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{"title":"The Debt of Time and the Secularization of Guilt","authors":"Antonio Cerella","doi":"10.1080/1462317X.2022.2143140","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2143140","url":null,"abstract":"Debt and Guilt is a work of rare depth and texture, which marks, in the wake of Max Weber ’ s magisterial Protestant Ethic , a decisive step forward in the study of the relationship between religious conceptions and economic practices. Elettra Stimilli masterfully articulates the long and tortuous genealogical path traced by these categories in Western thought, showing their relationship with mechanisms of power and modes of domination. The linear structure of the book cracks open, almost imperceptibly, in a passage, which I would like to examine here","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49330316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Young Kings: Marcus Rashford and Theopolitical Charisma","authors":"V. Napolitano","doi":"10.1080/1462317X.2022.2133804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2133804","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT\u0000 In the aftermath of the UK loss in the 2020 Euro Football Cup, I analyze a theopolitical force of contemporary black football players, as a sovereignty from below epitomized by the figure of Marcus Rashford. Given his meteoric rise in British culture and his prominent social activism against child hunger, Rashford, among the other targets of racial abuse, is a particularly apt exemplar. By integrating anthropological ideas on theopolitics, totemism, charisma, and the sacrality of substance, this paper asks how the iconography, life histories, and social media interventions of young, kingly, Black (mainly Christian) athletes, effect a theopolitical force as an elastic movement of self-referentiality and sovereignty from below that is agonistic rather than antagonistic to the state. Specifically, it explores how these black footballers enliven an exemplar of theopolitical sovereignty that does not decide on letting live or making it die, but on doing a work of undoing injustice.","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44926704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Imperialism of the Mind: Decolonial Theological Approaches to Traumatic Memory","authors":"S. Edwards","doi":"10.1080/1462317X.2022.2139227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2139227","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Frantz Fanon’s call to clear the “rot” of mental imperialism takes on even greater importance in light of emerging neuroscientific research regarding intergenerational trauma. Read through a decolonial theological lens, epigenetic trauma reveals that basic assumptions regarding the independent human person occlude foundational truths. Individuals are fundamentally connected to others in a way that can create ground for a thicker description of “shared humanity” and for liberatory practices of memory. Political theology provides a necessary space to forge theoretical and practical connections between the personal and political natures of race, trauma, and god-talk that are essential to move toward justice. Exploring multiple aspects of being – biological, decolonial, theological, future – I suggest that building communities of Christian enfleshed counter-memory is one potential path toward decolonizing theology and addressing the wounds of colonization through social transformation.","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45689277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Virtue and Power: The Narrative of Reason and the Reasoning of Public Narratives in the Construction of a New Politics of the Collective Good","authors":"Daniel P. Rhodes","doi":"10.1080/1462317X.2022.2137924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2137924","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This essay argues for a politics constructed on a refined version of virtue ethics that is more radically democratic and thereby more directly concerned with imbalances and asymmetries of power. Beginning with a critique of MacIntyre's neo-Aristotelian account, I contend that he does not sufficiently tend to the full dynamic between rationality and power thereby occluding key democratic practices needed to counter the dominion of modern capitalism. While he offers the prospect of social protection and integration, his virtue ethics fails sufficiently to incorporate emancipatory movement, a problem I trace to his dismissal of Periclean isegoria and his truncated narrative of the oppression inherent to capitalism. Returning to this Periclean practice, I look to the example of Zapatista Kuxlejal politics to develop a virtue ethics that incorporates social integration with emancipation through receptive self-making in public narrative, collective governance in mutual obedience, and a participatory pedagogy of the collective good.","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46921091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theorizing Political Martyrdom: Politics, Religion, Death, and Memory","authors":"Andrew R. Murphy","doi":"10.1080/1462317X.2022.2125118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2125118","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT From its emergence in early Christianity to its invocation in twenty-first century debates, martyrdom has always highlighted the complex relationship between politics, religion, death, and memory. A specifically political notion of martyrdom beyond the world's faith traditions would facilitate the concept’s more capacious application and analysis. Political martyrdom, I argue, consists of several components: (1) a death, occurring in what we might call “unnatural” circumstances, connected in some way to an individual’s identity(ies) or political commitments; (2) consecration of that death by a community or sub-community; and (3) transmission of accounts of that death across time, through processes of commemoration. This essay illuminates the ways by which political communities enshrine certain deaths in their collective memory, where they subsequently contribute to communal solidarity, identity formation, and political mobilization. I conclude by reflecting on how political martyrdom offers new insights into the intersection of politics, religion, death, and memory.","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46355113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"India’s Little Political Tradition","authors":"Anastasia Piliavsky","doi":"10.1080/1462317x.2022.2101828","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317x.2022.2101828","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47640717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Trump’s Gender Trouble","authors":"Alyson Cole","doi":"10.1080/1462317X.2022.2110584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2110584","url":null,"abstract":"Shell-Shocked: Feminist Criticism After Trump features all the qualities that distinguish Bonnie