Managing Editor:
Timothy Simpson University of North Florida
Editors:
Julie Clague University of Glasgow
Graeme Smith Chichester University
David True Wilson College
Review Editor
Tobias Winright, Saint Louis University
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Tobias Winright
Associate Professor of Theological Studies
Department of Theological Studies
Saint Louis University
3800 Lindell Boulevard, Adorjan Hall #124
Saint Louis, Missouri 63108 USA
The aims of the journal are to:
Recent Articles have included the following:
Rowan Williams
Convictions, Loyalties, and the Secular State
Gary Dorrien
Consolidating the Empire: Neoconservatism and the Politics of American Domination
Lisa Cahill
Liberalism in Progress – From Equal Rights to Global Participation
Susan L. Nelson
Pride, Sensuality and Han: Revisiting Sin from the Underside
Marcella Althaus-Reid
¿Bién Sonados? The Future of Mystical Connections in Liberation Theology
Larry Rasmussen
Was Reinhold Niebuhr wrong about Socialism?
Mona Siddiqui
Islam: Issues of Political Authority and Pluralism
Julia Sudo
Russian Nationalist Orthodox Theology: A New Trend in Political Life of Russia
William T. Cavanaugh
From One City to Two: Christian Reimagining of Political Space
Recent Special Issues include a dialogue with Michael Walzer on ‘Politics and Passion’ with contributions from Harlan Beckley, Gilbert Meilaender, David Novak, Linda Hogan, Duncan Forrester and Lisa Cahill.
Indexing & Abstracting
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Religious and Theological Abstracts
Publication: January, March, May, July, September, December
ISSN: 1462-317X (print)
ISSN: 1743-1719 (online)
Timothy Simpson University of North Florida
Editors:
Julie Clague University of Glasgow
Graeme Smith Chichester University
David True Wilson College
Review Editor
Tobias Winright, Saint Louis University
Send books for review to:
Tobias Winright
Associate Professor of Theological Studies
Department of Theological Studies
Saint Louis University
3800 Lindell Boulevard, Adorjan Hall #124
Saint Louis, Missouri 63108 USA
Peer Reviewers, 2009-2011
The Editors of Political Theology wish to thank the individuals who acted as peer reviewers during 2009-2011. Click here for details.
About Political Theology
Political Theology is a journal that investigates and examines religious and political issues. The journal is interdisciplinary, drawing on the disciplines of theology, religious studies, politics, philosophy, ethics, cultural studies, social theory and economics. As such, it aims to reflect the diversity of religious and theological engagements with public and political life. Articles are welcome from scholars, practioners and clergy that address religion and political life in all its variety. The journal has a review section which embraces reflections upon religion, theology, politcal theory, political biography, film and fiction.The aims of the journal are to:
- Deconstruct specific instances of political activity
- Reflect upon the mechanisms of power in civil life
- Examine the operation of alliances and coalitions, and the relationship betwen personal ambition and political vision
- Analyse theological paradigms employed by those engaged with political disclosures
- Explore power dynamics within and between nations
Recent Articles have included the following:
Rowan Williams
Convictions, Loyalties, and the Secular State
Gary Dorrien
Consolidating the Empire: Neoconservatism and the Politics of American Domination
Lisa Cahill
Liberalism in Progress – From Equal Rights to Global Participation
Susan L. Nelson
Pride, Sensuality and Han: Revisiting Sin from the Underside
Marcella Althaus-Reid
¿Bién Sonados? The Future of Mystical Connections in Liberation Theology
Larry Rasmussen
Was Reinhold Niebuhr wrong about Socialism?
Mona Siddiqui
Islam: Issues of Political Authority and Pluralism
Julia Sudo
Russian Nationalist Orthodox Theology: A New Trend in Political Life of Russia
William T. Cavanaugh
From One City to Two: Christian Reimagining of Political Space
Recent Special Issues include a dialogue with Michael Walzer on ‘Politics and Passion’ with contributions from Harlan Beckley, Gilbert Meilaender, David Novak, Linda Hogan, Duncan Forrester and Lisa Cahill.
Indexing & Abstracting
Academic Search Premier and Religion and Philosophy Collection, EBSCO Publishing
Religious and Theological Abstracts
Publication: January, March, May, July, September, December
ISSN: 1462-317X (print)
ISSN: 1743-1719 (online)
Recent Blog Entries
New Issue: 13.1 Released | |
| The editors of Political Theology are pleased to announce that the latest issue is now available on the web. Issue 13.1 (January 2012) features a guest editorial by Gerald J. Beyer of St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia who looks at the connections between today’s Occupy Wall Street movement and Poland’s Solidarity trade union movement of the early 1980s, and points to what this new activist turn on issues of social justice could signal for American political life. The editorial and the reviews section are – as always – open access. The issue also carries articles by Andrew Brower Latz, Thomas A. James, Joseph Ballan, Kristen Tobey and Patrik Hagman. | |
| Posted: 2012-02-03 | More... |
Lipstick on A Pig: the ECO and Its Plan to Split the PCUSA | |
| This is a schism. Just because it is being orchestrated by smart, tall-steeple pastors who are our friends and evangelical theologians whom we have all respected doesn’t make it any less of one. | |
| Posted: 2012-02-03 | More... |
The Future of Political Theology: Religious and Theological Perspectives | |
| Our new book, The Future of Political Theology: Religious and Theological Perspectives (Ashgate, 2012), is a collaborative work between several of the members of the International Research Network on Religion and Democracy (IRNRD), which also closely cooperates with Political Theology. In a certain sense, the volume constitutes a kind of sequel to our book, From Political Theory to Political [...] | |
| Posted: 2012-02-02 | More... |
Simon Critchley on “The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology” | |
| Religious truth is like troth, the experience of fidelity where one is affianced and then betrothed. What is true, then, is an experience of faith, and this is as true for agnostics and atheists as it is for theists. Those who cannot believe still require religious truth and a framework of ritual in which they can believe. At the core of Wilde’s remark is the seemingly contradictory idea of the faith of the faithless and the belief of unbelievers, a faith which does not give up on the idea of truth, but transfigures its meaning. | |
| Posted: 2012-02-01 | More... |
Politics of 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 | |
| “I have become all things to all people, so that I might by any means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings.” 1 Corinthians 9:22-23 In an election year the airwaves are replete with candidates who seek to be “all things to all [...] | |
| Posted: 2012-01-31 | More... |
Intro to a New Reader in Contemporary Political Theology | |
| We began work on this Reader with the realization that there was no recent collection of readings in contemporary political theology. Our moment is complex and difficult to come to grips with. It is characterized by God refusing to go away, with people of numerous faiths not taking the much-touted, purely secular politics lying down. Whether one sees this as a recent development (post-9/11, say) or the way things have always been depends largely on one’s perspective. Do the most pressing questions have to do with Christian theology’s inherent and ineradicable relevance to all things political (human well-being, the nature of power, and so on)? Or do they have to do with the reverse—the fundamentally theological nature of politics, even where religious questions have been thought most successfully to have been purged from it? It will take more than a reader to answer such questions, but collecting a wide variety of voices in one place can help us understand why we are now faced with them. | |
| Posted: 2012-01-30 | More... |
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