Recent Posts
- Decentering History: Animals, Politics, and Religions
- Humanity beyond the human: Theorizing War with Sylvia Wynter and Edward Said
- Towards a Comparative Political Theology: Ancient Greek, Roman, and Medieval Chinese Perspectives
- Liberalism’s Death Has No Afterlife. Perhaps That’s a Good Thing.
- On Being a Weapon: Jewishness 431 days into a Genocide
- (How to Do) Political Theology Without Men?
- Am I, then, Immortal? Shelley, Derrida, and the Religiosity of Transhumanism
- The Wrestling Itself is the Point: A Response to Joshua Leifer
- Generous Reading, Gracious Reading: A reply to Robert Davis, Emma De Lisle, C. Libby, and Valentina Napolitano
- “I Speak with a Throb”: Reading Adélia Prado’s Use of Figure in Response to Niklaus Largier
- Desiring Possibility: Trans Figuration, “As If,” and the Holy Fool
- A Foucault’s Otherwise: A commentary on Niklaus Largier’s Figures of Possibility
- Friendship in Dark Times: Fragments on Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim Literatures
- Dark Figures
- Toward A Theological Decolonization of the Nation-State in Africa
Recent Symposia
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Animal Studies and Political Theology
Under the multidisciplinary banner ‘Animal Studies’, we may decenter the ‘human’ in this history of capitalist agriculture, and instead attend to the political histories of insect agents. The resulting narrative is intriguingly subversive.
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Figures of Possibility: Aesthetic Experience, Mysticism, and the Play of the Senses, by Niklaus Largier: A Discussion
Figures and figural arrangements–a row of houses, a car accident, a view along a street, a first touch of two hands–do not just communicate some feeling or meaning that can be known. They do not just create an atmosphere that can be felt and understood. Instead, figures produce effects and differential intensities that precede and
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New Theologies of Nature
This symposium brings together three thinkers on the ideas of nature, animals, God, and the relationship between all of them.
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A Liberation of the Table: Christian Reflections on Animals, Eating, and Food Systems
The authors of this symposium nvite the reader to consider the liberation of those at the table, those on the table, those servicing and serving the tables, those raising, tending and harvesting for tables, and those without access to any table at all.
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Religion, Rebellion, and Sovereignty: Malabar Rebellion and the Problem Space of Political Theology
The symposium initiates a conversation on the forms and practices of sovereignty in South Asia in the context of a peasant Muslim insurgency against British colonialism in 20th-century Malabar in South India.
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Religion, State, Sovereignty: Interventions and Conversations
The essays seek a genealogy of and reckoning with the place of religion in modern regimes of sovereignty, its pre-colonial histories and post-colonial legacies, as well as an accounting of the fissures that remain in its emplacement, out of which new life continues to grow.
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Queer and Trans Religion, Devoted to Berlant
This forum reflects on the intellectual legacy of the late affect theorist Lauren Berlant, who passed away in 2021, for queer and trans studies in religion. Berlant once claimed they had nothing to say about religion – but our contributors disagree.
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Partition and/as Political Theology: Art, Resistance, and Peacebuilding in India and Northern Ireland
The following is the first of a short series on partition and/as political theology, which will be published in the journal Political Theology in 2024.
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Conversations in Medieval Christianity
Why is it interesting to put the word “political” next to the word “theology”? And what do early and medieval Christian authors like Meister Eckhart, John Cassian, and Thomas of Cantimpré have to do with either?