Recent Posts
- Decolonization at the Intersection of Political Theology and Settler Colonial Studies
- Bread, Hunger, and Commensality: Food Symbols of Emancipation and Solidarity in the Theopolitical Imagination of Jesus in the Gospels
- Therians: An Anthrozoomorphic Scapegoat
- Be Our Guest: How We Found Holy Communion in Every Meal
- Jesus’s Table in Christofacist Brazil
- The Food on Christian Tables and the Danger of Abstract Concern
- Cultivating Justice and Hope amid Different Worlds: An Interview with Silvana Rabinovich
- “War” in The Time of The Rebellion: Between Colonial and Decolonial Narratives About Malabar of 1921
- Theorizing Domination Itself: Philosophy, Organizing Movements, and Vincent Lloyd’s Black Dignity
- History, Memory, and the Everyday: Life in the Time of Rebellion
- ANTI-POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF MAPPILA REBELLION
- Malabar Rebellion, Self-Cultivation and Multiple Meanings of Khilafat/Caliphate
- A Comment on Christopher Tounsel, Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan
- Religion and National Integration in Sudan and India
- The Public Lives of Sovereignty
Recent Symposia
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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?
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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.