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
Author: Roger Green
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
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
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
“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
What Are We Going To Do With White People? (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe / Osage Nation)
Out of respect for Dr Tinker’s writing style, the editor has chosen to keep the author’s footnotes intact. Readers should know that they often expand and clarify the text in
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens, Part 8 (Roger Green)
In my previous post, I discussed some of the parodic qualities by which the notion of madness occurred in the generation following Horkheimer and Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment. Many readers
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens, Part 7 (Roger Green)
I ended my previous post with the following sentiment. It is certainly worth rejecting Horkheimer and Adorno where they are wrong and not refusing to put them on a pedestal.
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens, Part 6 (Roger Green)
As I ended my previous post in this series, the postsecular moment has brought with it a broadening of application of the anti-Semitism the Horkheimer and Adorno describe with respect
The Dialectic Of Enlightenment From A Postsecular Lens, Part 5
In this series of posts, I have been reviewing Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s Dialectic of Enlightenment from a ‘post secular’ lens. In my last post, I was tracing the authors’ descriptions