This conference script was partially delivered at the Telos-Paul Piccone Conference in New York, February 15-16, 2020. The conference theme was: “After the Welfare State, Reconceiving Mutual Aid.” The implicit idea of Mutual Aid was advanced in Peter Kropotkin’s 1902 book, Mutual Aid–A Factor in Evolution. Kropotkin argued against social…
Call For Proposals – Migration, Mobility, And Mass Displacements – Toward a “Political Theology” Appropriate To An Age Of Global Disorder
Migration, Mobility, and Mass Displacements – Toward a “Political Theology” Appropriate to an Age of Global Disorder Where? University of Kent (Canterbury, England) When? August 27-29, 2020 Deadline for Proposals: May 1, 2020 The Department of Religious Studies and the Centre for Critical Theory at the University of Kent in…
Impeachment, Hyperpartisanship, And “The Democratic Paradox” (Carl Raschke)
The impeachment circus has now finished playing to Washington town after six months, all the time taxing its motley audience to the outer limits of their attention span. In the meantime, we came within a hair’s breadth of going to war with Iran, and the novel coronavirus has virtually shut…
100 Seconds To Doomsday, Or A Vaccination Against “Wokeness” (Patrick Soch)
As Raidió Teilifís Éireann reported on January 23, 2020, the Doomsday Clock was moved to 100 seconds until midnight. The clock’s timekeepers, all members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, adjusted the clock forward by twenty seconds, a symbolic gesture indicating the world is closer than ever to a human-caused catastrophic…
To Not Lose Sight Of The Good – Notes On The Zapatismo Ethic, Part 2 (Matt Rosen)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The article is republished from Religious Theory. The recasting of the field of three against the field of two, which is the field that is anterior to it and unilaterally determines it while being foreclosed to…
To Not Lose Sight Of The Good – Notes On The Zapatismo Ethic, Part 1 (Matt Rosen)
The following is the first of a two-part series. The same article appeared previously in Religious Theory. On the first of January 1994, as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army of National Liberation, or EZLN) declared war on the Mexican…
Rescuing Political Theology From Its Passionate Partisans (Carl Raschke)
It is high time, I fear, for someone to call “bovine body waste” on the seemingly inexhaustible creativity in the current overuse and abuse of the phrase “political theology.” Ever since Carl Schmitt minted the term in the 1920s, it has wobbled over the generations not only in its connotations,…
Is Theological Education Becoming Post-Christian? (Roger Green)
With minimal edits, this post was delivered orally for a panel discussion at The American Academy of Religion at the San Diego Convention Center in November 2019. Tink Tinker asked the author to present a response in line with Tinker’s thinking and scholarship. Tinker had been invited but refused to…
Why Sex And Religion Matter In Australian Politics (Paul Tyson)
One might wish that sex and religion be left out of politics as much as possible, but this has not been the case in Australia in recent times. Recall the same-sex marriage plebiscite and various state legislations and Education Department policies around transgender issues for school students. Consider the forthcoming…
“No Women Amongst Us” – Bare Life, Violence, And Gender in Byzantium (Jared Lacy)
Neil Jordan’s film Byzantium (2012), which tells the story of a pair of mother/daughter vampires on the run from a male-only secret society of vampires known as Brotherhood, has been widely read as a feminist approach to the literary convention of the vampire. The depiction of female vampires that are neither villainized for…