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The Politics of a Cast Image—Exodus 32:1-14 (J. Leavitt Pearl)

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered around Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make gods for us, who shall go…

The Politics of Being Replaced—Deuteronomy 34:1-12 (Timothy Simpson)

…to reflect, not just on leadership changes in the church, but also in society as well. In what follows, I have made a series of observations about the politics of…

“As the bridegroom was delayed, all of them became drowsy and slept. But at midnight there was a shout, ‘Look! Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ Then…

Liberal Amnesia: Review of “The Pretenses of Loyalty,” Pt. 1

…but ultimately avoids the latter in my judgment. The diagnosis is penetrating because it does not rest content with surveying the ongoing contemporary conflicts between politics and religion and the

Eugenics

…as a religiously authorized tool of governance naturally leads into biopolitical questions about identity coding in global “modernity.”  Eugenics and Biopolitics “Biopolitics” is often referenced as a backbone to understandings…

Recent Books in Religion and Politics

…get to see how her trailblazing life of proclamation was rooted in both the Scriptures and a powerful understanding of God’s love for all creation. Drink deep from the wisdom…

Reflections on The Racial Contract

…political scientists with roots in the Palestinian (Abu-Laban) and Jewish (Bakan) experiences. This is because our shared goal was to challenge the dominant framings of politics in the region permeating…

Rethinking Biopolitics: A Forum on Jasbir Puar’s The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability

…not the same as, “the right to kill.” As Puar further explains: “The right to maim exemplifies the most intensive practice of the biopolitics of debilitation, where maiming is a…

Catherine Malabou

…to say about the relationship between politics and theology? It is perhaps not to her major works that one must turn, but to a journal essay that introduces her as…

Iraq: Between Radicalization and Sectarianism (Dara Salam)

…view which depicts this politics in a comprehensive way and suggests that every single individual is immersed in this politics of hate and elimination of the other, as if it…

Diaspora

…a political subject who challenges the secular biases of Western feminism. Islam does not keep such women out of politics. On the contrary, it defines what counts as politics for…

Responding to the Desiring God

the framework offered by gay politics – a politics which is, as I have indicated above, racially, economically, and geographically marked. However, we need to appreciate that this teaching comes…