…of the field, birds of the air, fish of the sea, and sea creatures, all of which the Lord has given humans dominion over. This causes the psalmist to exclaim,…
…capital – or, in Marxian terms, ‘living’ labor and ‘dead’ labor,” that is, to the workers currently engaged in production and those who previously produced the machines now being used by…
…work, political and cultural anthropology, they have invited their colleagues to consider the materiality of the ineffable: the dead, the excess, the more-than-human, the negative. In political theology, or more…
…them. 5The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, ‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is…
…in motion—what Jennifer Scheper Hughes calls an ecclesia ex mortuis, a Church out of the dead. In fulfilling its destiny as a universal religion through the evangelization of the Crown’s…
…the Dead (125); both books are funerary texts that guide the bereaved, the dying, and the dead through practices of death and rebirth. Additionally, in an anonymous interview included in…
…ongoing effort to experiment with conference structure and format, we will accept proposals in two stages: proposals for seminar streams (deadline: March 1, 2023) and proposals for individual papers to…
…their “native son” Adolf Bartels had gone too far. Bartels, dead since 1945, had written novels rejoicing in the blood-and-soil mysteries of Dithmarschen as well as a mass of dreadful…
…melancholic—one that, with drink in hand, gives accounts of the dead that form us while acknowledging the ultimate unknowability that distends all accounts of those dead within us. [1] Let…
…a romantic task. The living wounds are ugly and become uglier with time, from generation to generation, filled with puss and emanating the stench of death. The dead need to…
…a beauty, a girl with no heart. “Dead” is the first of these appellations. When we encounter Sophie in the first chapter, she is lying in a room in front…
…was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found!’ And they began to celebrate.25 “Now his elder son was in the field; and when he came and…