In a recent article in Race & Class I trace the origin of the "great replacement" conspiracy back to the Doctrine of Discovery.
Political Theology, Discovery and the Roots of the ‘Great Replacement’
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Quillen Shinn’s “Paradise”
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An account of the first extant sermon from the Unitarian Universalist tradition preached in Houston, Texas.
Books read in 2023
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The list of books I read in 2023.
Religion in Houston’s Pan-African Community: Mtangulizi Sanyika
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An oral history with Dr. Mtangulizi Sanyika
Hungarian Catholic intellectuals in contemporary Romania
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My review of Marc Loustau's Hungarian Catholic intellectuals in contemporary Romania: reforming Apostles has just been published in Politics, Religion, and Ideology.
A Centre for Unitarian and Dissenting Studies
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A brief reflection on my time at Harris Manchester College and the nascent effort to establish a Centre for Unitarian and Dissenting Studies.
New Article: Populism as Political Ontology
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Populism is a political ontology, in which political being is centered on the question of collective identity. It is also a political theology embedded within constitutional democracy.
Sitges
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We are Sitges. We got here last week and we’ll be here for another eleven days or so. We are using it as a homebase while I write and we take a variety of day trips around Catalonia. Sitges is one of those places that’s been described as “the crown jewel of the Mediterranean.” It is a beautiful beach town about 40 minutes South of the center of Barcelona by train (the train leaves every 15...
London Libraries
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Since my purpose in visiting London was to conduct research, it only seems reasonable that I offer a blog post about the city’s libraries. I spent time at only a fraction of them. There’s probably well over a half dozen libraries that I could have made use of if I had had more time. But, because I was in the city for only two weeks of archival research, I focused my time on two places, the...
Prague
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After I left Oxford, I spent the weekend in Prague. Like my time in Oxford, the trip was primarily work related. I was there visiting the Czech photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková. Her show at FotoFest 2022 will be held at First Houston. My father and I are curating it and the objective of the visit was to work with her to make the final selection of images for the exhibition. I think it is going to...