Political Theology on Edge: Ruptures of Justice and Belief in the Anthropocene - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0823298124 ISBN 13 : 9780823298129

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2021

Synopsis

In Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge--that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also a form of eschatology that forces us to imagine new ways of being religious and political in our cohabitation of a fragile and shared planet. Each of the essays in this volume attends to how climate change and our ecological crises intersect and interact with more traditional themes of political theology.

While the tradition of political theology is often associated with philosophical responses to the work of Carl Schmitt--and the critical attempts to disengage religion from his rightwing politics--the contributors to this volume are informed by Schmitt but not limited to his perspectives. They engage and transform political theology from the standpoint of climate change, the politics of race, and non-Christian political theologies including Islam and Sikhism. Important themes include the Anthropocene, ecology, capitalism, sovereignty, Black Lives Matter, affect theory, continental philosophy, destruction, and suicide. This book features world renowned scholars and emerging voices that together open up the tradition of political theology to new ideas and new ways of thinking.

Contributors: Gil Anidjar, Balbinder Singh Bhogal, J. Kameron Carter, William E. Connolly, Kelly Brown Douglas, Seth Gaiters, Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Winfred Goodwin, Lawrence Hillis, Mehmet Karabela, Michael Northcott, Austin Roberts, Noëlle Vahanian, Larry L. Welborn

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Clayton Crockett is a professor and the director of Religious Studies at the University of Central Arkansas. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Derrida After the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism, and a co-editor of Doing Theology in the Age of Trump: A Critical Report on Christian Nationalism. He is a fellow of Westar Institute's Seminar on God and the Human Future.

Catherine Keller is a professor of constructive theology at the Theological School of Drew University. Her books include Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglements (2014) and Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public (2018).

Gil Anidjar teaches in the Department of Religion and the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He is currently completing a manuscript titled Sparta and Gaza: The Tradition of Destruction; sections of it have been published here and there.

Balbinder Singh Bhogal is a professor in religion and the holder of the Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Chair in Sikh Studies at Hofstra University, NY. His primary research interests are South Asian religions and cultures specializing in the Sikh tradition, particularly the Guru Granth Sahib, its philosophy and exegesis. Secondary research interests include critical theory, political mysticism, and decolonial, animal, and affect studies.

J. Kameron Carter is a professor of religious studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he has additional appointments in the English, Gender Studies, and African American and African Diaspora Studies departments. He is co-director of IU's Center for Religion and the Human. His work focuses on questions of race, empire, and ecology as matters of political theology and the sacred. Carter is the author of Race: A Theological Account (Oxford University Press, 2008), the editor of Religion and the Futures of Blackness (a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, 2013) as well as The Matter of Black Religion: Thinking with Charles H. Long (a special issue of the journal American Religion, 2021), and the author of the forthcoming book, The Anarchy of Black Religion (Duke University Press).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823298124
• ISBN 13: 9780823298129
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Crockett Clayton, Keller Catherine
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible