tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39410711453338311482024-03-13T14:09:07.237+01:00Political Theology AgendaThe Political Theology Agenda serves to disseminate information and facilitates the exchange on political theology across traditions.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.comBlogger360125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-42970061340245059062012-01-06T00:41:00.000+01:002012-01-06T00:41:58.610+01:00Book: The Future of Political Theology: Religious and Theological Perspectives<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/3esxHpEVViK">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Book: The Future of Political Theology: Religious and Theological Perspectives</b><br /><br />Just published: "The Future of Political Theology: Religious and Theological Perspectives", edited by Péter Losonczi (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Mika Luoma-aho (University of Lapland), and Aakash Singh (LUISS Guido Carli University), is yet another (contributed) volume contemplating ways forward for political theology (Ashgate, January 2012).<br /><br />Quote: "Recent shifts in the contemporary cultural, political, and religious landscape are engendering intensive attention concerning political theology. New trends and traditional ideas equally colour these movements. ... Including prominent essays on Judaic, Islamic, Buddhist and Christian perspectives, this book balances elements from post-modern theology with more classical as well as anti-post-modern approaches."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calcTitle=1&title_id=10219&edition_id=13662">The Future of Political Theology by Péter Losonczi, Mika Luoma-aho, Aakash Singh</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-69042273245935154282012-01-05T03:33:00.000+01:002012-01-05T03:33:20.445+01:00Book: The Triumph of Hate: The Political Theology of the Hitler Movement<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/WvksgvAGyy8">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Book: The Triumph of Hate: The Political Theology of the Hitler Movement</b><br /><br />Just published: Christopher Vasillopulos (Eastern Connecticut State University), "The Triumph of Hate: The Political Theology of the Hitler Movement" (University Press of America, January 2012).<br /><br />Quote: "Beginning with Paul's rejection of traditional Judaism, ... the author argues that the Final Solution was the Hitler movement's attempt to create Aryans out of Germans for the purpose of saving Europe from the materialism and individualism of the West, personified by Jews, both human and metaphorical."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.univpress.com/ISBN/9780761856719">Rowman.com: 9780761856719 - The Triumph of Hate: The Political Theology of the Hitler Movement</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-35875597445949995362011-12-20T02:48:00.000+01:002011-12-20T02:48:50.163+01:00Article: Development, ethics and theology: interdisciplinary connections and challenges<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/etyCw15eqYA">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Article: Development, ethics and theology: interdisciplinary connections and challenges</b><br /><br />Just published: Kjetil Fretheim (MF Norwegian School of Theology), "Development, ethics and theology: interdisciplinary connections and challenges" ("Journal of Global Ethics", 7 [3], 2011: pp. 303-13).<br /><br />Quote: "In this paper, I address the interdisciplinary character of development studies and ethics by discussing the relationship between Christian theology and development studies in general and development ethics in particular. I begin by presenting development theology, a kind of theology ... related to the better-known liberation theology".<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449626.2011.635681">Development, ethics and theology: interdisciplinary connections and challenges</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-12498740866086313242011-12-19T22:03:00.000+01:002011-12-19T22:03:16.547+01:00Job: Chancellor's Fellowship<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/6u9BBsUieBb">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Job: Chancellor's Fellowship</b><br /><br />The School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh offers a 5-year, full-time, tenure-track Chancellor's Fellowship to "early career scholar-teachers" with an interest in Christian Ethics and Practical Theology (including political theology).<br /><br />Also on offer are fellowships in Religious Studies and in World Christianity. Across the university, a total of 100 Chancellor's Fellowships are available.<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/divinity/news-events/news/chancellor-fellow">Chancellor's Fellowships | Divinity news | School of Divinity</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-3973413190735166882011-12-18T21:54:00.000+01:002011-12-18T21:54:27.971+01:00Book: The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/9hsxxZAVeJF">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Book: The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law</b><br /><br />Just published: The contributed volume, "The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law", edited by Leonard V. Kaplan and Rudy Koshar (both University of Wisconsin-Madison), is based on a 2008 conference of the same title (Lexington Books, December 2011).