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Political Theology Network Conference: CFP Extended!

An updated date and call for the PTN Conference stream “Naming the Anthropos in Anthropocene: A Political Theology of (Hu)Man” has been released. See the call here.

The CFP date has been extended for the following stream. Please submit your proposal by Tuesday May 16.

Naming the Anthropos in Anthropocene: A Political Theology of (Hu)Man
Facilitators: Mary Kate Holman ([email protected]), Jacques Linder ([email protected]), James Padilioni, Jr. ([email protected]).

This stream invites papers and participants who call attention to the Anthropocene as a crisis of political theology. The term Anthropocene names the epoch of human-induced climate change, but it does so in the name of Anthropos, as an all-encompassing term for the human species. We invite participants to consider the ways in which western Christian anthropologies of the human have provided, and may yet provide, legitimacy to extractive relations of settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and other systems of domination contributing to climate change, as well as how religious or spiritual movements are responding to or reinforcing such crises.

This stream was formerly limited to Catholic political theology but is now open for scholars working on political theologies of all traditions. 

See the rest of the calls for the Political Theology Network 2023 Conference here.

By Political Theology Network
The Political Theology Network aims to be a hub for exploring the intersection of religious and political ideas and practices. The Network is interdisciplinary, publicly engaged, and committed to building links between theologians, practitioners, and humanities scholars. Riding a wave of scholarly interest in political theology that itself follows the increasing visibility of religion in public life, the Network seeks to create the infrastructure that will allow this interest to flourish in the long term, supporting discussions of political theology in the classroom, in scholarly research, and in the public arena. By bringing scholars thinking with the term “political theology” from throughout the humanities together with scholars of religious traditions, we aim to thicken the appreciation of religion’s complexity among the former while sharpening the critical edge of the latter.

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