Honig’s writing – sharp, rich analysis, served up with an immense helping of biting humor. Her texts nourish the imagination, reorient our thinking, and enable us to see anew what has been hiding in plain sight. This is a collection of “forensic and fabulistic work,” of close readings, scrutinizing minor details, and creatively forging “wild connections.” While the essays cover a diverse range of topics, each reflects back on the mechanisms and repercussions of “disaster patriarchy,” Honig’s feminist refinement of Naomi Klein’s account of “disaster capitalism” in The Shock Doctrine; its neglected misogynistic twin, if you will. Working in tandem, both serve to depoliticize through a double move of saturation and desensitization, a process akin to George W. Bush’s “shock and awe” approach to warfare. To further clarify the dynamics of disaster patriarchy, Honig employs domestic violence as an exemplar and a metaphor. The stages of DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse the positions of Victim and Offender) elucidate how the disorientation that Trump deployed (as abusive leader/man/husband/father) served to silence criticism, evade accountability, and thwart political action. Where Hannah Arendt insisted we must “think what we are doing,”Honig revises this imperative for our current moment: we must first understand what has been done to us. The essays in this volume delineate what we’ve endured, and then illuminate the sensory adjustments and collective paths to undoing it. Inspired by Honig’s intervention, and following her practice of feminist criticism, this essay endeavors to extend her insights by pulling on three entangled threads from Shell-Shocked on the themes of “ambigendering,” the gendered politics of vulnerability, and maternal politics.","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47253370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forensics and Fabulation: Anti-Shock Politics and its Judaic Inspirations","authors":"B. Honig","doi":"10.1080/1462317X.2022.2110587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2110587","url":null,"abstract":"on U.S. political and pop cultural","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48729209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Schein to Skein: Feminist Criticism After Shell-Shocked","authors":"Davide Panagia","doi":"10.1080/1462317X.2022.2110583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2110583","url":null,"abstract":"In the subfield of political theory, or in the hallways of its disciplinary home department political science, one does not speak of “the political critic” in the ways in which one speaks of literary critics or aesthetic criticism as professional research activities. Political science course offerings do not include “political criticism” as a topic, and newly graduated PhDs would likely not consider (or be advised to not consider) listing “political criticism” as an area of research expertise in their job applications. More notably, “criticism” is not part of the canon of concepts of theWestern tradition of political theory, essentially contested or otherwise. In the various handbooks and encyclopedia of political thought one has on hand one finds a compendium of topics qualified with the adjective “critical” (as in critical theory, or critical race theory, or critical realism) but not criticism or political criticism. Thankfully, Bonnie Honig is a different type of political theorist. Building on her scholarship in agonistic politics and radical democratic theory (one should say her “innovation” or “invention” of this field of research, as it hadn’t really concretized prior to her publishing Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics), Honig has in recent years given sustained attention to aesthetic questions that weigh upon issues of political theory, and more specifically still on the practices, activities, and media of political criticism. She is a political critic; more precisely she is a feminist political critic. She leans on ancient Greek women, on the modern (gothic) novel, and on contemporary cinema and television, to innovate practices of feminist political criticism that are not reducible to the gaslighting cant of the law of non-contradiction. Honig’s scholarship offers (among many things) a canon of feminist political criticism rooted in the conceit that political agonism pluralizes not just our politics, but our critical sensibilities such that an appeal to the presumed infallibility of non-contradiction as an apriori of critical thinking will always feel politically and aesthetically inadequate. Honig’s own critical dispositif, that I wish to unravel in these pages, is one of her major contributions – in her work more generally, but especially in Shell Shocked – because it offers an important insight about the relationship between women, politics, criticism, and authority: the epistemological privilege of the law of non-contradiction can’t work for feminist political criticism because women are a contradiction in a patriarchal world where gender is “an apparatus of power.”","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41296744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Detail Radicals: Gothic Feminism, Macho Populism, and the Spectral Body of the Queen","authors":"Diego Rossello","doi":"10.1080/1462317X.2022.2110586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317X.2022.2110586","url":null,"abstract":"Bonnie Honig ’ s book, Shell-Shocked: Feminist Criticism after Trump , is a sharp, urgent, and sophisticated critique of Trumpism ’ s many facets. But it is not any kind of critique: it is a feminist critique of Trumpism ’ s policies, gestures, a ff ects, and legacies. Suggestive in Honig ’ s book is the proposal of a speci fi c type of intense sensorial disposition that feminist criticism can work with and through; a kind of alternative epistemology of awareness where psychic stability and a sense of reality depend upon a heightened attention to detail. Attention to detail links the stories of public writing reunited and reworked in the book. Following the example of Penelope in Homer ’ s Odyssey , who promises to choose a “ suitor ” after fi nishing a shroud but gains time by weaving during the day and unweaving at night, Honig fi nds a loose thread in the fabric of the political and pulls, until the fabric comes undone. To undo the fabric of Trump ’ s macho populism, Honig returns to the female gothic perspective, a recurring motif in her work. In what follows, I would like to address the female gothic perspective in Shell-Shocked by focusing on three main themes: (1) the female gothic ’ s peculiar attentiveness to detail that sees things others cannot see, including ghosts (2) the link between the gothic genre, as such, political theology, and contemporary theoretical writing on the American presidency; (3) the (gothic) promise of feminist transnationalism in the Americas.","PeriodicalId":43759,"journal":{"name":"Political Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42574757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}