King-Ho Leung is Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Theology, Philosophy and the Arts at King's College London. His most recent book is Spiritual Life and Secular Thought: A Phenomenology(Oxford University Press, 2026).
By recovering the critical potential of religious practice, this symposium asks how political theology can support democratic institutions that are under threat.
Whenever someone tries to become an absolute sovereign, to make oneself “King” or “God”, such an act of sovereignization brings about the de-sovereignization or in-sovereignization of everyone else.
