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# Archive Keyword: political-theology

### [Bare Life and Divine Violence: Benjamin, Levinas, and Ethics of Interruption](/archives/25.2/alikhani/)

Diako Alikhani

Diako Alikhani rereads Benjamin’s divine violence through Levinas, arguing that bare life is where mythic law and ethical interruption...

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### [Specters of Lost Causes: Caputo’s Theology through the Žižekian Lens of Fidelity and Haunting](/archives/25.2/cheung/)

Yiu Ming Cheung

Yiu Ming Cheung brings Žižek’s lost causes together with Caputo’s event-theology to build a postsecular theology of insistence and...

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### [“Naming the Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, and Radical Incompleteness: Resituating a Political Theology](/archives/20.1/willis/)

James E. Willis III

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### [The Use and Abuse of the Expression “Christian Nationalism”](/archives/22.2/raschke/)

Carl A. Raschke

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### [A Critical Conversation on “Political Erasure”](/archives/21.3/bradley0/)

Arthur Bradley

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### [Against Thanatopolitics: a Marrano Intervention](/archives/21.3/bielik_robson/)

Agata Bielik-Robson

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### [Book Forum: The Poetics of Disappearance](/archives/21.3/bradley1/)

Arthur Bradley

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### [Caveat Lector: Introduction](/archives/21.3/bradley2/)

Arthur Bradley

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### [Otherwise: A Response to Boštjan Nedoh](/archives/21.3/bradley8/)

Arthur Bradley

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### [The Beautiful Marrano: A Response to Agata Blielik-Robson](/archives/21.3/bradley6/)

Arthur Bradley

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### [Undead](/archives/21.3/nedoh/)

Boštjan Nedoh

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### [Apocalypticism as Political Theology.](/archives/19.1/mccullough/)

Lissa McCullough

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### [Benjamin: To the Rhythm of Theological Concepts](/archives/19.3/5-leibovic/)

Nitzan Lebovic

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### [Admitting a Certain Fear of ŽIŽEk’s Theology: a Modest Plea for a Deleuzian Reading of the Death of God.](/archives/18.2/samuel/)

Joshua Samuel

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### [Fetish and the Erasure of Indigeneity](/archives/18.2/green/)

Roger K. Green

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### [From Christology to Political Theology.](/archives/18.2/hovorun/)

Cyril Hovorun

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### [The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology.](/archives/13.2/scholes/)

Jeffrey Scholes

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### [Introduction](/archives/12.1/lupton.gordon/)

Julia Reinhard Lupton; CJ Gordon

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### [Christ, History and Apocalyptic: the Politics of Christian Mission](/archives/10.3/barber/)

Daniel Colucciello Barber

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### [Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post-9/11 Powers and American Empire](/archives/08.2/phelps/)

Hollis Phelps

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### [September 11: Religious Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences](/archives/08.2/daponte/)

Paul J. DaPonte

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### [The Theology of Money](/archives/09.3/crockett/)

Clayton Crockett

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### [Theology and the Political: the New Debate](/archives/08.2/smith/)

Anthony Paul Smith

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### [Does Human Rights Need God?](/archives/08.1/wright/)

David B. Dillard-Wright

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### [Capitalism and Religion: the Price of Piety](/archives/05.2/iyer/)

Lars Iyer

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### [The Puppet and the Dwarf: the Perverse Core of Christianity](/archives/05.2/woodard/)

Jared Woodard

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### [Religion and Modernity in Current Debate](/archives/04.2/pecora/)

Vincent P. Pecora

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### [Left Traumatized: Zizek’s Lenin and Politics After 9/11](/archives/03.2/katz/)

Adam Katz

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