To grasp the deep architecture of the political today, therefore, is to venture into the theological domains of Christology and…
The politics of the atonement
American politics
Mirror, mirror on the wall
After the manner of psychoanalysis, political theology reflects the larger, darker, contours that liberalism—the discourse of the modern nation-state—fails to…
Pluralizing political theology
My claim and concern is not only that Kahn is captured by Schmitt’s particular view of political theology as a…
Political theology and liberalism
When modern revolutionaries took up the task of translating the felt meaning of political revolution into a constitutional order of…
Kentucky approves state funding to expand Creation Museum
Should the state be in the business of funding private religious projects, even if they could boost the well-being of…
Matters of Ultimate Concern
As the 2012 election season draws ever closer, Scott McLemee considers the essays collected in The Power of Religion in…
O is for Ozarks
O is for Oprah. O is for Ozarks. Can the second embrace the first? Though Lofton stays away from the…
Race, orthodoxy, and “real” Islam
More than anything, the Good (Orthodox) Muslim-Bad (Black) Muslim paradigm reveals the media’s seemingly willful ignorance of the longstanding diversity…
Oprah, the Rorschach test
Focusing on Oprah as an icon/inkblot, we can use our reactions to her as a Rorschach test: What do we…
Newt Gingrich’s secular, Islamic America
Matt Yglesias parses Newt Gingrich's (only) ostensibly contradictory statement, that "if we do not decisively win the struggle over the…