Recent Posts
- Binding Berlant
- Feminist (Theological) Fantasies
- The Rupture of Desire: An Interview with China Miéville
- Inhabiting queer religiosity
- Partition as Oedipal Tragedy: A Conversation between Bratya Basu and Milinda Banerjee
- Partition and/as Political Theology: A Conversation with Kieran Griffiths
- Ascetic Idealizations
- Ethics, Life, and Medieval Texts
- Political Awakening and Ascension of the Matuas in Post-independence Bengali Society (1947-2011) (স্বাধীনতা উত্তর পর্বে বঙ্গীয় সমাজে মতুয়াদের রাজনৈতিক জাগরণ এবং উত্তরণ [১৯৪৭-২০১১]), an interview with Kanu Halder
- Between Excess and Emptying
- Reprising Islamic Political Theology: Genre and the Time of Tribulation
- Interview with Joan Wallach Scott
- Deep Interdisciplinarity and the Work of Political Theology
- Bhakti, Hindu Theology and Equality: An Interview with Jon Keune
- Reflections on The Racial Contract
- Race, Equality, Citizenship, and Belonging: Reading James Baldwin and Wong Kim Ark
- Ten Tips to De-Carcerate Your Theology, Ethics, or Religion Classroom
- Islam & Anarchism: Relationships & Resonances
- Abolition Apostles
- Break Every Yoke
- The Trickster: Ancient Spirit, Modern Political Theology
- Introduction: The Serious Work of Political Theology
- Re-imagining Political Theology
- What’s Faith Got to Do with Political Theory/Theology?
- Nietzsche’s Prophet, Shulman’s Prophecy
- To Think is to Resist: Notes Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Freedom
- Between old and new gods
- The Zeal of a Convert to Political Theology
- “There is Grief, There is Death…”: Mourning in the Wake of COVID-19
- Response to George Shulman
- On Drawing Normative Distinctions: Populism between “Honest” and “Hijacked” Christianity
- CFP: Political Theology Beyond
- Deprovincializing Political Theology
- Redemption, Emancipation, and Populism: An Interview with Paula Biglieri and Luciana Cadahia
- The Brink: Betwixt and Between
- Confronting the Existential Crisis of Political Theology
- Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption and the Contemporary Moment
- Salafi Piety: A Story of Radical Rupture
- The Inheritances of Immigration
- Pious Disjuncture and the Discursive Condition
- Political Theology and the Democratic Paradox
- Genealogy and Tradition as Methods in Islamic Studies
- Ghostly Presences and Hindutva 2.0: An Interview with Anustup Basu
- Using Cognitive Science to Reconceptualize Islamic Ethics and “Islamist” Socio-political Movements
- The Multiplicity of the Premodern Islamic Tradition
- Introduction: The Roots of Islamic Piety
- Political Theorists and Theologians Can Be Friends
- New Directions in African Political Theologies
- How Does It Feel To Be Seen As Needing a Cure
- On the Work of Mourning in Muñoz
Recent Symposia
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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?
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George Shulman’s Letters on Political Theology
This symposium celebrates George Shulman’s work on political theology by continuing the conversation that formally concluded when Shulman’s “Political Theology” seminar met for the last time in the spring of 2021.
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The Roots and Ruptures of Contemporary Islamic Piety
We are pleased to welcome six contributors to discuss the state of many contemporary questions in Islamic studies.
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Short Meditations on José Esteban Muñoz’s The Sense of Brown
PTN welcomes four short meditations on the José Esteban Muñoz’s posthumous book.
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Church State Corporation
Church State Corporation is a powerful reminder that . . . rights [are] recognized on a whim rather than guaranteed by nature.
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Law, Religion, and Paradoxes of Sovereignty
We are excited to bring Spencer Dew, Nicholas Shrubsole, and Méadhbh McIvor into conversation about the juridification of religion and the religification of law, about the network of relationships that are exposed to us when law and religion interact, about a shared skepticism toward religious identities, and more.
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Islamophobia and Political Theology
This round robin symposium showcases the work of three emerging leaders in scholarly research on Islamophobia: a political theorist, an anthropologist, and a sociologist. They each share a commitment to challenge injustice through scholarship even as they differ in approach.