Political theology has emerged as an enormously energetic, creative way of exploring the complex relationships 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 a suspicion of the secular. Among other things, 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 by 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 Vizcaíno
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Political Theology in Riotous Times / Alex Dubilet and Vincent W. Lloyd
- Part 1. Expanded Horizons in Critical Theory
- 1. From Negation to Critique: Adorno on Transcendence / Agata Bielik-Robson
- 2. Political Theology’s Antagonisms: Between Stasis and Gnosis / Alex Dubilet
- 3. Exchange Beyond Exchange: Kōjin Karatani and the Persistence of the Religious / Martin Shuster
- 4. Keeping Life Living: Thinking with Michel Henry / Inese Radzins
- 5. Passionate Thinking: Isabelle Stengers and Political Theology / Ada S. Jaarsma
- 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 Odabaei
- 7. The Political as Method: Toward a Postcolonial Political Theology of Islam / Aseel Najib
- 8. Postsecular Philosophy and Decolonization as a Political-Theological Struggle / Rafael Vizcaíno
- 9. Political Theology and Religious Criticism: B. R. Ambedkar and His Contemporaries / Prathama Banerjee
- 10. Cosmic Delegitimation: Toward a Political Theology of Scale / Kirill Chepurin
- Part 3. Race, Blackness, and Modernity
- 11. Rethinking Political Theology as Faith, Poesis, and Praxis / George Shulman
- 12. On Black Study and Political Theology / James Edward Ford III
- 13. The Science of the Word: Sylvia Wynter, Political Theology, and Human Hybridity / David Kline
- 14. Wounded or Healing? Black Feminism and Political Theology / Vincent W. Lloyd
- Part 4. Itineraries in Feminism and Gender
- 15. Finding Air: Biomythologies of Breath / Beatrice Marovich
- 16. Sovereign Storytelling: A Political Theology of Bad Intentions / Dana Lloyd
- 17. Toward an Intersectional Genealogical Method: Silvia Federici as a Paradigm for Political Theology / Adam Kotsko
- 18. Political Theology’s Gender Trouble / Siobhan Kelly
- 19. Tabitha’s Trauma: Christian Nationalism, Centrist Jeremiad, and the Reconstruction of the American Family / Lucia Hulsether
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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