Recent Posts
- “Self-Portrait of an Enigma”
- Now they come for the speakers of “hate”*
- The U.S. at 250, Coloniality, and Political Zionism in Perspective
- Towards a Theory of Multispecies Production, Exchange, and Class Struggle
- Paradise Found: How War Gives Israel Purpose
- In Christ’s Name: Christian Zionism and the Liquidation of the Gaza Ghetto
- The Domestic Pain behind October 7
- Simone Weil’s Queer Form
- Tigers, Snakes and Trojan Horses: Human-Animal Entanglements
- Decentering History: Animals, Politics, and Religions
- Humanity beyond the human: Theorizing War with Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said
- Towards a Comparative Political Theology: Ancient Greek, Roman, and Medieval Chinese Perspectives
- Liberalism’s Death Has No Afterlife. Perhaps That’s a Good Thing.
- On Being a Weapon: Jewishness 431 days into a Genocide
- (How to Do) Political Theology Without Men?
Recent Symposia
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Symposium on Video Essays
While in recent years there has certainly been a shift towards more thoughtful and creative presentations of academic ideas within the various contexts of academic life, academics, mostly still exclusively trained in text-centered methods and deliveries, are still grappling with a contemporary culture dominated by images and digital technology that has profoundly disrupted the standard…
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Animal Studies and Political Theology
Under the multidisciplinary banner ‘Animal Studies’, we may decenter the ‘human’ in this history of capitalist agriculture, and instead attend to the political histories of insect agents. The resulting narrative is intriguingly subversive.
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Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses, by Niklaus Largier: A Discussion
Figures and figural arrangements–a row of houses, a car accident, a view along a street, a first touch of two hands–do not just communicate some feeling or meaning that can be known. They do not just create an atmosphere that can be felt and understood. Instead, figures produce effects and differential intensities that precede and
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New Theologies of Nature
This symposium brings together three thinkers on the ideas of nature, animals, God, and the relationship between all of them.
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A Liberation of the Table: Christian Reflections on Animals, Eating, and Food Systems
The authors of this symposium nvite the reader to consider the liberation of those at the table, those on the table, those servicing and serving the tables, those raising, tending and harvesting for tables, and those without access to any table at all.
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Religion, Rebellion, and Sovereignty: Malabar Rebellion and the Problem Space of Political Theology
The symposium initiates a conversation on the forms and practices of sovereignty in South Asia in the context of a peasant Muslim insurgency against British colonialism in 20th-century Malabar in South India.
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Religion, State, Sovereignty: Interventions and Conversations
The essays seek a genealogy of and reckoning with the place of religion in modern regimes of sovereignty, its pre-colonial histories and post-colonial legacies, as well as an accounting of the fissures that remain in its emplacement, out of which new life continues to grow.
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Queer and Trans Religion, Devoted to Berlant
This forum reflects on the intellectual legacy of the late affect theorist Lauren Berlant, who passed away in 2021, for queer and trans studies in religion. Berlant once claimed they had nothing to say about religion – but our contributors disagree.
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Partition and/as Political Theology: Art, Resistance, and Peacebuilding in India and Northern Ireland
The following is the first of a short series on partition and/as political theology, which will be published in the journal Political Theology in 2024.