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The Theopolitics of Vaccinations

…various faith traditions to articulate a theopolitics of vaccination. We have invited scholars of religion, clergy, medical professionals, and jurists from a variety of disciplinary and faith perspectives to provide…

The Praxis of Organizing by Two American Muslims

…for stories that have formed and shaped the leader’s understanding of anger, power, politics and religion. Relational meetings do not surface “issues” right away, but search for the underlying “fire”…

The Political Theology Syllabi Project: Dana Hollander

…which to thematize the relationship of religion and politics is a highly effective way both to engage undergraduate students, and to tap into and develop the research interests of graduate…

From Teaching My Class to Catholic Social Teaching: Reflections on Extending the Reach of Nonviolence

…language, nonviolent in our politics and policies and attitudes toward humanity and creation itself.” It’s hard to disagree with the general sentiment expressed here. It’s also hard to understand what…

‘What is speculative realism and what has it to do with the world of ethics, politics, church and theology?’ is the question posed in this special themed edition of Political…

Rage, Racism, and the New Global Biopolitics of Identity and Difference – Reflections on the Meaning of the Concentration Camp

…(“The Order of Terror”, Fischer, 2008). The book consists of a kind of structuralist sociology of the Nazi death camps and how they functioned, an analysis of their pitiless “biopolitics”,…

“Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mennonite Political Theology”: A Preview of Political Theology’s Special Issue

…Radicalism.” [7] See Otto, “Making Martyrs Mennonite.” [8] See Phillips, “Anabaptist Political Theologies.” [9] See Bender, The Anabaptist Vision. [10] See Urry, Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood. [11] Compare Yoder, The Politics of Jesus, with Reimer, Toward an Anabaptist Political…

Roger Haydon Mitchell on his “Church, Gospel, and Empire: How the Politics of Sovereignty Impregnated the West”

the modern capitalist nation state and on into the present globalised biopolitical world. Having set out this genealogy, the book embarks on the crucial task of reconfiguring a theopolitics decontaminated…

The Invisible Committee

…actualized world that would carry out politics as event and irruption, rather than a politics of governing, voting, and participation in “the orderly progression of disaster” (N, 61-62). This is…

The Politics of the Inner Life in Moore, Cajka, and Woodbine’s New Books

…to navigate moral decision-making. Brenna Moore’s Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism (University of Chicago Press, 2021) examines a group who resisted far-right politics and…

Unresolved Tensions: Common Humanity vs. Ethnographic Frameworks

…and democratic politics (that is, a politics that aims at forming a people through ensuring that political agency is distributed as widely as possible) is the ongoing way to do…

…part. It isn’t. I’m simply stating my view: I really don’t see a principled distinction between Christian politics as Hauerwas envisions it, and Islamist politics as currently practiced in Egypt….