<br /><br />Quote: " <i>The Weimar Moment</i> 's evocative assault on closure and political reaction ... cannot but appeal to us today. This appeal - its historical grounding and content, its complexities and tensions, its variegated expressions across the networks of power and thought - is the essential context of the present volume, whose ... challenge ... is to provide the material to confront the present effectively".<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739140727">Rowman.com: 9780739140727 - The Weimar Moment: Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-44506467731221864212011-12-16T19:25:00.000+01:002011-12-16T19:25:10.273+01:00Book: The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship: Essays in the Line of Abraham Kuyper<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/WTefBgHhtU6">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Book: The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship: Essays in the Line of Abraham Kuyper</b><br /><br />Just published: Richard J. Mouw (Fuller Theological Seminary), "The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship: Essays in the Line of Abraham Kuyper" (Eerdmans, November 2011).<br /><br />Quote: "In thirteen essays Mouw explores and develops the Kuyperian perspective on key topics in Christian cultural discipleship, including public theology ... He deftly articulates an ecumenically enriched neo-Calvinist - or 'neo-Kuyperian' - perspective that appropriates and contextualizes the ideas and insights of this important theologian and statesman for new challenges in Christian thought and service."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/6698/the-challenges-of-cultural-discipleship.aspx">The Challenges of Cultural Discipleship - Richard J. Mouw : Eerdmans</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-41803292676461097142011-12-15T19:51:00.000+01:002011-12-15T19:51:50.113+01:00Book: Routledge Handbook of Political Islam<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/P4Wcpk6fe6g">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Book: Routledge Handbook of Political Islam</b><br /><br />Just published: Shahram Akbarzadeh (University of Melbourne) is the editor of a contributed volume titled "Routledge Handbook of Political Islam" (Routledge, December 2011).<br /><br />Quote: "[A] multidisciplinary overview of the phenomenon of political Islam, one of the key political movements of our time. Drawing on the expertise from some of the top scholars in the world it examines the main issues surrounding political Islam across the world, from aspects of Muslim integration in the West to questions of political legitimacy in the Muslim world."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415484732/">Routledge Handbook of Political Islam (Hardback) - Routledge</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-87953985046554384742011-12-15T01:27:00.000+01:002011-12-15T01:27:25.916+01:00Job: Operations Manager<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/MgzQrXE1xFP">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Job: Operations Manager</b><br /><br />The Quixote Center, "a multi-issue social justice organization ... rooted in the tradition of liberation theology and Catholic reform movements", based in College Park, MD, USA, is looking for an Operations Manager.<br /><br />Please follow the link for more details about this position.<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://quixote.org/blog/quixote-center-is-hiring-operations-manager/">Quixote Center Is Hiring Operations Manager |</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-66427012063673268082011-12-12T11:15:00.000+01:002011-12-12T11:15:24.392+01:00Article: Spanish Fascism as a Political Religion (1931-1941)<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/NSB9cNgaLqN">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Article: Spanish Fascism as a Political Religion (1931-1941)</b><br /><br />Just published: Zira Box (National University of Distance Education, Spain) and Ismael Saz (University of Valencia), "Spanish Fascism as a Political Religion (1931-1941)" ("Politics, Religion & Ideology", 12 [4], 2011: pp. 371-89).<br /><br />Quote: "Spanish Fascism was a political religion during the Republican period, that is, from the time of its consolidation during the early 1930s to the beginning of the Civil War. However - and this is the main analytical challenge - it was also one after July 1936, in spite of the fact that the formation of Franco's <i>Movimiento Nacional</i> imposed no small transformations upon it."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21567689.2011.624408">Spanish Fascism as a Political Religion (1931–1941)</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-64700361733511769692011-12-12T11:14:00.000+01:002011-12-12T11:14:18.826+01:00CFP: Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and "the Critique of Violence"<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/bGXkZ6EFCCS">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>CFP: Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and "the Critique of Violence"</b><br /><br />Papers on political theology are invited for a workshop on "Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and 'the Critique of Violence'", in the programme of the 13th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), to be held 2-6 July 2012 at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia. Deadline: 15 April 2012.