…a distinctly political enactment of a ritual, the recitation of the Mourner’s Kaddish for Eric Garner, which is, of course, where The Politics of Ritual starts. In The Politics of…
…differentiate between two different concepts of the political – the politics of the state-form vs. the politics of the people – so too do we think it is possible to…
…matters in this new age of political liminality and creeping global chaos. Identity politics is nothing new. It is as old as the concept of “politics” itself. The ancient Greeks,…
…of experience and a source of knowledge. By looking to non-religious children, Strahn sidesteps the adults and institutions that populate formal politics to consider how children practice politics in their…
…many other reasons, children are essential to the formation of a healthy political vision. A Christian politics is a politics within which we attend to the child that Jesus has…
…the scriptures.” The scriptures are understood when one sees them through the lens of resurrection. This resurrection hermeneutic is a bit of a blow to those of us who are…
…aware of the inextricability of religion from culture and therefore from politics. These scholars paid particular attention to the intersections of religion, gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity with politics. And…
…defines Biblical Israel is a theocratic politics of recognition. Like all politics of recognition, there is the tendency to be exclusive when the implementation of the demands of the relationship…
…Possibilities (Farnham: Ashgate), Asian Theology on the Way: Christianity Culture and Context (London:SPCK as editor) and Foundations for Mission (Oxford: Regnum co-edited with Emma Wild-Wood). This is the first Politics…
…all Christians not only think about the political issues facing them theologically but imagine possibilities outside the existing political narrative. If we limit ourselves to talking about politics using the…
…confess the politics of patriarchy in the text, and invites us to a subversive reading of the narratives of the parables from invisible, decolonized, and underrepresented communities. The politics of…
…these broader vocabularies in order to enrich discussions of religion and politics. Like Schmitt, Agamben sees a close connection between Christian theology and European (and American) politics. However, Agamben claims…