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Category: Around the Network

The Political Theology Network is pleased to spread the word about conferences, calls for papers, and other announcements that fall within the wide ambit of political theology. If you’d like to share information about such an event, please contact us at [email protected].

The Stack: PTN’s Thematic Newsletters

PTN members now receive a monthly thematic reading list with the most recent conversations on their topics of choice.

How to Tell Time in an Emergency

We invited Mac Loftin, Hanna Reichel, and Phil Christman, authors of recent books speaking to our present moment of crisis, to reflect on the other two books — and the state of the world.

For the Church, Today

We invited Mac Loftin, Hanna Reichel, and Phil Christman, authors of recent books speaking to our present moment of crisis, to reflect on the other two books — and the state of the world.

The Spell of the Spectacular: On Jason Arday

In the space between celebration and condemnation, I ask: What happens to a person when the gaze of the public becomes so intense that the person can no longer be separated from what the public has made them represent?

The Experimental-Theological Mode

We invited Mac Loftin, Hanna Reichel, and Phil Christman, authors of recent books speaking to our present moment of crisis, to reflect on the other two books — and the state of the world.

New Methods, New Authorities, New Questions

Four scholars discuss their books published for the Transforming Political Theologies book series.

Political Theologies of Populism

Scholar, activist, and minister Colin Bossen discusses his new book with Michael McLaughlin, shining light on how inclusive visions of populism can draw on religion to deepen democracy

Remembering Jürgen Habermas (1929-2026)

We invited scholars of politics, philosophy, and theology to help us critically remember Habermas

There Are Always Elites

Hugo Drochon, author of Elites and Democracy, discusses social movements, political transformation, democratic hopes, and populism with Maor Levitin

African Political Theology and the Temptation of a Republic

For African Political Theology to be Christian, African, and praxis-oriented, its concern must be Africans; Africans in a universal and “Afropolitan” sense, that is, all of those Africans gifted with God’s image, and as such, God’s children. 

The Secularization of Hope Revisited

Hope can persist even when things seem impossible. This affinity with the miraculous, rupturing the force of prevailing law, gives hope its extra-rational power.