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Partition as Oedipal Tragedy A Conversation between Bratya Basu and Milinda Banerjee 分裂是俄狄浦斯悲剧——布拉蒂亚·巴苏与米琳达·班纳吉的对话
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Political Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-25 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2148431
Milinda Banerjee
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Partition and/as Political Theology: Art, Resistance, and Peacebuilding in India and Northern Ireland 分裂和/作为政治神学:印度和北爱尔兰的艺术、抵抗和和平建设
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Political Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-24 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2148429
Milinda Banerjee, Méadhbh Mcivor
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On a Provisional Finitude of Indebtedness 论债务的暂时有限性
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Political Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-18 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2143138
V. Napolitano
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Indebting and Guilting as Apparatuses of Temporalization: A Response to Elettra Stimilli’s Debt and Guilt 作为时间化工具的负债与内疚:对埃莉特拉·斯蒂米利的《负债与内疚》的回应
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Political Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-17 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2143141
Riccardo Baldissone
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Decolonizing Debt: New Fields for Institutions – Response to Mitchell Dean, Andrea Mura and Valentina Napolitano 非殖民化债务:机构的新领域——对米切尔·迪恩、安德烈·穆拉和瓦伦蒂娜·纳波利塔诺的回应
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Political Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-11 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2143139
Elettra Stimilli
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The Time of Promise: Response to Antonio Cerella, Devin Singh and Riccardo Baldissone 《希望的时代:对安东尼奥·塞雷拉、德文·辛格和里卡多·巴尔迪松的回应》
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Political Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-09 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2143144
Elettra Stimilli
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The Oracles of Neoliberal Governance: A Critical Response to Elettra Stimilli’s Debt and Guilt 新自由主义治理的典范:对Elettra Stimilli债务和罪恶的批判性回应
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Political Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-08 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2143137
A. Mura
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Intimate Burdens: Addictive Debt and Productive Guilt 亲密负担:成瘾性债务和生产性内疚
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Political Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-08 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2143142
Devin Singh
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The Economic Theology of Debt 债务的经济神学
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Political Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-08 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2143136
M. Dean
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Symposium on Elettra Stimilli’s Debt and Guilt: A Political Philosophy – Introduction 埃莉特拉·斯蒂米利的“债务与罪责:一种政治哲学”研讨会导论
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Political Theology Pub Date : 2022-11-07 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2143135
Arthur Bradley
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