…to ask not only how religion and politics affect children and shape childhood, but also to examine how religiopolitical ideologies and institutions make some living children socially illegible as such….
…(The Promise of Politics, 202; see also The Human Condition, 242). At the same time, Arendt’s vision of politics assumes that political subjects are united by a common humanity; her…
…one hand, many different religions, and, on the other hand, many different kinds and methods of doing politics.”[10] Schmitt himself did not develop this dictum further, for example by extending…
…shaped by a particular historical experience of biopolitics, the use of state and other forms of power to regulate the creation and nurturing of human life. The recent debate mostly…
…entitled “Politicizing Theory,” because politics calls us to action while theory calls for mere contemplation. However, if in the 1980s Cavarero and her feminist collaborators sought to separate themselves from…
…prophetic tradition that denounces them, but does not think about politics in the way that actual politicians think. For politicians—and for political theorists with whom Niebuhr interacted—politics is certainly about…
…authentic communities. Like the idealistic seminary students seeking more authentic communities, political activists in 1980’s were frustrated with Reagan politics and so they departed to Central America where real politics…
…Statecraft. We began with the Obama-Niebuhr connection. Repeatedly since 2007 Obama has pointed to the American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr as a significant influence on his Christian belief and his politics….
…and the renewed interest in the politics of care that the pandemic has engendered, especially since the intersections of disability, race, class, gender and debility have always most acutely illuminated…
…hand in hand with the transition from a politics of relics to a politics of images. Young Kings: Marcus Rashford and Theopolitical Charisma – Valentina Napolitano In the aftermath of…
…what R.W. Connell calls masculinity politics: ‘those mobilizations and struggles where the meaning of masculine gender is at issue, and, with it, men’s position in gender relations’ (Connell, Masculinities, 2005,…
…there are at least three very good reasons for doing: through the labor movement, we as Christian intellectuals can personally exercise a theology of liberation, a politics of common life,…