Secularity, like sovereignty is an old unspoken concept.[1] It critiques religion’s multifarious overtures to the conduct of politics to alloy governance, and for the premodern world, it is the grammar of…
…are rather scarce in the rest of the Scriptures. Nathan’s story itself begins quaintly, with the pastoral imagery of a family and their beloved lamb. The story evokes the sympathy…
…Culture in the Politics of Reproduction,” Feminist Studies 13.2 (1987): 263-292 (271); see also Janelle S. Taylor, The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram: Technology, Consumption and the Politics of…
…the Scriptures, we see that the revelation of the presence of Christ or the constitution of his people is rendered contingent upon the extension of hospitality to the poor and…
…all-too-human violence be interrogated. Said otherwise, what can an Easter earthquake teach us about state violence? The image of the earthquake runs throughout the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Earthquakes function…
…and was capable of reflecting learnedly on the ways in which Scripture and Christian tradition spoke to the crises of the time. (It is said that when they met, Reinhold…
…grossly distorts these scriptures and also contributes to anti-Jewish bias. As New Testament scholar Amy-Jill Levine has argued, this logic is not only supersessionist, it assumes that there is a…
…meditate on scriptures of a fictional religion. Lauren Oya Olamina (the protagonist of Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower) is the precocious, disabled, daughter of a Black Baptist preacher whose community, in…
…of which must be ordered by wisdom and prudence consistent with scripture. This can be accomplished either by civil magistrates or, preferably, by the ministers of the church, but the…
…How can we reconcile—or relate to—these two extremes in Thoreau’s approach to violence? One approach is to consider Thoreau’s politics as a derivative outcome of his vision of the transcendent…
…understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day 47…
…traffics in a certain casual correspondence of sin and ignorance with darkness common to many theological texts (and to the Scriptures themselves, for that matter, from Isaiah 9.2 to John…