By Marcia Pally Posted Mon 14 Jun 2021, 10:42am Karl Barth (1886–1968) and Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) witnessed some of modernity’s worst moments — Nazism and the Holocaust — and may have something to say to our present moment. https://www.abc.net.au/religion/barth-bonhoeffer-and-the-dilemma-of-modernity/13386982. Among the […]
Pally, Marcia “Why is Populism Persuasive? Populism as Expression of Religio-Cultural History with the U.S. and U.S. Evangelicals as a Case Study”
Political Theology Published online: 11 Mar 2020
Evangelicals, Right-wing Populism, Trump: Not a Faustian Bargain Published in Theologische Literaturzeitung, Nov. 2019, pp 1084-1102. Introduction The 81 percent of white American evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump in 20161 drew substantial attention as it seemed that one of America’s […]
A TALE OF TWO COVENANTS: American populism–the history that makes our politics, health care, nativism, and Paris peace accord withdrawal By Marcia Pally Published in Religious and Ethics, June 8, 2017 In the United States, repeal of the Affordable Care […]
Pandemic Police Populism By Marcia Pally June 26, 2020 https://politicaltheology.com/pandemic-police-populism/ Blaming Covid 19 on the World Health Organization or on a lab in China and calling Black Lives Matter “radical leftist extremists” follow the American-populist playbook of responding to duress by […]
Campaign Stops STRONG OPINIONS ON THE 2012 ELECTION The New Evangelicals By MARCIA PALLY The New York Times, Dec. 9, 2011 Though public support for both major political parties is very low, one group of voters is usually exempted from this […]
Our post-pandemic future: What basics should be its basis? By Marcia Pally Religion & Ethics, May 24, 2020 What is needed to effect a change in our socio-economic and environmental practices? By what principles should we proceed after the […]
More than a Resource: Covenant as a Basis for Societal Organization By Prof. Dr. Marcia Pally in: Religion and Democracy: Challenges and Resources in a Public Theological Perspective Torsten Meireis and Rolf Schieder (Eds., 2017), pp. 71-87 Introduction Of human thriving, […]
Recovering Relationality: From the ‘Selfish Gene’ to a ‘Hyper-Cooperative Species’ By Marcia Pally Religion and Ethics, 5 Apr 2016 In the summative speech of the film Margin Call, Jeremy Irons, playing the fictional head of a collapsing Lehman Brothers-type investment house, […]
Pally, Marcia “Peculiar Relations of Affectability”: Peirce and Royce as resources for the Philosophy of Martin Luther King Jr., Telos Journal, special edition on Martin Luther King Jr. Spring 2018 vol. 2018 no. 182 161-182