"The Capture of Tenochtitlán" (Library of Congress)

Occupying Whiteness: A Reflection in 2020

By Jacqueline Hidalgo

Biblical scholars could yield profound insights into the deep and dangerous ways the Bible has been employed in the Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny. They might also have to reckon with the role of biblical scholarship in justifying imperialism.

The Politics of Scripture
Events

In the midst of a pandemic, can these Advent texts speak to our grief, both collective and personal, in political ways? These scriptures reveal that to grieve is to bear witness to our tears through righteous anger. They interrogate how our lives are structured along inequitable lines in this present moment and counter a simple return to how things were.

The Politics of Scripture

Around the Network

The PTN calls for proposals for the Winter Workshop Series on “The Politics of Death and Life”

Around the Network

The journal Political Theology publishes Volume 21, Issue 7

Around the Network

PTN is now accepting applications from PhD students for participating in a virtual Dissertation Workshop in January 2021

Around the Network

Symposia

[Tribal Sovereignty] by [Ian Sane] CC BY-NC 2.0

Law, Religion, and Paradoxes of Sovereignty

By Dana Lloyd

We are excited to bring Spencer Dew, Nicholas Shrubsole, and Méadhbh McIvor into conversation about the juridification of religion and the religification of law, about the network of relationships that are exposed to us when law and religion interact, about a shared skepticism toward religious identities, and more.

States of Exception

While the visual medium is thus dominated by whiteness, there exists simultaneously a whiteness that permeates textual and other worlds in biblical scholarship.

The Politics of Scripture

While COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus, the violence exacerbated in its wake is anything but new.

Body Politics

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