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Political Theology Reimagined

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Political theology has emerged as an enormously energetic, creative way of exploring the complex relationship between religion, politics, and culture around the world. Political Theology Reimagined centers decolonial, Black, queer, feminist, and Marxist modes of critical practice to offer a cutting-edge vision of the field that foregrounds a political theology animated by both a fascination with and suspicion of the secular. Among other topics, contributors explore how religious ideas, practices, and imaginations are inflected by anti-Blackness, patriarchy, and colonial histories, theorize anew the status of secularization narratives, probe the universality and translatability of conceptual abstractions, and experiment with the powers of genealogy and speculation. In short, they grapple with religion and critique in all their complexity, opening new itineraries in political theology by transforming its fundamental theoretical coordinates. Traversing diverse sites, from South Asia to the Middle East to Indigenous North America, and working across diverse scales, from the national to the planetary to the cosmic, this volume models the future of political theology pairing rigorous critique with a commitment to collective liberation. Contributors. Prathama Banerjee, Agata Bielik-Robson, Kirill Chepurin, Alex Dubilet, James Edward Ford III, Lucia Hulsether, Basit Kareem Iqbal, Ada S. Jaarsma, Siobhan Kelly, David Kline, Adam Kotsko, Dana Lloyd, Vincent W. Lloyd, Beatrice Marovich, Aseel Najib, Milad Odabaei, Inese Radzins, George Shulman, Martin Shuster, Rafael VizcaIno
Alex Dubilet is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Vincent W. Lloyd is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University.
"In this bounteous volume, political theology takes stock of its pasts and of its futures. It reveals itself as a discourse of concepts but also of names. What's in a name? What indeed are the names of political theology? What paleonymy, what onomatology sustain it? What names must it invent, still? Old and new, necessary and unexpected, proper and (un)common - an indispensable nomenclature emerges from each of these rich essays." - Gil Anidjar, author of On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal "This important volume expands beyond the usual connection between political theology and Christian doctrine, tracking how previously theological concepts continue to morph into various secular guises. The contributors demonstrate that political theology is a powerful resource by which to both recognize and challenge the modalities of politics and social life that are practiced in our own time. The reimagination that the title points to is not so much a way to start political theology all over again but to focus on its subversive and radical potential." - James R. Martel, author of Anarchist Prophets: Disappointing Vision and the Power of Collective Sight
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