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Amanda Furiasse

Dr. Amanda Furiasse, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of the Digital Humanities in the Department of Humanities and Politics at Nova Southeastern University. She is also Co-Founder of the Religion, Art, and Technology Lab and a 2021 Public Scholarship Fellow at Sacred Writes. Her work converges around the study of Biotechnology, Public Health, and Indigenous Religions with a particular focus on African Indigenous Medicine.

Essays

Pussy Riot and the Church

This piece is from the Political Theology Network archives originally posted on August 23, 2012.

In Memoriam:                                                                      Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas and the Journey of Theology Toward the Future

The prominent Eastern Orthodox theologian Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas of Pergamon (Ecumenical Patriarchate) passed in Athens, on February 2, 2023.

Vulnerability

From Myanmar to Mariupol, from the streets of Memphis to the waves and winds of the Mediterranean Sea: resistance to violence takes many forms. So does political protest against precarity. At which point does the unavoidable vulnerability of the living condition come to expression as political agency? Can such precarious politics constitute or configure an alternative community?