31 October 2011

Article: Jan Assmann and the Theologization of the Political

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Article: Jan Assmann and the Theologization of the Political

On political theology in ancient Egypt: Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Columbia University), "Jan Assmann and the Theologization of the Political" ("Political Theology", 12 [4], 2011: pp. 511-30).

Quote: "Assmann attempts to counter Schmitt's conception of modern secularization by suggesting that Mosaic monotheism inaugurated a revolution by theologizing the political. ... It will be attempted throughout this paper to bring conceptual clarification to Assmann’s notion of theologization by relating it to the question of political theology currently taking place [sic] in France and the English-speaking world."

Links to Equinox journals still can't be attached to Google+ posts, and Google's webcache seems prevented from capturing many of the same articles. Until someone at Equinox can be bothered to fix the problem, please click on the link at the top of the cache to be taken to the publisher's abstract.

Journal special issue: Responsible South African Public Theology in a Global Era

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Journal special issue: Responsible South African Public Theology in a Global Era

In January 2011, the "International Journal of Public Theology" published a special issue (5 [1]) on "Responsible South African Public Theology in a Global Era".

The introduction and the first article set out "to help the non-South African reader to better situate and understand the contributions ... Attention is also given to the debate on public theology as such and the different notions of public theologians prevalent in the South African context."

30 October 2011

Article: Demonomics: Leibniz and the antinomy of modern power

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Article: Demonomics: Leibniz and the antinomy of modern power

Kyle McGee, an independent scholar who was awarded a J.D. from Villanova University in 2009, is the author of "Demonomics: Leibniz and the antinomy of modern power" ("Radical Philosophy: A Journal of Socialist and Feminist Philosophy", 168, July/August 2011: pp. 33-45).

Excerpt: "Two apparently opposed approaches to power in political philosophy - political theology and biopower - are the contemporary heirs to this critical tradition. Each ... advancing something like a theory of radical democracy on its normative edge. ... Together, however, they compose an antinomy. ... Applying pressure to the antinomy yields an alternative concept of power that belongs to a non-democratic discourse. ... The conclusion restates some key findings that gesture towards a finally non-democratic political philosophy for the present."

Article: Re-Emergence of Practice in Contemporary Theology: Aspects and Prospects

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Article: Re-Emergence of Practice in Contemporary Theology: Aspects and Prospects

Published in a Romanian journal: Olli-Pekka Vainio (University of Helsinki), "Re-Emergence of Practice in Contemporary Theology: Aspects and Prospects" ("Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University of Oradea", 9 [2], 2011: pp. 183-200).

Quote: "When positivist philosophies started to falter and pragmatism gained momentum in Anglo-American philosophy, it was natural for theology to ... move from theories to practices. This highlighting of practice can be seen in ... liberation theology, postliberal theology, and virtue-ethics and virtue-epistemology. In this article, I will ... examine the current debates and their possible future prospects."

The link is to a full-text copy of the article.

Article: Politico-theological critique of the national anti-myth (in Croatian)

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Article: Politico-theological critique of the national anti-myth (in Croatian)

Written in Croatian, journalist Drago Pilsel's article, "Političko-teologijska kritika nacionalnog anti-Mita" ("Politico-theological critique of the national anti-myth"), was published in the journal, "Politička misao" ("Croatian Political Science Review"; 48 [1], June 2011: pp. 135-56).

Quote: "This article presents a discussion of the essence of moral, political theology, one which is specifically related to the political life and the public attitude with which Croatia would like to enter the European Union and make itself more present in the world. ... Understood in this way, every kind of theology, and especially political theology, has a permanent and necessary role to play in the process of liberation from all forms of religious alienation."

A full-text copy of the article can be downloaded from the link below.

28 October 2011

Book: Seek the Peace of the City: Christian Political Criticism as Public, Realist, and Transformative

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Book: Seek the Peace of the City: Christian Political Criticism as Public, Realist, and Transformative

On theological realism in political theory: Richard Bourne (University of Cumbria), "Seek the Peace of the City: Christian Political Criticism as Public, Realist, and Transformative" (Cascade Books, October 2009).

