…I see my list on political theology functioning like Wittgenstein’s ladder metaphor in his Tractatus. Once graduate students read and grasp these important texts, they should “throw away the ladder”, so to speak, and deconstruct all they have learned about political theology to illuminate contemporary problems on their own. Once they reach the top, they can throw away the ladder.
Join a reading group sponsored by the Political Theology Network treating Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow.
Even while the concept of canon has been thoroughly critiqued and deconstructed, implicit canons remain and it may be best to acknowledge their presence rather than seek to repress them.
…Political Theology is the sedimented yet changing and multifarious ways in which Christianity divides itself and (which is to say also: from) the world.
This is a challenging question for me, as I am on the margins of political theology as a philosopher of religion and religious naturalist.
My point is that in addition to being annoyingly Eurocentric, the discourse of political theology focuses more on administrators and theorists of the modern State than the victims of State.
The field has often shown a Eurocentric bias…As such, the field has left out important reflections on political theology during the anticolonial and postcolonial struggles in the Global South.
If one speaks of Political Theology as a “field” with its own “canon” one must surely be preparing to deconstruct it.
The texts I have identified as “need to become ‘essential’ texts” function in this spirit…Each addresses questions of community-creation outside of liberal norms and modes of power.
Join a reading group sponsored by the Political Theology Network treating Fanon’s book Black Skin, White Masks.
Join a reading group sponsored by the Political Theology Network treating Fanon’s book Black Skin, White Masks.
