…Professor of Theology, Boston University, interests in Chinese religion, politics, and sexuality, and comparison with Christianity Aseel Najib, Assistant Professor of History, Dartmouth College, interests in Islamic history and politics,…
…University A Measure of Existence: The Value of A Black Theology of Liberation Responding: Adam Clark, Xavier University ~~~ A9-307 C Religion and Politics Unit Theme: Religion in Politics and Politics…
Claude Lefort (1924-2010) was a French philosopher and public intellectual who theorized modern forms of politics. He is no stranger to the field of political theology, and his well-known essay,…
…thought. Niebuhr (and most other pragmatists in the history of politics), would never countenance the chimerical notion of a post-partisan moment. Politics does not work that way, even when women…
…current politics of the white working class. They suggest that the this particular constituency is something the leadership of neither party wants, but can’t really “gift” to the other side…
To help us launch the Political Theology Network, we asked scholars working at the intersection of religion and politics to share five books that inspired them. The “Books We Love”…
Editor’s Note: I’m happy to welcome Kit Kirkland, a Ph.D student in International Relations at the University of St. Andrews whose research focuses on the relationship of Christianity and politics…
…act as a distraction from the issues which will act as crucial during a proper election campaign – jobs, economy and welfare for example. But the present mood in politics…
…and, therefore in our politics, a commitment to justice based not simply on ideology but for foremostly on an understanding of God’s participation with us. Plus the fifteen can be…
…politics, and her politics influence her theology—and how might attention to this question change how we read Weil today? How does Weil separate questions of Church from questions of religion,…
…God defends the Israelites and through them the Gentiles, by becoming incarnate in Jesus in the first place (cf. John 3:16). There are geographical and gender politics at play, of…
…this comparison between Tolstoy’s interpretation of the temptation narrative, and that of Dostoyevsky’s is stark given that Tolstoy’s alignment with such ‘radical’ politics stands alongside his remarkably severe and austere…