Race and Political Theology

by Lloyd, Vincent W.

• ISBN13: 9780804773157
• ISBN10: 0804773157
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-25
• Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services, Inc.

Summary

In this volume, senior scholars come together to explore how Jewish and African American experiences can make us think differently about the nexus of religion and politics, or political theology. Some wrestle with historical figures, such as William Shakespeare, W. E. B. Du Bois, Nazi journalist Wilhelm Stapel, and Austrian historian Otto Brunner. Others ponder what political theology can contribute to contemporary politics, particularly relating to Israel's complicated religious/racial/national identity and to the religious currents in African American politics. Race and Political Theologyopens novel avenues for research in intellectual history, religious studies, political theory, and cultural studies, showing how timely questions about religion and politics must be reframed when race is taken into account.

Author Biography

Vincent W. Lloyd is Assistant Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. Stanford recently published his The Problem with Grace: Reconfiguring Political Theology (2011).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Political Theology and the Case of Otto Brunner	p. 22
"The Politicization of Heaven": Wilhelm Stapel's Political Theology of Nationalist Sovereignty	p. 54
Between W. E. B. Du Bois and Karl Barth: The Problem of Modern Political Theology	p. 83
There Are No Clean Souls: The Promise and Perils of Political Theology in The Souls of Black Folk	p. 112
The Race for Theology: Toward a Critical Political Theology of Freedom	p. 134
The Enemy's Two Bodies (Political Theology Too)	p. 156
The Double Mark of the Male Muslim: Eracing Othello	p. 174
Between Sacred and Secular? Michael Walzer's Exodus Story	p. 188
The State between Race and Religion: A Conversation	p. 213
From Political Theology to Vernacular Prophecy: Rethinking Redemption	p. 234
Index	p. 249
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