<br /><br />Quote: "Papers will be invited on a range of possible topics, including but not limited to the following: ... Political Theology ... Benjamin and/or Agamben in relation to works by Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, ... G.W.F. Hegel, ... Hermann Cohen, ... Gershom Scholem, ... Carl Schmitt, ... Jacob Taubes, ... Emmanuel Lévinas, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou and others."<br /><br />Papers are to be submitted to the workshop chairs. Further information on all accepted workshops and a full call for papers are to be found on the conference website: <a href="http://issei2012.haifa.ac.il/">http://issei2012.haifa.ac.il/</a><br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://issei2012.haifa.ac.il/Moran.htm">THE 13th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-8529921651363597712011-12-10T16:04:00.000+01:002011-12-10T16:04:36.938+01:00Book: Theology in the Public Sphere: Public Theology as a Catalyst for Open Debate<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/XioFQLncWoF">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Book: Theology in the Public Sphere: Public Theology as a Catalyst for Open Debate</b><br /><br />Just published: Sebastian Kim (York St John University), "Theology in the Public Sphere: Public Theology as a Catalyst for Open Debate" (SCM Press, September 2011).<br /><br />Endorsement: "Drawing on contemporary examples from around the globe including India, Korea and South America, Professor Kim demonstrates how public theology is extending the church's core concerns for justice, community and the well being into the broader public sphere." (John Sentamu, Archbishop of York)<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.scmpress.co.uk/books/9780334043775/Theology-in-the-Public-Sphere#Description">Theology in the Public Sphere by Sebastian Kim</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-38567563015423677242011-12-07T17:49:00.000+01:002011-12-07T17:49:39.558+01:00CFP: Renaissance Borders<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/jHhthrw1pnp">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>CFP: Renaissance Borders</b><br /><br />A call for papers on "Renaissance Borders" and (early modern) political theology for the Annual Princeton Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference, Princeton University, 13-14 April 2012:<br /><br />"From the beginning, conceptualizations of the Renaissance have been concerned with borders: between the classical past and the modern present; between pagan and Christian; between the civilized and the barbarous. Even as the idea of the Renaissance has endured various critiques over the past half century, this attention to borders has only intensified. In current debates about secularization and periodization in Renaissance studies, the boundaries between past and present and between the sacred and the profane have taken on a newly charged intensity. And these period-specific border disputes relate to more general questions in the humanities today: the future of interdisciplinarity; the role of material culture in the study of art; political theology and the development of the liberal state; and Jacques Ranciere's reading of aesthetics as a 'distribution of the sensible.'<br /><br />"We invite graduate students from across the disciplines to submit abstracts addressing the issue of borders in the Renaissance, broadly conceived. Topics of interest might include:<br /><br />"- - National territory, identity, and art<br />- - Marginalia<br />- - Relations between the disciplines<br />- - Levels of style, genre, and class<br />- - Periodization<br />- - Secularization<br />- - City and country<br />- - Economic, political, and aesthetic distribution<br />- - Citizen, human, creature<br />- - Exceptions and emergencies<br /><br />"Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words to <a href="mailto:renaissanceborders@gmail.com">renaissanceborders@gmail.com</a> by February 1, 2012."</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-194930571139191922011-12-06T21:36:00.000+01:002011-12-06T21:36:53.381+01:00Book: To Kill Another: Homicide and Natural Law<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/Fksj2xHpnWH">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Book: To Kill Another: Homicide and Natural Law</b><br /><br />On the political theology of homicide: Graham J. McAleer (Loyola University Maryland), "To Kill Another: Homicide and Natural Law" (Transaction Publishers, October 2010).<br /><br />Quote: "Western theories of law have drifted steadily towards the privatization of homicide. Public acts of homicide like capital punishment are now viewed by many as barbaric, even for heinous crimes, while a private act of homicide like the (increasingly routine) starvation of comatose patients is viewed by many as a caring gesture both to patient and family. ... McAleer argues that humanitarianism is a false friend to those committed to rule of law. As a consequence, the problem of human vulnerability makes political theology an inescapable consideration for law."