…their Lord. The practices of Christlikeness, such as forgiveness, hospitality, and generosity, are a form of prefigurative politics. Such a politics contests the plausibility structures that shape our social and…
…2019 Necropolitics. Durham: Duke University Press. Building on Mbembe’s influential article “Necropolitics,” this book examines the contemporary currents of necropolitics threating democracies and considers possibilities of co-belonging across the globe. …
…People accustomed to thinking of sacred scriptures as immaterial ‘texts’ can be unmindful or instinctively dismissive of the significance of sacred scriptures’ existence as material ‘books’. Yet any consideration of…
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…pragmatic mode of criticism, our goal in interpreting the politics of Scripture should not be so much programmatic—to prescribe a utopian plan of action, as experimental—to project life-giving possibilities we…
…is “strong families.” This is an issue upon which Scripture does have something to say. Scripture and the church (at least traditionally) have had a very specific view of marriage…
…for drawing inspiration from this passage, the text does offer readers the opportunity to think further about politics, and, in particular, the relationship between nostalgia and politics. The audience of…
…for their public politics. Importantly, it is the same impulse that is lifted up as the guidance for their piety as well. Piety and public emancipatory politics are thus intrinsically…
…Centre. He is the author of four books: Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2008), The Impossible…
…politics in the United States. Our work brings together Latina/o historians and religious studies scholars to examine histories of resistance, community formation, and immigration politics. Our roundtable focuses on the…
…U.S. society that we have now achieved a parallel situation in our domestic politics. Given the resolution, it may be tempting to write off the recent fight over the debt…
…Lilla is not writing in political theology, but he’s writing about theology and politics. In other words, political theology is part of a larger conversation or conversations about politics and…