Category: Justice
Though a commitment to justice animates many projects across the field of political theology, debate about what justice entails is at least as common as agreement. Classical concerns include the just distribution of goods, the equal access to public accommodations, and the fair protection from violent incursion. These are amplified and reconfigured in an age of rising economic inequality, mass incarceration, and the increased surveillance and discipline of bodies by corporate and government institutions.
Resources
Bibliography:
- Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God (2015)
- Mark Lewis Taylor, The Theological and the Political: On the Weight of the World (2011)
- Devin Singh, Divine Currency: The Theological Power of Money in the West (2018)
- Miguel De La Torre, Embracing Hopelessness (2017)
- Houria Bouteldja, Whites, Jews, and Us: Toward a Politics of Revolutionary Love (2017)
- Traci C. West, Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence (2019)
Relevant Journal Articles:
- Vincent Lloyd, “For What Are Whites to Hope?” Political Theology 17, no. 2 (2016): 168-181
- Linn Tonstad, “Debt Time is Straight Time,” Political Theology 17, no. 5 (2016): 434-448
- Monica Coleman, “Metaphysics, Metaphor and Multiplicity: A Postmodern Womanist Theology for Today’s Thorniest Religious Issues,” Political Theology 18, no. 4 (2017): 340-353
- Nindyo Sasongko, “Epistemic Ignorance and the Indonesian Killings of 1965-1966: Righting the Wrongs of the Past and the Role of Faith Community,” Political Theology 20, no. 3 (2019): 280-295
