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The Politics of Scripturing—Matthew 5:21-37 (D. Mark Davis)

…God of the Scriptures. What I am positing is a distinction between the authorial God who speaks and acts, as witnessed in the Scriptures, and the writings of the Scriptures…

The Politics of the City and the Sea—Revelation 21:1-6 (Richard Davis)

…by human effort, even through politics. ‘Politics’ for Ellul centers on the state, so it is no surprise that he sees politics being relativized by the absolute freedom and initiative…

Saba Mahmood

…problems in the history of religion than as practices informing the limits of modern liberal politics. What follows here tracks three domains in which her scholarly work intervened—ethics, politics, and…

Whose Face is on the Coin? The Split Economy and Political Theology

politics. But today the state has turned against politics and its people. It now treats any disruption of the political order as anti-politics. Like finance the state is an immune…

Han Byung-Chul

…(itself an alternative to older models of sovereign power). But while Mbembe argues neocolonies are zones of exception sustained by a necropolitics of permanent warfare, Han’s psychopolitics analyzes the re-subjugation…

Teaching Political Theology, Part 3: Making Theology Political and Politics Theological (or Teaching Political Theology to Conservative and Liberal Students)

the next, further, crucial steps. Beyond convincing conservative Christians that politics is in the bible and beyond convincing liberal Christians that politics can be done in church we need pedagogies…

The Hindu Goddess in Indian Politics (Atreyee Sen)

…religion and politics remain enmeshed in India. Even though the democratic constitution of the nation-state has been modeled on western varieties of secularism, everyday politics is infused with religious iconographies….

Remembering Vattimo

…Hegel) can be read intertextually, and the discourses and practices of religion and politics. Religion and politics were intertwined in Vattimo’s life from an early age, but when he was…

Book Preview – Ancient Religions, Modern Politics (by Michael Cook)

…find large-scale parallels elsewhere. No political party of any consequence in Latin America construes its politics out of Catholicism, just as no Indian party construes its politics out of Hinduism….

The Politics of Unity, Division, and Discernment—Luke 12:49-56 (Richard Davis)

…somewhat temporary and superficial. Some argue that politics itself is about division in its very essence. As Carl Schmitt famously said, politics is about distinguishing between friend and enemy (The

PT 16.5 Guest Editorial: Laudato Si’: Rethinking Politics (Anna Rowlands)

“Climate scientists do not appreciate that their science represents a politics. They are surprised to be called lobbyists by climate denialists when they are simply reporting on climate models and…

Announcing New And Forthcoming Books In Political Theology

Politics (Columbia University Press) From the publisher: “William Desmond sees religion, art, philosophy, and politics as essential and distinctive modes of human practice, manifestations of an intimate universality that illuminates…