The Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion
www.hope.ac.uk/acpr
Keynote speakers
Saba Mahmood
Catherine Keller
Katharine Sarah Moody
Richard Seymour
Conference Description
Political theology names a key site where contemporary philosophical
engagement with religion takes place. Through notions such as sovereignty\,
messianism\, apocalypse\, hope and fidelity\, a thinking of political grounds
and transformations is never far from the theological. The nature of that
relationship is\, however\, sharply contested.
Is the postsecular a way back to retrieving traditional sources for
political sovereignty\, or the opening of new possibilities for religion and
politics to interact? Does it represent a further victory for Eurocentric
understandings of religion and politics\, or a way to undermine and move
beyond them? As the possibility of revolutionary political change is
confronted by the &lsquo\;capitalist realist&rsquo\; sense of the impossibility of
imagining how things could ever be radically otherwise\, can political
theology provide resources for creative advance\, both theoretically and
practically?
The conference will invite critical and constructive interventions in this
debate. Relevant thinkers and traditions of enquiry will include\, for
example\, Agamben\, Zizek\, Butler\, Derrida\, Pui-Lan\, Schmitt\, Taubes\, Hardt
and Negri\, Spivak\, Macintyre\, Habermas\, Mahmood\, Foucault\, Cone\,
postcolonialism\, new materialism\, radical orthodoxy\, liberation theologies\,
feminist theology\, queer theology and pragmatism.
Steven Shakespeare: shakess@hope.ac.uk
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