Endorsement: "Imaginatively drawing on a wide range of theological literature, social, and political theory, Bourne, in a manner unlike anyone else, helps us see how the work of John Howard Yoder provides a constructive politics for Christians in our day. ... Bourne, hopefully, has made John Howard Yoder indispensable for work in political theology." (Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University)

CFP: The Future of Liberation Theology

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CFP: The Future of Liberation Theology

The First Annual "Union Seminary Quarterly Review" Graduate Students' Conference, themed "The Future of Liberation Theology", will take place on 24 February 2012 at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. The deadline for paper proposals is 1 December 2011.

Quote: "How might the varied liberationist projects of the past inform contemporary efforts within and outside the academy to confront the various crises humans face today? How, if at all, has the context for engaging such crises changed since the advent of liberation theology? What is at the root of the shift away from liberation theology in the religious academy?"

27 October 2011

Article: Mapping Black Theology Globally

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Article: Mapping Black Theology Globally

Against a "universal humanism": Edward P. Antonio (Iliff School of Theology), "Mapping Black Theology Globally" ("Religion Compass", 5 [2], February 2011: pp. 61-70).

Quote: "This essay is a survey of the global presence of black theology in three regions of the world: South Africa, Britain, and the Caribbean. The essay ... constructs its international presence as a summons to recognize the extent to which black theology itself is riven by the internal differences which always constitute it in the specific idiom of its local responses to the ubiquity of racism in modernity."

Chapter: On the Muslim Question

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Chapter: On the Muslim Question

Marking "Islam ... as the pre-eminent site of danger to politics": Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania), "On the Muslim Question", in "Democracy, Religious Pluralism and the Liberal Dilemma of Accommodation", ed. Monica Mookherjee (Springer, January 2011: pp. 65-75).

Quote: "Marx’s essay 'On the Jewish Question' marks the Jew as the site where post-Enlightenment Europe confronted the spectre of theology in the question of citizenship. In our time, the figure of the Muslim has become the axis where questions of political philosophy and political theology, politics and ethics meet."

Chapter: Charisma and Critique: Critical Theory, Authority, and the Critique of Political Theology

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Chapter: Charisma and Critique: Critical Theory, Authority, and the Critique of Political Theology

Just published: David Norman Smith (University of Kansas), "Charisma and Critique: Critical Theory, Authority, and the Critique of Political Theology", in "The Diversity of Social Theories", ed. Harry F. Dahms (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, October 2011: pp. 33-56).

Quote: "Marcuse broke with transcendentalism when he repudiated existentialism and political theology. He concluded that relying on any kind of charismatic savior, whether a class or a leader, is an abdication of sociological realism and political responsibility. Reaching this conclusion ... enabled him to assist Horkheimer in the elaboration of the founding principles of critical theory."

24 October 2011

Article: The Problem of Emergency in the American Supreme Court

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Article: The Problem of Emergency in the American Supreme Court

Just published: Emily Hartz (University of Southern Denmark) and Rasmus Ugilt (Aarhus University, Denmark), "The Problem of Emergency in the American Supreme Court" ("Law and Critique", 22 [3], November 2011: pp. 295-316).

Quote: "Sixty years before Carl Schmitt wrote his Political Theology, and more than a 100 years before President Bush announced a 'war on terrorism' the American Supreme Court grappled with the difficult issue of emergency powers in connection with issues arising out of the American Civil War (1861-1865). ... This article engages the theoretical framework of Locke, Schmitt and Agamben in order to come to a better understanding of this important set of cases."

Articles: Emergency Government Within the Bounds of the Constitution: An Introduction / Pentecost: Democratic Sovereignty in Carl Schmitt

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Articles: Emergency Government Within the Bounds of the Constitution: An Introduction to Carl Schmitt, "The Dictatorship of the Reich president according to Article 48 R.V." / Pentecost: Democratic Sovereignty in Carl Schmitt

Just published: A special issue of "Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory" on "Carl Schmitt's Constitutional Theory" (18 [3], September 2011). It includes the first English translation of Schmitt's "Die Diktatur des Reichspräsidenten nach Art. 48 der Reichsverfassung" ("The Dictatorship of the Reich president according to Art 48 of the Reich constitution": pp. 299-323).

