Paul Kahn has written a remarkable meditation on Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology. A truly adequate response would undoubtedly require a…
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violence
Practical Matters call for submissions
The journal Practical Matters is now seeking submissions for the Spring 2012 issue on Violence and Peace. Practical Mattersis an…
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…
Implicated and enraged: An interview with Judith Butler
Judith Butler, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is among the leading social theorists alive today. Her most…
Have the jihadis lost the moral high ground to the rebels?
It has been a season of earthquakes, and the political ones in Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, and elsewhere in the Middle…
“Killing in the Name of. . .”
Ayça Çubukçu on state sovereignty and the political theology of humanitarian intervention with regard to the ongoing crisis in Libya,…
Bron Taylor: “The Roots of James Lee’s Rage against Civilization”
Bron Taylor explores the literary, spiritual, and ecological roots of Discovery Channel shooter James Lee's "rage against civilization."
On good, evil, and the role of religion
In response to statements made by Mark Juergensmeyer in his recent interview with Nathan Schneider, Vincent Pecora states that Juergensmeyer’s…
Cosmic war on a global scale: An interview with Mark Juergensmeyer
As director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mark Juergensmeyer…