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In Memoriam Ranajit Guha—Anticolonial Political Theologian

Ranajit Guha had helped establish the Subaltern Studies school, and thus moulded the birth of postcolonial studies and non-Eurocentric global history. Guha was both a critical chronicler of the longue durée theological foundations of state and capital, as well as a bard of the ancient heritage of revolt against these structures of oppression.

By Milinda Banerjee
<strong>Reclaiming Negritude in African Political Theology</strong>

In his book Senghor’s Eucharist, introduced here, David Tonghou Ngong focuses on Senghor’s poetry collection called Black Hosts as a starting point for understanding his political theology. He argues that Black Hosts is a Eucharistic theology that calls for the reclamation of the Eucharist for the remaking of the world.

By David Tonghou Ngong
Living the Dream

Pentecost isn’t simply about the dreams of old men or the prophesies of children; though, these, certainly, are a part. Pentecost is about living the dream.

Inspiration—being filled by the spirit, is not about dreaming dreams or seeing visions, it is about living them.

By Amy Lindeman Allen

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In Memoriam Ranajit Guha—Anticolonial Political Theologian

Ranajit Guha had helped establish the Subaltern Studies school, and thus moulded the birth of postcolonial studies and non-Eurocentric global history. Guha was both a critical chronicler of the longue durée theological foundations of state and capital, as well as a bard of the ancient heritage of revolt against these structures of oppression.

By Milinda Banerjee
<strong>Reclaiming Negritude in African Political Theology</strong>

In his book Senghor’s Eucharist, introduced here, David Tonghou Ngong focuses on Senghor’s poetry collection called Black Hosts as a starting point for understanding his political theology. He argues that Black Hosts is a Eucharistic theology that calls for the reclamation of the Eucharist for the remaking of the world.

By David Tonghou Ngong
Political Theology Network Conference: CFP Extended!

An updated date and call for the PTN Conference stream “Naming the Anthropos in Anthropocene: A Political Theology of (Hu)Man” has been released. See the call here.

By Political Theology Network

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The Brink

Queer and Trans Religion, Devoted to Berlant

This forum reflects on the intellectual legacy of the late affect theorist Lauren Berlant, who passed away in 2021, for queer and trans studies in religion. Berlant once claimed they had nothing to say about religion – but our contributors disagree.

By Erin Runions & David Seitz
The Premodern World and the Secular

But how subversive can a contemporary inquiry be if it remains a paradigmatically modern- and Euro-centric affair (as the critical literature on the secular has historically been). My suggestion is that if the secular is a temporal and spatial concept emanating from the modern West (as many would agree), its “shadows” will necessarily lie elsewhere.

By Rushain Abbasi
Catholicism Re-Visioned: Leaving the Church as an Authentically Catholic Act?

We contend that in this time of increasing disaffiliation, the stories of “the women who left” in the twentieth century offer valuable insights about familiar Catholic experiences for those who know the pain of disillusionment, who have yearned for holiness outside of the church, and who have sought to reclaim what is of value in the tradition that formed them.

By Mary Kate Holman

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