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A review essay covering a book by Giorgio Agamben, The Kingdom and the Glory: For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government (2011).

This diverse and daring interrogation of the roots and implications of rampant white Christian nationalism provides conceptual clarity regarding this toxic intersection of political extremism, racism, and religion. Discussing current events with philosophical, sociological, and political context, the volume is a call-to-action for all readers.

From Megyn Kelly's claim that Jesus is white to former President Trump's claim that he is the chosen one or the King of Israel, there is serious trouble in paradise. Contemporary manifestations of white Christian nationalism are deeply entangled in political issues from women s political rights over their own bodies to the rejection of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Carrying Christian signs and crosses, protestors at the Capitol insurrection on January 6th were not only fighting with a sense of white nationalist duty but fighting with a religious zeal, making this a pressing moment in the current time to which this volume speaks.This edited collection invites scholars share frustration, anger, interrogation, and conceptual clarity with readers regarding this toxic form of Christianity that fights not in the name of love, but in the name of political domination and out of deep fear and hatred. Attention is also brought to Christianity s counter-voice, one predicated upon love, and its effectiveness to resist not just deep political pro-white forces at work, but also its capacity to focus emphasis upon Christian love. The text is designed to speak to the contemporary moment with respect to the explicit and implicit ways in which white nationalism and white Christianity continue to be entangled and reinforce one another. Contributors are asked to articulate what is behind this racially, politically, ideologically, psychically charged whiteness of Christianity in the US, and to articulate what is beyond the whiteness of Christianity for both Christians and non-Christians alike concerned with the rise of white Christian nationalism

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: Political Theology on Edge -- PART I • Political Theology and the Anthropocene -- 1. The Anthropocene as Planetary Machine -- 2. Anthropocenic Journeys -- 3. Resisting Geopower: Political Theologies of the Anthropocene -- PART II • Destruction and Suicide -- 4. The Tradition of Destruction (Kaf ka's Law) -- 5. Suicide Notes (In Remembrance of David Buckel) -- 6. Catachresis in the Margins: Notes on Theologico- Political Method -- PART III • Affective and Axiomatic Interventions -- 7. Doing Theology When Whiteness Stands Its Ground -- 8. Paul between Protagoras and Rancière: "On the basis of equality, . . . that there may be equality -- 9. Listening for the Power of the People: A Political Theology of Affect -- PART IV Global Political Theologies -- 10. Undressing Political Theology for an Animal- Saint Redress -- 11. What Is Political about Political Islam? -- PART V • From Genocide toward a Sacred Politics -- 12. #BlackLivesMatter and Sacred Politics -- 13. Genocide and the Sin of Identity -- 14. Mystic S/Zong! -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS

Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION. Beyond Incommensurability: Toward an Otherwise Stance on Black and Indigenous Relationality -- Part I BOUNDLESS BODIES -- CHAPTER ONE. Stayed / Freedom / Hallelujah -- CHAPTER TWO. Reading the Dead: A Black Feminist Poethical Reading of Global Capital -- CHAPTER THREE. Staying Ready for Black Study: A Conversation -- Part II. BOUNDLESS ONTOLOGIES -- CHAPTER FOUR. New World Grammars: The "Unthought" Black Discourses of Conquest -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Vel of Slavery: Tracking the Figure of the Unsovereign -- CHAPTER SIX. Sovereignty as Deferred Genocide -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Murder and Metaphysics: Leslie Marmon Silko's "Tony's Story" and Audre Lorde's "Power" -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Other Worlds, Nowhere (or, The Sacred Otherwise) -- Part III BOUNDLESS SOCIALITIES -- CHAPTER NINE. Possessions of Whiteness: Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness in the Pacific -- CHAPTER TEN. " What's Past Is Prologue": Black Native Refusal and the Colonial Archive -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Indian Country's Apartheid -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Ugh! Maskoke People and Our Pervasive Anti-Black Racism . . . Let the Language Teach Us! -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Mississippian Black Metal Grl on a Friday Night (2018) with Artist's Statement -- Part IV. BOUNDLESS KINSHIP -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Countdown Remix: Why Two Native Feminists Ride with Queen Bey -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Slay Serigraph with Artist's Statement -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN. Mass Incarceration since 1492 -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. "Liberation,": Cover of Queer Indigenous Girl, Volume 4 & "Roots," Cover of Black Indigenous Boy, Volume 2 -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. Visual Cultures of Indigenous Futurism -- CHAPTER NINETEEN. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Decolonial Project -- CHAPTER TWENTY. