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Shalon Park

Shalon Park is a Ph. D. Candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary in History & Ecumenics. As a historian committed to religious diversity, Park writes on issues that include the U.S. relations to Asia, language politics, religious fundamentalism, and globalization. Park is currently completing a dissertation on politics of sacred translations of East Asia.

Essays

Inglorious Homecoming
Pandemic and Migration

While the pandemic challenges our physical borders, it simultaneously bridges our differences, revealing that we are all migrants.

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?