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.transactionpub.com/title/To-Kill-Another-978-1-4128-1131-6.html">To Kill Another</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-16034447190068385522011-12-06T21:33:00.000+01:002011-12-06T21:33:49.421+01:00Article: Citizens into wolves?: Carl Schmitt's fictive account of security<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/MjrnnTuNnsu">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Article: Citizens into wolves?: Carl Schmitt's fictive account of security</b><br /><br />Just published: Thomas Moore (University of Westminster), "Citizens into wolves?: Carl Schmitt's fictive account of security" ("Cooperation and Conflict", 46 [4], December 2011: pp. 502-20).<br /><br />Quote: "This article assesses the extent to which security regimes are the products of authorization in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Carl Schmitt. ... Schmitt's security regime is fictive, driven by colourful metaphor and political theology. By returning to classic questions of authorization - how a security regime authorizes itself - International Relations theory can examine the legitimation of security beyond an exclusively state-centric model."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://cac.sagepub.com/content/46/4/502.abstract">Citizens into wolves? Carl Schmitt’s fictive account of security</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-17135967064829584852011-12-02T15:28:00.001+01:002011-12-02T15:28:25.196+01:00CFP: The Bible, Zionism and Palestine: A conference to explore the role of the bible in theology and politics in Israel and Palestine today<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/88gGx7wV4en">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <b><br />CFP: The Bible, Zionism and Palestine: A conference to explore the role of the bible in theology and politics in Israel and Palestine today</b><br /><br />Paper proposals on, for example, "Palestinian liberation theology" and "religious Zionism" are invited for a conference to be hosted 24-26 May 2012 by the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Sheffield, under the theme, "The Bible, Zionism and Palestine: A conference to explore the role of the bible in theology and politics in Israel and Palestine today". Deadline: 1 March 2012.<br /><br />Quote: "We are welcoming contributions from all perspectives under four main headings: Antisemitism, Philosemitism and the Bible; The Bible and the Existence of Israel; Judaism, Christianity and Zionism; and the Bible and the Palestinians."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.thebiblezionismandpalestine.co.uk/callforpapers.htm">The Bible, Zionism and Palestine: A conference to explore the role of the bible in theology and politics in Israel and Palestine today</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-89861884499356854842011-12-01T15:29:00.000+01:002011-12-01T15:55:41.357+01:00CFP: Tradition, Place, and "Things Divine"<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/BhP8ev8p4hH">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a><br />
<b>CFP: Tradition, Place, and "Things Divine"</b><br />
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The Ciceronian Society invites paper proposals on "Social-Political Theology" and other subjects related to "Tradition, Place, and 'Things Divine'" for its second annual conference, taking place 29-31 March 2012 at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The call for papers does not mention a particular deadline.<br />
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Quote: "With respect to possible thinkers whose work might fit well with
the Ciceronian Society's concerns, they are legion. Here are just a
few: ... Charles Taylor, ... Stanely [sic] Hauerwas, ... Rene Girard,
G.K. Chesterton, ... Alasdair MacIntyre, ... Leo Strauss, ... Eric
Voegelin".<br />
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<a href="http://theciceroniansociety.com/conferences/">Conferences | The Ciceronian Society</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-7158160415328806282011-11-29T17:12:00.000+01:002011-11-29T17:12:06.807+01:00Article: French Laïcité and the Recent Reception of the German Secularization Debate into France<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/eyVHr1Yqote">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Article: French <i>Laïcité</i> and the Recent Reception of the German Secularization Debate into France</b><br /><br />Just published: Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (Columbia University), "French <i>Laïcité</i> and the Recent Reception of the German Secularization Debate into France" ("Politics, Religion & Ideology", 12 [4], 2011: pp. 433-47).<br /><br />Quote: "[B]eginning in the 1980s some leading French intellectuals turned their attention towards the German debate over secularization that Carl Schmitt initiated with his work <i>Political Theology</i> in the early 1920s. ... The second part of this article demonstrates ... the interest of French scholars who wish to reconceptualize the historical origins and developments of French <i>laïcité</i> in light of questions involving Islam, French identity, and the idea of Europe."