The first in a series of reflection about the nature of populism.
What is Populism?
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Support Groundbreaking Work on Populism
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In April Wayne State University Press will be publishing my book The Political Theologies of Populism: the Garveyites, the Klan, and the Wobblies, 1915-1930. Like a number of academic publishers, they require authors to pay for the rights of the illustrations. They also require authors to pay for indexing. The combined cost for both is approximately $3,000. I don’t have access to subvention funds...
Christian Nationalism and Liberalizing Religion in Texas
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A report on a talk I gave for the European Center for Populism Studies is now online.
The Political Theologies of Populism
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Pre-order my new book The Political Theologies of Populism!
A New World in Our Hearts: Reimagining Democracy
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A post-election sermon reflecting on the need to build Beloved Community.
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.
Books read in 2022
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A list of the books I read in 2022.
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...
Reimaging Care
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as preached at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Houston, February 5, 2022 It is good to be back in the pulpit. I miss you when I am gone. Not that I particularly went anywhere. I spent most of the last month holed up in my home office working on finishing the manuscript for the book I have been writing on populism and religion. I am grateful to have had the support of this congregation...