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Political Theology: A Response  (Part One: The Disciplinary Divide)

…a certain form of secular, political rhetoric? If the religious content of the categories has been stripped away, leaving only a more or less persuasive analogy between religion and politics,…

Political Theology and Islamic Studies Symposium: Religion of Critique: Out of the Sources of Islam

…mixed in with different amounts of politics,[iii] for that still conceives religion and politics as two separate concepts. Rather, it asserts that the categories of “religion” and “politics,” supposedly marking…

Christian Politics and the Erosion of International Trust (Daniel A. Morris)

…model of politics. He showed this sensibility in his responses to World War I and the creation of the League of Nations, which succeeded the conflict. The young Niebuhr happily…

Donald Trump, Demagogue

…white middle class “politics of victimization” and even earlier by Pat Buchanan in the 1990s. Yet while his supporters feel like victims, Trump also assures them that they would be…

A Revisionist Reading of the Midterm Elections, or the Unmentionable Contradictions of the New Knowledge Economy

…much vaunted progressivist politics that seemed to have finally taken solid root in American political soil with the 2008 election. At the same time, they view it as a victory…

After Orlando We Need To Think More Radically, More Deeply In Our Politics, And More Respectfully (Carl Raschke)

the toxicity of present day politics, and the countless ideological, soundproof echo chambers in which conveniently situate ourselves make it about as hard for us as it for an alcoholic…

AAR/SBL 2021 for PTN

…and Georges Bataille on the Body, Politics, and Religion” B. Yuki Schwartz, Claremont School of Theology, “Melancholic Sovereignty: Mourning and Resisting Pandemic-Fueled Anti-Asian Violence” Panashe Chigumadzi, Harvard University, “The Exodus…

Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption and the Contemporary Moment

…contrasts Rosenzweig’s “prophetic politics”—a politics framed by divine revelation—with Hannah Arendt’s rational inter-human analysis of political judgment. Resonating with worries about the Star’s political failings expressed in Martin Kavka’s contribution…

Call for Applications: Summer Institute in Religion and Global Politics

The John Cabot University Summer Institute for Religion and Global Politics (May 19 – June 20), co-funded by the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), offers graduate students a comprehensive…

Welcome to Catholic Re-Visions

…will highlight voices responding to questions like these, and more, on this blog in the months to come.  Too often, “politics” means elections: polls, parties, and politicians. Too often “politics”…

The Underside of Populism

…of the “people” in democratic politics. Bretherton’s reflections on economics and politics are worth readers’ careful consideration. I will leave it to them to plumb the depths of those chapters,…

Immanent Singularity

the affective animation with the planet requires an active relinquishing of hermeneutic desires, which in turn, I argue, could be a ground for a different politics. A politics of dis-imagination…