Asymmetric Warfare: The First Three Thousand Years By Marcia Pally · Thursday, April 27, 2017 The thoughts below were first presented at the 2017 Telos Paul Piccone Institute conference, “Asymmetrical Warfare: The Centrality of the Political to the Strategic.” On the perhaps naïve […]
Worried about the 2020 election? Check out my article on: Why Is Populism Persuasive, published in Political Theology
David Brooks, in his New York Times column, discusses Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality
Commonwealth and Covenant. This 2016 volume applies intellectual history, philosophy, and theologies of relationality (Christian and Jewish) to develop a framework for economic and political policy. A “magisterial study of relationality in Western theology and culture”—William Storrar, Center for Theological […]
Mimesis and Sacrifice (Ed., 2019): this edited volume by an inter-disciplinary and international groups of scholars looks at the ethics of how notions of sacrifice are used in contemporary life, from the military and business to gender relation and politics. […]
The New Evangelicals Polarized politics and religious-based terrorism have raised the question; is deep religious belief antithetical to liberal democracy? This book explores America’s evangelical communities who have left the Right for a worldview and practices where religious life and liberal […]
Religion Behind the Scenes: The Influence of Evangelicalism on Freedom of Conscience, Pluralism, and U.S. Politics. [ Die hintergründige Religion:Der Einfluss des Evangelikalismus auf Gewissensfreiheit, Pluralismus und die US amerikanische Politik] Though freedom of conscience and church-state separation are today […]
Critique Abandoned: The Ceding of Democracy Purchase on Amazon Why do Western democracies at once offer their citizens the greatest freedoms and opportunities and yet are unable to solve many of their fundamental problems? Critique Abandoned looks at how citizens […]
Sustained Content-Based Teaching in Academic ESL/EFL. Purchase on Amazon This book explores the benefits to ESL/EFL learners of content-based instruction where a unit of study is sustained over time. Ten case studies are examined that address all skill areas and […]
Sex & Sensibility: Reflections on Forbidden Mirrors and the Will to Censor Finalist for the Mencken Award of the Free Press Association. Nominated for the American Association of Gender and Genital Medicine and Science Biennial Award and for the Medal […]