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Category: Pedagogy

The Political Theology Network is pleased to be a resource for teachers accessing the wide and unwieldy work of political theology. We feature syllabi, interviews, and book previews that fall under the ambit of our field

Resources

Bibliography:

  1. Catherine Keller, Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public (2018)
  2.  Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climactic Regime (2013)
  3.  Willis Jenkins, The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity (2013)
  4. Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright, A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future (2018)
  5. Vine Deloria, Jr., God is Red: A Native View of Religion (1973)

Relevant Journal Articles:

  • Nicholas Tampio, “Green Allies: Speculative Realism, Evangelical Christianity, and Political Pluralism,” Political Theology 17, no. 6 (2016): 525-539
  • Stefan Skrimshire, “Activism for End Times: Millenarian Belief in an Age of Climate Emergency,” Political Theology 20, no. 6 (2019): 518-536
  • Elettra Stimilli, “Apocalyptic Time,” Political Theology 21, no. 5 (2020): 391-392
 
Wittgenstein’s Ladder

…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.

Reading group – Michelle Alexander

Join a reading group sponsored by the Political Theology Network treating Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow.

The Fluidity of the Field

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.

Christian Interrogation

…Political Theology is the sedimented yet changing and multifarious ways in which Christianity divides itself and (which is to say also: from) the world.

Political Advocacy As A Humanist

This is a challenging question for me, as I am on the margins of political theology as a philosopher of religion and religious naturalist.

From A Liberationist Framework

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.

Political Theology (政治神學) A Postcolonial Approach

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.

Deconstructing the Canon

If one speaks of Political Theology as a “field” with its own “canon” one must surely be preparing to deconstruct it.

At the End of Liberal Theory

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.

Reading group – Frantz Fanon part II

Join a reading group sponsored by the Political Theology Network treating Fanon’s book Black Skin, White Masks.

Reading group: Frantz Fanon

Join a reading group sponsored by the Political Theology Network treating Fanon’s book Black Skin, White Masks.