David Newheiser is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University. His research explores the role of religious traditions in debates over ethics, politics, and culture. He is the author of Hope in a Secular Age (Cambridge, 2019), the editor of The Varieties of Atheism (Chicago, 2022), and the co-editor of Art-Making as Spiritual Practice (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). His current book project considers the link between premodern miracle traditions and democratic imagination.
By disrupting pernicious claims to transcendence, atheist political theologies can help us redress suffering in particular places while keeping hope for radical transformation.