Two articles seem particularly concerned with political theology: Ellen Kennedy (University of Pennsylvania), "Emergency Government Within the Bounds of the Constitution: An Introduction to Carl Schmitt, 'The Dictatorship of the Reich president according to Article 48 R.V.'" (pp. 284-97).

Excerpt: "Germany's first republican constitution belonged to the set of 'liberal-democratic constitutions' that replaced monarchies across Europe after the Great War. What kings and heredity had been for centuries gave way to the principle of democratic sovereignty as self-evident, a belief Carl Schmitt theorized as 'political theology': what God had been to the world, the King had been to the state, and now the people became as the present immanence of meaning."

Anne Norton (University of Pennsylvania), "Pentecost: Democratic Sovereignty in Carl Schmitt (pp. 389-402).

Excerpt: "Dictatorship, like monarchy, affirmed the subjective, the individual will, the individual. Schmitt's debt to Hegel is visible here, as is Hegel's political theology. ... His turn to Donoso Cortés reflects his commitment to 'Roman Catholicism as political form' and a more Catholic political theology. Schmitt's religious imperative has been, ironically, attractive to those Christian evangelicals who, committed to the notion of a personal God in a quite different sense, likewise insist on the primacy of the incarnate form of the divine sovereign."

22 October 2011

Book: The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought: The Political Hesychasm of John Romanides and Christos Yannaras

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Book: The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought: The Political Hesychasm of John Romanides and Christos Yannaras

Eastern Orthodox identity against western globalization: Daniel P. Payne (Baylor University), "The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought: The Political Hesychasm of John Romanides and Christos Yannaras" (Lexington Books, March 2011).

Endorsement: "At a time when political hesychasm is frequently being used to characterize Orthodox political theology, Daniel P. Payne presents us with a much needed critical analysis of the sources of this concept and its contemporary usage in Greek Orthodox theological thought." (Kristina Stoeckl, University of Rome "Tor Vergata")

Article: Between Liberalism and Theocracy

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Article: Between Liberalism and Theocracy

Just published: John D. Inazu (Washington University in St. Louis), "Between Liberalism and Theocracy" ("Campbell Law Review", 33 [3], 2011: pp. 591-608).

Quote: "By approaching these issues through the lens of political theology (as distinct from either political or constitutional theory), I hope to show that some of the most significant embodiments of conscience in the American colonies can neither be squared with an individualistic liberalism (as some on the left are prone to do) nor appropriated in the service of arguments that collapse the distinction between church and state (as some on the right are prone to do)."

Article: From Žižek's Monstrous Politics to the Political Theology of Kierkegaard's Housing Project

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Article: From Žižek's Monstrous Politics to the Political Theology of Kierkegaard's Housing Project

Just published: Marko Zlomislić (Conestoga College), "From Žižek's Monstrous Politics to the Political Theology of Kierkegaard's Housing Project" ("Toronto Journal of Theology", 27 [2], August 2011: pp. 175-88).

Quote: "Kierkegaard's philosophy provides us with a radical opening from which to re-think political theology from the position of the single individual to come. The program that Žižek upholds is not adequate for the transformation of society or self because it does not have a religious understanding of the individual. As such, Žižek's position is grounded in despair, not love."

19 October 2011

CFP: Non-Western perspectives on political theology

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CFP: Non-Western perspectives on political theology

The journal, "Political Theology" (www.politicaltheology.com), is calling for papers and contributions to its blog from non-Western perspectives:

"Do you have first-hand experience of religion and politics in the global South or Eastern Europe? Do you have an interest in political theology, but are tired of the Western focus of much of the discourse? Could you offer informed, intelligent comment on an issue of contemporary social and political concern in a non-Western context? If so, then the journal Political Theology wants to hear from you. We are seeking article submissions and blog posts on these themes. Calling all bloggers! We are currently planning a series called 'A Letter From...', for the journal's blog, 'There is Power in the Blog' (www.politicaltheology.com/blog/), which will feature perspectives on political theology from around the globe. If you want to put yourself forward as one of the bloggers representing a region of the globe please contact Julie Clague, Managing Editor of Political Theology
Julie.Clague@Glasgow.ac.uk."

