The contributors to Political Theology Reimagined center 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.
Recenzijas
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. Whats 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
Introduction: Political Theology in Riotous Times / Alex Dubilet and
Vincent W. Lloyd 1
Part
1. Expanded Horizons in Critical Theory
1. From Negation to Critique: Adorno on Transcendence / Agata Bielik-Robson
31
2. Poltical Theologys Antagonisms: Between Stasis and Gnosis / Alex Dubilet
47
3. Exchange Beyond Exchange: Kjin Karatani and the Persistence of the
Religious / Martin Shuster 64
4. Keeping Life Living: Thinking with Michel Henry / Inese Radzins 79
5. Passionate Thinking: Isabelle Stengers and Political Theology / Ada S.
Jaarsma 96
Part
2. The Colonial, the Planetary, and the Cosmic
6. For a Historical Grammar of Concepts: Thinking About Political Theology
with Talal Asad / Basit Kareem Iqbal and Milad Obadaei 115
7. The Political as Method: Toward a Postcolonial Political Theology of
Islam / Aseel Najib 128
8. Postsecular Philosophy and Decolonization as a Political-Theological
Struggle / Rafael VizcaĶno 142
9. Political Theology and Religious Criticism: B. R. Ambedkar and His
Contemporaries / Prathama Banerjee 156
10. Cosmic Delegitimation: Toward a Political Theology of Scale / Kirill
Chepurin 173
Part
3. Race, Blackness, and Modernity
11. Rethinking Political Theology as Faith, Poesis, and Praxis / George
Shulman 193
12. On Black Study and Political Theology / Jaes Edward Ford III 210
13. The Science of the Word: Sylvia Wynter, Political Theology, and Human
Hybridity / David Kline 226
14. Wound or Healing? Black Feminism and Political Theology / Vincent W.
Lloyd 242
Part
4. Itineraries in Feminism and Gender
15. Finding Air: Biomythologies of Breath / Beatrice Marovich 261
16. Sovereign Storytelling: A Political Theology of Bad Intentions / Dana
Lloyd 275
17. Toward an Intersectional Genealogical Method: Silvia Federici as a
Paradigm for Political Theology / Adam Kotsko 290
18. Political Theologys Gender Trouble / Siobhan Kelly 304
19. Tabithas Trauma: Christian Nationalism, Centrist Jeremiad, and the
Reconstruction of the American Family / Lucia Hulsether 319
Bibliography 337
Contributors 369
Index 371
Alex Dubilet is Assistant Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
Vincent W. Lloyd is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University.
