...M. Shawn Copeland After sketching the development of black theology and its unmasking of white racism at the heart of Christianity in the United States, the article turns to the seminal work of historian of religions Charles H. Long in order to understand more adequately the emergence of black...

... . Nagel Thomas . 1987 . “ Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy .” Philosophy and Public Affairs 16 , no. 3 : 215 – 40 . Nieden Hans-Jörg Nieden Marcel . 1999 . Praxis Pietatis: Bietráge zu Theologie und Frömmigkeit in der Frühen Neuzeit . Stuttgart : Kohlhammer...

...Simon Coleman I explore potential tensions and mutual provocations among the anthropology of religion, radical theology, and critical philosophy in order to suggest the political and potentially eventful role of the immanent in anthropology. By the end of the essay, my apologia argues...

...J. Kameron Carter I argue in this essay that blackness can and should be thought of as a paratheological ghosting of modernity, where modernity is to be understood as a practice of sovereignty or political theology. As paratheological, blackness has an appositional—and not merely an oppositional...

...Willie James Jennings The idea of tradition has become in many ways a religious vision that reaches beyond its origin in Christian thought to now exist as a way to narrate identity quests, frame one’s spirituality, and especially situate the intellectual life. It has become a theology itself...

... Taubes’s 1987 Heidelberg lectures on “the political theology of Paul.”1 It resurfaces a few years later in philosopher Alain Badiou’s 1997 reading of Paul as “the poet-thinker of the event...

... Cross, is assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. He has published articles in the DePaul Law Review, Pro Ecclesia, 6719 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY / 101:2 / sheet 197 of 202 Communio, The Thomist, and other journals. During...

... . “ The Ghost of Theology: Readings of Kant and Hegel .” Special issue, Diacritics , 11 , no. 2 . Baker Houston A. Jr. 1987 . “ In Dubious Battle .” New Literary History 18 , no. 2 : 363 – 84 . doi:10.2307/468734 . Balthasar Hans Urs von . 1968 . Love Alone: The Way of Revelation...

... Debates: A Reader is an associate professor of theology at Loyola College in Maryland and currently a visiting professor on the fac- ulty of theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, where...

... is an assistant professor of theology at Seattle Pacific Univer- sity. His most recent book is Redeeming Mulatto: A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity (2010). Pamela Brown is an Occupy Wall Street–inspired activist who works on issues related to economic inequality. She holds her undergraduate degree...

... Sherman A. 2009 . Islam and the Problem of Black Suffering . New York : Oxford University Press . doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382068.001.0001 . Jones William R. 1998 . Is God a White Racist? A Preamble to Black Theology . Boston : Beacon . Kierkegaard Søren . 1983...

... nicely lays out the kind of observation that has driven our efforts here. Ward and Milbank are asked if they think the new visibility of religion and the associated rise of young people studying theology will con- tinue, or if they believe that instead the phenomena will turn out to have been...

..., with its own equally assertive divisions of sexual and reproductive obligation. Although it is not without its emulators, US welfare reform represents, to date, the most egregious and unparalleled attempt to legislate the sexual contract of post­Fordism.24 In language inspired by the Thomist theology...

... feature of academic life is in this way being destroyed but because of what it means for the polity in general and its own conception of itself. In order to explain what I mean by that last assertion, I need first to take a sideways step which may be surprising: to theology. In the wake...

...; on the other, . . . it is closed in a total opacity. Animal captivation and the openness of the world thus seem related to one another as are negative and positive theology, and their relationship is as ambiguous as the one which simultaneously opposes and binds in a secret complicity...

... hand, and conditions of normative practice, on the other. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Baltazar Eulalio . 1973 . The Dark Center: A Process Theology of Blackness . New York : Paulist Press . Bogues B. Anthony , ed. 2006 . After Man, towards the Human...

... Meyer art and aesthetics resonates well with Protestant misgivings about the use of material forms in communicating with and about God. While Catholic theology acknowledges the role of aesthetics in enabling religious experi- ence (after all, sacraments require ritual forms, just as the presence...

... assumptions would need to enlist the help of South Atlantic Quarterly 109:4, Fall 2010 DOI 10.1215/00382876-2010-010 © 2010 Duke University Press 634 Joel Robbins ­theology if it were to win its battles to shape the direction of social change...

...); and the rediscovery of Schmittian political theology as an analytic tool in wartime.8 In fact, it is now almost as astonishing to find scholarship praising the secular at the expense of the religious as it was (if it was) to witness the so-called “return of religions” in 1994. This exchange of surprises...

...). She is the coeditor of Material Religion. C. J. C. Pickstock is a reader in philosophy and theology at the Univer- sity of Cambridge. She is the author of After Writing (Blackwell, 1997) and coauthor of Truth in Aquinas (Routledge, 1999), as well as numerous articles...