The call has not (yet) been published, it seems, on the website of the journal or at the blog.

16 October 2011

Book: A Just Church: 21st century Liberation Theology in Action

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Book: A Just Church: 21st century Liberation Theology in Action

On liberation theology in Britain today: "A Just Church: 21st century Liberation Theology in Action", by Chris Howson, an Anglican inner-city priest from Bradford (Continuum, February 2011).

Quote: "Church members have been arrested, come under the scrutiny of security forces and been super-glued together at the gates of hell (aka Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment). This is their story: their successes and disasters, ... aimed at helping other Christians to evolve their own way of thinking, growing - and demonstrating the relevance of Church in today's contexts."

CFP: Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion

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CFP: Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion


A call for papers, including such on political theology and radical orthodoxy:

"Varieties of Continental Thought and Religion
June 15-16, 2012
Ryerson University
Toronto, Canada

"We invite submissions from scholars and graduate students based in Canada and abroad on the topic of Continental Thought and Religion. The general theme of the conference is meant to reflect the variety of articulations of religion that have emerged in contemporary European thought. While the focus of the conference is continental thought, we nonetheless conceive the latter in an interdisciplinary manner (including literary theory, social and political thought, psychoanalysis, and religious studies). We also encourage submissions from people interested in exploring possible connections with analytic philosophy.

"Confirmed Speakers: John Caputo (Syracuse U.), Bettina Bergo (U. de Montréal), more to be announced in the near future.

"In addition to our keynote speaker, John Caputo, we will have four commissioned workshops comprised of two papers and a response, and a series of themed panels. We invite submissions of three-page proposals for essays for the following themed panels with included possible topics:

"Phenomenology of Religion
The thought of Chrétien, Henry, Lacoste, Levinas, Marion, and Ricoeur
Topics: the gift; the work of art; appearance and transcendence; call and response

"Religion and Politics
The thought of Agamben, Asad, Connolly, Derrida, de Vries, Girard, Habermas, Schmitt, and Taylor
Topics: political theology; the post-secular; sovereignty; religion and violence; pluralism

"Religion and Speculative Realism
The thought of Brassier, Harman, Laruelle, and Meillassoux
Topics: materialism; correlationism; nihilism; the things themselves; divine inexistence; ‘future Christ’

"Beyond Theism and Atheism
The thought of Caputo, Kearney, Kristeva, Milbank, Vattimo
Topics: kenosis; anatheism; weak theology; a/theology; radical orthodoxy

"Continental Thought, Religion, and Aesthetics
The artwork of Bresson, Caravaggio, Celan, Chagall, Dostoyevsky, Dumont, Artemisia Gentileschi, Kahlo, Kapoor, Kiarostami, Kiefer, Malick, Newman, O'Keefe, and Stevens
The thought of Cavell, Cixous, Critchley, Irigaray, Marion, Nancy, and Rancière
Topics: transcendence in art; image and icon; creativity and creation; representation and idolatry

"Immanentism and Religion
Agamben, Badiou, Bergson, Deleuze, James, Foucault, Keller, and Žižek
Topics: self-organization; the event; plurality; bio-power; polydoxy

"History of Continental Thought and Religion
Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger
Topics: death of God; reason and faith; scripture and philosophy; religion and fantasy; onto-theology

"Please send only one three-page (double-spaced) proposal on one of the above themes and any questions to varieties2012@gmail.com by December 31, 2011. We intend to notify authors about our decisions by February 28, 2012. Other conference details (registration fee, preliminary program, etc.) will be announced in new year.

"The VCTR Conference is organized by John Caruana (Philosophy, Ryerson University) and Mark Cauchi (Humanities, York University)."

15 October 2011

Book: A World for All?: Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology

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Book: A World for All?: Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology

A "vision unbounded by national and ethnic borders" is contemplated in the interdisciplinary and ecumenical volume, "A World for All?: Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology", by the editors, William F. Storrar (Center of Theological Inquiry), Peter J. Casarella (DePaul University), and Paul Louis Metzger (Multnomah University), and contributors (Eerdmans, April 2011).

