God and world politics: these two are scarcely found in a single sentence, would you not agree? To talk about religion and international relations is constant, books coming out right…
…including Review of Politics, The Historical Journal, Political Theory, Jewish Quarterly Review, Annual Review of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. She has been awarded fellowships from the School…
…God out of politics but that it fails to recognize the character of freedom upon which modern politics has rested. At stake in our political life has been not our…
From its inception in the 19th century, African American atheism has been motivated by the politics of race in the United States and has explicitly embraced political activity as a…
…women are objectified. I established the groundwork for this approach to strongman politics in Violence, Entitlement, and Politics. In that book, I addressed the problem of gender-based violence in two…
…do politics in a variety of ways, some meaningful and others harmful. Certainly politics throughout the ages has waxed and waned; empires have risen and fallen. What if you texturize…
…and Barth. The key developments of Christendom, modernity, and the secularization of politics will all be covered. Issues covered in the course will include the nature of politics, sovereignty, justice,…
…or theological vision can catalyze such an alternative theopolitics? In place of the exceptionalist, extractive and externalizing logic of the redeemer symbolic, we need to imagine a theopolitics of American…
…are no longer with us. Idols and their required sacrifices remain features of our daily lives, albeit in new forms, including in the realm of politics. Even without the benefit…
It is a foolish beginning for people desiring change to believe in a so-called “existing democratic order” that is ruled by the ethics of domination. Political theology relates the politics,…
…ecstasy of release from every political constraint, all under the “sign of freedom.” The historic emancipatory politics of anti-capitalism thus falls victim to its own passion to strip away the…
…those, like Carl Schmitt in The Concept of the Political, who see the heart of politics in this distinction between enemy and friend. For Schmitt, the state cannot live by…