…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….
…profits. Abraham Lincoln, after one term in the House of Representatives in 1846 where he distinguished himself by opposing the Mexican War, re-entered politics by retaking a House seat for…
…and Jeffrey Robbins’ recently published “Religion, Politics, and the Earth” (hereafter RPE). If you aren’t already familiar with their book, you can now become an expert! If you’re looking for…
…out of politics, I argue that religious people ought to be free to bring their visions of the good life into the public sphere—into politics as well as other aspects…
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”…
…politics, and by politics he seems to mean what the state does, that is at the service of Christianity. As someone deeply influenced by John Howard Yoder’s critique of Constantinianism,…
…Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins. Ayubi, Zahra. Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society. Choi, Ki Joo. Disciplined by Race: Theological Ethics and…
…and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2009), and is currently writing a book on the emergence of Muslim politics and the founding of Pakistan….
…also responsive to the history and politics of the region in which I live and work. It possesses a fragmentary and occasional nature. The work of Reinhold Niebuhr, especially his…
…Simon Critchley; or a type of reactionary or obscure subjectivity, along with Alain Badiou.[1] Whatever we call it, the Hagans and the Tillises depend upon our acquiescence to “politics as…
…estimation, a fundamental truth evident in both scripture and our shared experience: We are not single-handedly responsible for what happens to us. We do not get what we deserve! At…