Endorsement: "The range of voices represented here reflects the complex and urgent question of how we can continue a worldwide exchange of action and policy that will allow all people to live together in a genuinely humane fashion. No discussion of political theology, social theory, and cosmopolitanism can be continued without reference to this book." (Robert Schreiter, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago)

Book: Hitler's Theology: A Study in Political Religion

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Book: Hitler's Theology: A Study in Political Religion

The English translation of a book originally published in German: Rainer Bucher (University of Graz), "Hitler's Theology: A Study in Political Religion", trans. Rebecca Pohl (Continuum, June 2011).

Quote: " Hitler's Theology investigates the use of theological motifs in Adolf Hitler’s public speeches and writings, and offers an answer to the question of why Hitler and his theo-political ideology were so attractive and successful presenting an alternative to the discontents of modernity."

Chapter: Justice in Evangelical Political Theology

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Chapter: Justice in Evangelical Political Theology

The chapter, "Justice in Evangelical Political Theology", by Stephen Kennedy (Trinity International University, Santa Ana) was published in the contributed volume, "God and Governing: Reflections on Ethics, Virtue, and Statesmanship", ed. Roger N. Overton (Pickwick Publications, July 2009; pp. 108-26).

From the editor's introduction: "Kennedy explores the implications of creation and the Trinity for how Christians ought to act within a national community. He argues that every right is reciprocated by a duty and that our existence in sociable community is a reflection of God existing eternally in three persons."

09 October 2011

Book: Anarchy and Apocalypse: Essays on Faith, Violence, and Theodicy

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Book: Anarchy and Apocalypse: Essays on Faith, Violence, and Theodicy

On religious anarchism and Adventist political theology: Ronald E. Osborn (University of Southern California), "Anarchy and Apocalypse: Essays on Faith, Violence, and Theodicy" (Cascade Books, June 2010).

Quote: "In this wide-ranging collection of essays Ronald E. Osborn explores the politically subversive and nonviolent anarchist dimensions of Christian discipleship in response to ... the violence of the 'principalities and powers' in the modern world. This book will serve as an indispensible primer in the political theology of the Adventist tradition, as well as a significant contribution to radical Christian thought in biblical, historical, and literary perspectives."

Book: The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology

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Book: The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology

Just published: The contributed volume, "The Church Made Strange for the Nations: Essays in Ecclesiology and Political Theology", edited by Paul G. Doerksen (Mennonite Brethren Collegiate Institute) and Karl Koop (Canadian Mennonite University), is available from the publisher (Pickwick Publications, September 2011), but not yet, it appears, from any online bookstores.

Endorsement: "'In early ecumenical debates ... Churches tried to define a new, critical role in society, after having failed to speak up for victims of violence and injustice. Descendents of the Radical Reformation - represented in this volume - confront us with that challenge anew. In dialogue with philosophy, history, sociology, and even the arts, a political theology for an exilic church (or exile-church) is inspired." (Fernando Enns, VU University Amsterdam)

Article: A "Collective Black" Liberation in the Face of "Honorary White" Racism? A Growing Edge for U.S. Black Liberation Theologies

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Article: A "Collective Black" Liberation in the Face of "Honorary White" Racism? A Growing Edge for U.S. Black Liberation Theologies

On black theology and "color blind racism": Kevin Patrick Considine (Loyola University, Chicago), "A 'Collective Black' Liberation in the Face of 'Honorary White' Racism? A Growing Edge for U.S. Black Liberation Theologies" ("Black Theology: An International Journal", 8 [3], 2010: pp. 286-306).

Quote: "[T]he paradigm is now comprised of three racial strata - 'whites,' 'honorary whites,' and 'collective Blacks' ... My study is a theological investigation that employs a mutually critical correlation to bring the theological work of Cone into dialogue with the sociological work of Bonilla-Silva."

