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Religious Madness and the Logic of Contagion

…convinced him that he was “irrevocably condemned to everlasting perdition.” Despairing, the vine dresser reasoned that he and his family would be better off dead as martyrs, assured of salvation,…

Care

…obviously embodied forms as well. A person mourning a loved one is caring for them and their memory – indeed, classical Jewish sources mark caring for a dead body as…

Challenging the Great Physician: Mental Pathogens and Spiritual Contagion in Late-19th Century America

…seems inexplicable. But by attending to their forebears’ understanding of contagion, such defiance becomes clearer. Such discursive threats were seen and understood by nineteenth-century Americans as transmissible and potentially deadly….

The political eschatology of Les Misérables

…who were murdered/martyed by forces of the French state. We do not see those dead soldiers, and we do not see Javert. (Friends have reported to me that various stage…

Political Theology As “Liberative” Theology (Rubén Rosario Rodríguez)

…liberationists the goal is not a secular spirituality – some nameless, vague religious feeling – but rather a theology free from the “dead faith of the living” (111). Christian faith…

The Politics of Transfiguration—Matthew 17:1-9 (Fritz Wendt)

…no one about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.” Five-year-old John had been brought to our Pediatric ER because he was “acting…

Are Calls For “Sanctuaries” Well-Intentioned Masks For A Neoliberal Agenda? (Roger Green)

…2010 we heard this in another way from Angela Merkel, David Cameron, Nicolas Sarkozy, and later from other European leaders: multiculturalism is dead. This is an awareness of the postsecular…

Political Theology at the 2022 AAR/SBL Conference

…Methodist Theological School in Ohio Responding Margaret Kamitsuka, Oberlin College and Conservatory Ekklesia of the Dead: The Theopolitics of Churchstateness in the Americas Saturday, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Hyatt…

From Prison to Public Theology in Ethiopia, Part II

…Jesus himself said that it would be better to be drowned in the sea than to harm the vulnerable (Matthew 18:6-9; Mark 9:42-50; Luke 17:1-5), and Paul insisted that a…

Ghostly Presences and Hindutva 2.0: An Interview with Anustup Basu

…eviscerate the million forms of local jurisprudence and custom. In the so-called Hindu world for the first time, this imposition creates the ghostly presence of dead fathers with their very…

Remembering Jürgen Moltmann

…would be definitive for her — and, I’ve come to believe, was definitive for him in the final season of his life. After reading some of Moltmann’s work in a…

Call for Applications – Research Workshops on Religion and Economic Inequality

…furnished short-term residences in Princeton, NJ to enable them to work at Luce Hall daily, Monday to Thursday. The deadline for applications is December 1, 2018. Please visit the following…