Overview The aim of this article is to foreground a praxis of non-Western diplomacy within a rubric of interplay among international relations, cultural representation and intellectual thought. The 18th century Moroccan
Category: Politics and Religion
The Meaning Of January 6, 2021 – Editorial Response I (Roger Green)
The following is the first of a series of responses on the part of the editorial staff of The New Polis to the events of January 6, 2021. In the
Rhetorical Erasure, Indian Slavery, And The Doctrine Of Discovery, Part 1 (Roger Green)
The following is the first of a multi-part series. By far, public discourse in the United States is most frequently framed within a white-black binary. The legacy of slavery looms large
An Introduction And Call For Submissions To The New Polis On The Doctrine of Discovery (Roger Green)
The New Polis, in conjunction with other Whitestone Publications, is currently at work on a larger project for the year 2021 that involves the publication of articles, online seminars and
Indigenous Land-Grabbing In Brazil Amid COVID-19 (Roger Green)
A recent article in The New York Times by anthropologist Bruce Alpert relays the story of a fifteen-year-old Yanomami boy, Alvaney Xirixana, who died from Covid-19 earlier this month. He
CoroNations – Notes From The Quarantine (John Panteleimon Manoussakis )
Oedipal Disease A plague has befallen the city. It is the nature of any sickness to reveal what lies hidden under one’s body. For through its symptoms the sickness manifests
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
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 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