kind of monstrous rebirth, in which the work of semen and gestation was written over by the work of alien suckling.

By Josh Cohen
A Small Death, a New Beginning

Cara Rock-Singer examines what reproductive processes reveal about religious and political life and shows how Jewish tradition is transmitted and reinvented through the ongoing labor of reproduction.

By Cara Rock-Singer
The Justice of Becoming Inedible

Who are you: a tasty morsel or unpalatable fibre? Choose wisely, because the dinner bell is ringing.

By Christy Randazzo

Around the Network

A Small Death, a New Beginning

Cara Rock-Singer examines what reproductive processes reveal about religious and political life and shows how Jewish tradition is transmitted and reinvented through the ongoing labor of reproduction.

By Cara Rock-Singer
Caesar’s Economy or God’s?

The economy of Spirit, like God’s polity, is countercultural. The way out of the trap of living within the lie that the world is defined by boundaries shaped by tyranny and obedience to it, is to tell the truth that life demands freedom and creativity, valuing relationships over material things.

By Welling Hall
PTNCON27: Call for Seminar Streams

The Political Theology Network is hosting our sixth in-person conference, which will be held in Nashville, TN, from April 29 to May 2, 2027. Would you like to coordinate a thematic stream?

By Alex Dubilet & Lucia Hulsether

Symposia

The Brink

Attention, Excess, and Interdependence: Care and Political Theology

By Emma McDonald Kennedy & Méadhbh McIvor
Theological Negotiations: Pope Leo, President Trump, and Their Others

When authority is reduced to the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots,’ we also reduce the figures within these debates to mere political caricatures of one another, trapped in a cat fight from which there is no escape.

By Zaccary Haney
Reevaluating Charisma

As is the case with religion, progressive intellectuals tend to look on charisma with suspicion, relegating it to the realm of authoritarian and manipulative politics.

By Maor Levitin

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