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21567689.2011.624413">French Laïcité and the Recent Reception of the German Secularization Debate into France</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-71756366280704711232011-11-27T19:05:00.000+01:002011-11-27T19:05:56.129+01:00Article: Prophetically Political, Politically Prophetic: William Cavanaugh's "Theopolitical Imagination" as an Example of Walter Brueggemann's<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/hxfZB4yQhdY">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Article: Prophetically Political, Politically Prophetic: William Cavanaugh's "Theopolitical Imagination" as an Example of Walter Brueggemann's "Prophetic Imagination"</b><br /><br />Just published: Lisa P. Stephenson (Lee University), "Prophetically Political, Politically Prophetic: William Cavanaugh's 'Theopolitical Imagination' as an Example of Walter Brueggemann's 'Prophetic Imagination" ("Journal of Church & State", 53 [4], autumn 2011: pp. 567-86).<br /><br />Excerpt: "What does the political theology of a Protestant Old Testament scholar have to do with that of a Roman Catholic theologian? ... One of the primary reasons why Brueggemann's and Cavanaugh's political theologies are similar is because they are both operating with the same understanding of what the task of political theology is."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://jcs.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/4/567.extract">Prophetically Political, Politically Prophetic: William Cavanaugh's “Theopolitical Imagination” as an Example of Walter Brueggemann's<br /> “Prophetic Imagination”</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-14999951196784238962011-11-25T15:27:00.000+01:002011-11-25T15:27:54.395+01:00Articles: Meeting Opposites: The Political Theologies of Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt / Secret Agreements and Slight Adjustments<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/cqFoPZt8Rpr">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Articles: Meeting Opposites: The Political Theologies of Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt / Secret Agreements and Slight Adjustments: On Giorgio Agamben's Messianic Citations</b><br /><br />Just published: Marc de Wilde (University of Amsterdam), "Meeting Opposites: The Political Theologies of Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt" ("Philosophy & Rhetoric", 44 [4], 2011: pp. 363-81).<br /><br />Quote: "Challenging existing interpretations, this article shows how the political theologies of Benjamin and Schmitt are not static but developed in the course of their dialogue, in which both authors respond to each other's criticism by changing and correcting their own positions in significant ways."<br /><br />The author of another article on Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben just asked me to post a note: Jason Thomas McKinney (University of Toronto), "Secret Agreements and Slight Adjustments: On Giorgio Agamben's Messianic Citations" ("The Journal of Religion", 91 [4], October 2011: pp. 496-518).<br /><br />Excerpt: "I would like to critically examine some of Agamben's citations of Paul, Benjamin, and a few others. I want to argue that in certain cases both Paul and Benjamin are ultimately misread. These errors are, to be sure, more strategic than careless ..., the deployment of one form of messianism against another."<br /><br />For the latter article, follow this link: <a href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/660903">http://www.jstor.org/pss/10.1086/660903</a><br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/philosophy_and_rhetoric/v044/44.4.de-wilde.html">Project MUSE - Philosophy and Rhetoric - Meeting Opposites: The Political Theologies of Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-32990853746600299752011-11-23T16:40:00.000+01:002011-11-23T16:40:39.651+01:00Article: Political Theology in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/fEPrhnJXdbg">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Article: Political Theology in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw</b><br /><br />Just published: Jayme M. Yeo (Rice University), "Political Theology in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw" ("Literature and Theology", 25 [4], December 2011: pp. 393-406).<br /><br />Quote: "Richard Crashaw is not normally considered a political poet. And yet, he wrote a number of early poems on the British monarchy ... This article demonstrates that the theology of 'The Flaming Heart' informs a deeply political project, in which mystical union with God is reimagined as a fundamental encounter with the other that forms the basis for an ideal society."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://litthe.oxfordjournals.org/content/25/4/393.short">Political Theology in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-39033166571360708942011-11-23T12:32:00.000+01:002011-11-23T12:32:40.850+01:00Book: An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/Yb8gRsigecL">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Book: An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology</b><br /><br />Just published: "An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology", edited by Craig Hovey (Ashland University), William T. Cavanaugh (DePaul University), and Jeffrey Bailey (Cambridge), translators not named (Eerdmans, November 2011).<br /><br />Quote: "Given that the locus of Christianity is undeniably shifting to the global South, this volume uniquely integrates key voices from Africa, Asia, and Latin America with central texts from Europe and North America on such major subjects as church and state, gender and race, and Christendom and postcolonialism. ... [A]n ideal primary-source introduction to contemporary political theology".<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/6440/an-eerdmans-reader-in-contemporary-political-theology.aspx">An Eerdmans Reader in Contemporary Political Theology - Craig Hovey, William T. Cavanaugh, Jeffrey Bailey : Eerdmans</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-1918720168246047452011-11-22T22:00:00.000+01:002011-11-22T22:00:49.355+01:00Book: Church, Gospel, and Empire: How the Politics of Sovereignty Impregnated the West<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/bpWu8QMfFTj">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Book: Church, Gospel, and Empire: How the Politics of Sovereignty Impregnated the West</b><br /><br />Just published: Roger Haydon Mitchell (Lancaster University), "Church, Gospel, and Empire: How the Politics of Sovereignty Impregnated the West" (Wipf and Stock, November 2011).<br /><br />Endorsements: "The book lays down a challenge of enormous audacity to previous accounts of secularism as the product of modernity, offering a new political conception of the genesis of modernity. It is a major contribution to contemporary Christian political theology". (Graham Ward, University of Manchester)<br /><br />"In this powerful, controversial, and passionately argued book, Roger Haydon Mitchell offers a genealogy of political theology - its past, its present, and, most importantly, its future." (Arthur Bradley, Lancaster University)<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="https://wipfandstock.com/store/Church_Gospel_and_Empire_How_the_Politics_of_Sovereignty_Impregnated_the_West">Wipf and Stock Publishers</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-18721615081346353442011-11-21T17:34:00.000+01:002011-11-21T17:34:21.917+01:00Article: Toward a Practical Black Theology and Liberation Ethic: An Alternative African-American Perspective<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/4TUUSqyWqQB">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Article: Toward a Practical Black Theology and Liberation Ethic: An Alternative African-American Perspective</b><br /><br />On "Black Theology for the post-Civil Rights era": Mark Gawaine Harden (Bethel University), "Toward a Practical Black Theology and Liberation Ethic: An Alternative African-American Perspective" ("Black Theology: An International Journal", 9 [1], 2011: pp. 35-55).<br /><br />Quote: "This essay utilizes critical analysis, reflections, and observations to derive at a method that leads to a relevant and useful Black theology that may bridge individual life practices in the context of the Black church. ... The author argues that action, beliefs, and the context are the necessary sources for theological reflection ... grounded in the African-American experience."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.blacktheologyjournal.com/BT/article/view/7560">Harden</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-18874477906281023122011-11-21T17:31:00.000+01:002011-11-21T17:31:48.482+01:00Article: Political Theology Ten Years After 9/11<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/jbBbTV4JQWi">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Article: Political Theology Ten Years After 9/11</b><br /><br />Political theology, multidisciplinary and interreligious: Julie Clague (University of Glasgow), "Political Theology Ten Years After 9/11" ("Political Theology", 12 [5], 2011: pp. 645-59).<br /><br />Quote: "'Political Theology Ten Years After 9/11' examines the nature of the discourse of political theology before 9/11, and discusses its tendencies to parochialism and denominationalism. In the post-9/11 context, new more inclusive, cross-cutting discussions are required by those who work in the field".<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.politicaltheology.com/PT/article/view/11394">Clague</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941071145333831148.post-74197602182479647482011-11-21T17:29:00.000+01:002011-11-21T17:29:29.773+01:00Article: Religion, Politics and Liberation: A Dialogue between Gustavo Gutiérrez, the 14th Dalai Lama and Gianni Vattimo<a href="https://plus.google.com/109507108125539761871/posts/8dgD2k49Hrk">Erich Kofmel - Google+</a> <div><b>Article: Religion, Politics and Liberation: A Dialogue between Gustavo Gutiérrez, the 14th Dalai Lama and Gianni Vattimo</b><br /><br />A liberation theologian, a Buddhist, and a nihilist: Mario I. Aguilar (University of St Andrews), "Religion, Politics and Liberation: A Dialogue between Gustavo Gutiérrez, the 14th Dalai Lama and Gianni Vattimo" ("Political Theology", 12 [1], 2011: pp. 144-66).<br /><br />Quote: "Gustavo Gutiérrez, the 14th Dalai Lama and the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo ... have made an enormous contribution to ... the practice of religion and politics centred on the poor ... This paper argues that the practice of a religion of love and a compassionate politics stressing commonalities rather than differences have a lot to offer to a contemporary practice and critical reflection on political theology."<br /><br /></div><div><div><a href="http://www.politicaltheology.com/PT/article/view/10440">Aguilar</a></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18288284466189569031noreply@blogger.com0