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Catholic Re-Visions

Ora et Labora: Ritualizations of Worship and Justice

In practice, their liturgies demonstrated a complex interweaving of different social justice commitments throughout the liturgy, while simultaneously, the community described only limited connections between their liturgy and the social issues they addressed as a community.

Theological Niceties and Complicities in Economic Theology

The society of commodity producers that Marx described continues to expand its mystifying in a world that commodifies all things, including the eucharist, the activism of indigenous communities, and the future.

Missing the Message?: How to Resist, not Recapitulate

It is a prudent caution not to fall prey to our own confirmation biases when reading Luke’s gospel. In today’s world of political distraction and power plays, Jesus’s central message of love and liberation is as necessary and life-giving as ever before.

Call for Papers: Political Theology Network Conference 2025 – DEADLINE EXTENDED

Consider submitting to one of six conference streams for PTN Conference 2025 from October 23-26, 2025 in Nashville, TN. Proposals are due June 3, 2025.

Call for Papers: Political Theology Network Conference 2025

Consider submitting to one of six conference streams for PTN Conference 2025 from October 23-26, 2025 in Nashville, TN

PTNCON25: Call for Seminar Streams

The Political Theology Network is hosting our fifth in-person conference, which will be held in Nashville, TN, from October 23-26, 2025. See details below!

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Catholic Re-Visions

Lived Liturgy?

Liturgy constitutes a space and a time in which theopolitical power circulates across many scales, with all the solidarities, tensions, conflicts, interpretations, appropriations, and subversions that this entails. The papers gathered here explore the lived reality of liturgical practices as they are enacted in various contexts and by diverse people, both reproducing and stretching the boundaries of Catholicism.

Symposium on Video Essays

While in recent years there has certainly been a shift towards more thoughtful and creative presentations of academic ideas within the various contexts of academic life, academics, mostly still exclusively trained in text-centered methods and deliveries, are still grappling with a contemporary culture dominated by images and digital technology that has profoundly disrupted the standard traditions of academic expression.