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Enrique Dussel

…crítica (2007). Non-Eurocentric world history of politics, from the Neolithic to the Zapatistas.  Twenty Theses on Politics (2008) – translation of 20 tesis de política (2006). Summary of Vol. 2 of the Politics of Liberation (which remains…

New Directions in African Political Theologies

the state as a focus of scholarly interest in favor of studying the politics of smaller communities that show a more hopeful politics than repressive states harming their own people…

Squaring the Exceptional and the Normative? A Realist Response to Kahn’s Political Theology

…posted on Monday, Nov. 28 and Thursday, Dec. 1. This book is a timely intervention within current debates about the role of religion, politics, philosophy and the public square. I…

…which currently dominates national politics, has already infused into our society a privatized ethic of “responsible” and “socially aware” consumerism. It is only the outliers, the culturally backward, the rural…

Gender conflict over temple entry and the limits of legalizing identity politics in contemporary India

…a review petition for its reassessment. More importantly, it has also emerged as a central plank of electoral contestation in the fractious politics of Kerala today. Even as the ruling…

<strong>The Colonial Christian Kernel of African Anti-LGBT+ Politics and Queer Humanitarianism: Conversation with Kwame E. Otu</strong>

…colonial biases. We need to think about how coloniality informs the desire to participate in what I call the “politics of rescue.” Because the politics of rescue is a perpetuation…

Bread, Hunger, and Commensality: Food Symbols of Emancipation and Solidarity in the Theopolitical Imagination of Jesus in the Gospels

…annihilates bodies of abjection. Instead, the theopolitics of Jesus imagines a politics of attending to many experiences of hunger; a politics of the wellbeing and a more livable life for…

Weird John Brown: A Response to Cavanaugh, Day, Holifield, Murphy, and Ochs (by Ted Smith)

…cul-de-sac of guilt that is one more form of self-gratification. It should rather lead white Christians, as Day affirms, to a politics of penitence and repair. A politics of repair…

Book Review – Clayton Crockett, Deleuze Beyond Badiou

…work that crosses the domains of theology, philosophy, and politics through a reading of the relationship between Deleuze and Badiou. Crockett’s goal, however, is not primarily descriptive but constructive, in…

The Politics of Agency—Acts 16:16-34 (Amy Allen)

…Amidst the miraculous earthquake, the escape of our heroes, the baptism and conversion of the jailer, and indeed, even the persistent prophecies of the slave girl, we see politics of…

Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy

…religion and politics are intertwined, this framework considers religion and politics to be a single unit with complementary subunits. Hence, the four scenarios would be as follows: A conceptual framework…

The Politics and Paradoxes of Self-Preservation

…becomes a rogue state itself. For Jacques Derrida, post-9/11 rogue politics is not a unique moment of crisis for democracy in America, it is yet another moment in a long…