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Samuel Huard

Samuel is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. His thesis project focuses on Christian love, in its ideal, practical, and affective dimensions among the sisters of the Congregation of Notre-Dame in Quebec and Central America. His research interests include love, Catholicism, religious life, interculturality, theopolitics, and the Otherwise.

Symposia

Beyond Catholic Social Teaching? Resources for a Catholic Political Theology

The essays gathered here seek to critically assess the content and form of Catholic Social Teaching and envision what a catholic political theological engagement might look like beyond an emboldening by magisterial teachings, instead seeking movements, mystics, and people on the margins to exemplify what “catholic” could contribute to larger conversations on political theology. 

Lived Liturgy?

Liturgy constitutes a space and a time in which theopolitical power circulates across many scales, with all the solidarities, tensions, conflicts, interpretations, appropriations, and subversions that this entails. The papers gathered here explore the lived reality of liturgical practices as they are enacted in various contexts and by diverse people, both reproducing and stretching the boundaries of Catholicism.

Essays

Priesthood, Desires, and Theopolitics: A Conversation with Maya Mayblin

Priests, in order to become mayors, had to be viewed as lovers. So, the mayor-priest is a ‘lover’ in multiple senses. He has to embody God’s love. He has to perform paternal love. He has to signal to society that he is also, very likely – albeit in secret – to be a good sexual lover as well.