08 October 2011

Article: A Theo-Politics of the (Im)proper: Jacques Derrida vis-a-vis Graham Ward

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Article: A Theo-Politics of the (Im)proper: Jacques Derrida vis-a-vis Graham Ward

Drawing on Derrida to criticize Ward: Daniel Miller (SUNY College, Oneonta), "A Theo-Politics of the (Im)proper: Jacques Derrida vis-a-vis Graham Ward" ("Political Theology", 12 [1], 2011: pp. 87-117).

Quote: "Scholars from a variety of disciplines have questioned the adequacy of secular liberal democracy as a model for the socio-political ... Graham Ward ... argues that theological communities provide the only means of exceeding the play of commodified surfaces in the cultural context of advanced capitalism."

Article: Competing Political Theologies: Intra-Muslim Polemics on the Limits of Prophetic Intercession

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Article: Competing Political Theologies: Intra-Muslim Polemics on the Limits of Prophetic Intercession

On the political theology of Indian Muslims in the early 1800s: SherAli Khan Tareen (Franklin and Marshall College), "Competing Political Theologies: Intra-Muslim Polemics on the Limits of Prophetic Intercession" ("Political Theology", 12 [3], 2011: pp. 418-43).

Quote: "This essay ... explores the question of how this ostensibly theological debate on the limits of prophetic intercession connected to a much broader political debate surrounding the sociology of sovereignty under conditions of political change and transition ... in early nineteenth-century India."

07 October 2011

Article: Incarnating the Money-Sign: Notes on an Implicit Theopolitics

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Article: Incarnating the Money-Sign: Notes on an Implicit Theopolitics

Just published: Devin Singh (Yale), "Incarnating the Money-Sign: Notes on an Implicit Theopolitics" ("Implicit Religion: Journal of the Centre for the Study of Implicit Religion and Contemporary Spirituality", 14 [2], 2011: pp. 129-40).

Quote: "Contrary to views of money's spontaneous emergence and efficacy, or ideas of its intrinsic worth, I present the understanding of money as an authoritatively instituted sign. ... Incarnational dynamics shed light on attempts at an enforced codification of reality by money's semiotic institution by the powers, and open up a space for potential critique."

Something prevents Google+ from linking to Equinox journal sites. A few weeks back, I contacted one of the editors of "Political Theology" about it, but the problem persists. Until this gets fixed, I will link to Google's cache instead of Equinox.

06 October 2011

Book: Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

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Book: Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture

A book that explores how "Catholicism was often presented in the U.S. not only as a threat to Protestantism but also as an enemy of democracy": Elizabeth Fenton (University of Vermont), "Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture" (Oxford University Press, March 2011).

Quote (chapter 3): "Antebellum captive nun tales such as Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures of the Hôtel Dieu Nunnery in Montreal (1836) present the Church as a master of argument and suggest that an antidemocratic group could gain control over public opinion through debate."

(chapter 6) "[F]igurations of a rigid and dogmatic Catholicism facilitated Adams’s and Twain’s parodies of democratic praxis. While both Adams and Twain rehearse anti-Catholic rhetoric typical of nineteenth-century U.S. public culture, they do so to critique the absolutism that they viewed as being central to the liberal tradition."

05 October 2011

Book: A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

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Book: A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

Just published: Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age" (Princeton University Press, October 2011).

Quote: "When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published - 'godless,' 'full of abominations,' 'a book forged in hell ... by the devil himself.' ... Spinoza became the first to argue that the Bible is not literally the word of God but rather a work of human literature ... and that religious authorities should have no role in governing a modern state."

Chapter: The Quarrel over Political Theology: A Look Back

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Chapter: The Quarrel over Political Theology: A Look Back

Just published in English: An expanded edition of "The Lesson of Carl Schmitt: Four Chapters on the Distinction between Political Theology and Political Philosophy" by Heinrich Meier (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), trans. Marcus Brainard, first published 1998. This edition (University of Chicago Press, October 2011) includes a new chapter, "The Quarrel over Political Theology: A Look Back", trans. Robert Berman (pp. 183-206[?]).

Also included in this edition is the short essay, "Afterword to the Second German Edition", trans. Robert Berman (pp. 177-82[?]).

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