The Political Theology Syllabi Project: Ruth Marshall
I first taught this graduate seminar in 2008 as a "Topics in Political Thought" course, and called it "Political Theologies" - a political theory seminar, cross-listed with Study of Religion. Part of...
View ArticleMarch, Osage County – What Ukraine Reveals About our Dysfunctional Family of...
Viewing the film August: Osage County with academy award nominees Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep during the same week that Russia’s Vladimir Putin occupied Crimea and thumbed his nose at President...
View ArticleSunday Baseball and Other Sins: America’s Pastime and the Decline of Blue Laws
I will say to the people that try to erase the Sabbath from our statute books, we will swim our horses in blood to their bridles before you will ever get us away from it”[1] - Billy Sunday,...
View ArticleSouth Africa—Twenty Years Later (by Stephen Martin)
And so it was this past Easter Saturday that thousands of South Africans, supported by religious leaders, “evoke[d] the spirit of the 1980s, when the faith community intervened to promote and defend...
View ArticleDemocracy No Longer to Come
The international crisis in Ukraine, combined with the precipitous and aggressive behavior of Russia toward the West, the docility of Europe and the fecklessness of American foreign policy in shaping...
View ArticleReflections on the National Elections of India, April-May 2014 – Shaji George...
Elections in India are always an interplay of politics, religion, language, caste, national concerns, regional interests, money, business interests, media and so on. Hence any analysis of the election...
View Article“Exclusive” Growth: Fundamentalism in the service of Liberalism, and vice versa
Federal elections in the world's largest democracy have recently led to a significant change of leadership in India. There are two crucial domains of concern for anyone looking at the future of India...
View ArticlePolitical Theology or Social Ethics?: Towards The Democratic (Keri Day)
Within Christian traditions, one may be met with this provocative question: does “political theology” or “social ethics” sponsor liberative practices oriented towards human flourishing? Interestingly,...
View ArticleChinese Democracy?
This is the second of a series of five articles on understanding China today. The articles cover politics, economics, culture and religion, since all of these are important for making some sense of...
View ArticleThe Decline of Democracy and the Coming of the Strongman
Russian President Vladmir Putin’s bold military intrusion into the Syrian civil war and tycoon Donald Trump’s unanticipated and too-easily-dismissed electoral ascent share a similar genesis, which in...
View ArticleThe Wisdom of the Serpent and the Harmlessness of the Dove (Jeremy Sabella)
Niebuhr’s choice of title for The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (CLCD) is something of an outlier. The titles for his other major works follow a straightforward formula: they...
View ArticleIntroducing Political Theology 16.6, on Religious Pluralism and Values in the...
This themed issue of Political Theology is devoted to a roundtable discussion of Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere by Lenn E. Goodman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at...
View ArticleThe Greek Rhetorical Concept of “Parrhesia” As Theological Key To A Renewed...
From Hollywood comes the latest political scandal. Richard Dreyfuss, a prominent actor, was spotted at a Ted Cruz rally. Shock and outrage echoed from Hollywood and Vine throughout Malibu Canyon....
View ArticleCatholic Social Teaching: Pro-Establishment? (Matthew Shadle)
In his address to the United States Congress in September, Pope Francis said, “Politics is . . . an expression of our compelling need to live as one, in order to build as one the greatest common good:...
View ArticleBrexit Confirms Some Of Plato’s Cautions (Ronald Beiner)
Political Theology Today invites short, personal reflections from our contributors and editors concerning their immediate reaction to, and what they foresee as the consequences of, the referendum in...
View ArticleSouth African Political Unrest And The New Activism Of The Churches – A Tale...
Over the past two or three years I’ve published several pieces with PTT on the theological significance of South Africa’s democratic evolution and the involvement of churches there. The last of these...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the Triumph of the Personal (David True)
With Trump’s Inauguration upon us today, many of us are still trying to make sense of his rise to prominence, let alone power. Conventional wisdom holds that the Trump campaign was utterly novel and...
View ArticlePolitical Anthropology And The Post-Liberal Future (Jonathan Cole)
Liberalism is in the throes of a profound crisis of legitimacy. It feels like only yesterday that it was able to bask casually in the triumph of the “end of history”, as Francis Fukuyama famously...
View ArticleThe Wisdom of the Serpent and the Harmlessness of the Dove (Jeremy Sabella)
Niebuhr’s choice of title for The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness (CLCD) is something of an outlier. The titles for his other major works follow a straightforward formula: they...
View ArticleIntroducing Political Theology 16.6, on Religious Pluralism and Values in the...
This themed issue of Political Theology is devoted to a roundtable discussion of Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere by Lenn E. Goodman, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at...
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