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Essays

Subjectivity, Affect, and Exhaustion: The Political Theology of the Anthropocene

…placing the feeling of exhaustion as the central organizing principle hails a subject as experienced and expressed through divisions and differences

The Conversion of Hearts and the Sin of Racism

In Open Wide Our Hearts, the US Catholic bishops successfully describe how racism has historically been at the heart of American life, but the pastoral letter emphasizes personal conversion at the expense of structural transformation.

URGENCY: On Teaching in Crisis

What does thinking about affect mean for the politics of the religious studies classroom?

Do Not Fret—Psalm 37:1-11, 39-40

When we are tempted to anxiety in the face of the success of the wicked, the psalmist reorients us to the Lord.

Call for Proposals – Black Muslim Psychology Conference

The dialogue at the 2019 Black Muslim Psychology Conference will explore the impact of internalized oppression, notions of Black inferiority and assumptions of Islamic inauthenticity on identity, well-being and development of Black/African Muslims in the United States.

Blackface and White Comfort: Reading The Bishops’ Letter from Charlottesville

The US Catholic bishops’ pastoral letter Open Wide Our Hearts seeks to assuage white guilt rather than inspire a courageous stand against white supremacy.

PTN Dissertation Workshop Spotlight

The workshop provides grants to graduate students to attend the annual meeting and to participate in a half-day workshop, facilitated by senior scholars in the area of political theology.

Reading group: Frantz Fanon

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

The Paradox of a World Turned Upside Down—Luke 6:17-26

Luke makes it clear that it is God, and God alone, who can best align our lives and realities, to make us whole and healthy, and to give us a life worth living, a life most “human.”

The Face of the Sovereign

Why does Trump’s face matter? Why does Trump—a world-class performer and master of the craft of showmanship—practice shaping his face? What does his face do? Is Trump’s face part of his power?

Announcement – Drew University Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium

The colloquium hopes to recharge the practical theorizing of political theology at the gathering point of the crises of the present.