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The Brink

Book Forum: Response

Even the highly professionalized logos of scholarly discourse does not just suffer from logoclastic dynamics but is positively animated by them.

By Elad Lapidot
Virgin Mary, Virgin Territory

This essay is part of a book forum on Immaculate Misconceptions by Amey Victoria Adkins-Jones.

By Zoe Boyle
The Victimhood of Kings

Psalm 2 presents the ways in which the powerful paint themselves as simultaneous victor and victim–and, more hopefully, it depicts a God who interrupts these fictions.

By Isaac Kuhl-Schlegel

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What Is African Political Theology?

We need to critique the fact that political theology has turned into ideology in Africa.

By Chammah Kaunda
Jan 22: African Political Theology Webinar + Resources
By Vincent Lloyd
Political Theology Virtual Manuscript Workshop
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Symposia

Critical Theory for Political Theology 3.0

Book Forum: Immaculate Misconceptions

Authors review Immaculate Misconceptions, the first major theological work on the Black Madonna.

By Vincent Lloyd & Zoe Boyle & Héctor Varela Rios & TJ Bryant & Nicole Symmonds
Symposium: Walter Benjamin and Theology
By Political Theology Network & Mario Mikhail & Aleix Muñoz Gómez & Yonathan Busquila Listik & Cristina Grigore
Book Forum: The Politics of Not Speaking by Elad Lapidot

This forum reflects on Elad Lapidot’s The Politics of Not Speaking. In contrast to the common understanding of politics as a domain of speaking, this work reveals an alternative tradition where the spoken word fails, collapses, breaks (i.e., a politics of not speaking).

By Elad Lapidot

ASSEMBLY Podcast

S4 E9: Why Synthetic Religions? On Nature, Culture, and the Political Struggle to Slow Down Time
By Amanda Furiasse
S4 E8 – Religion after the Outrage
By Amanda Furiasse
S 4 E 7- Adaptive Reuse
By Sher Tareen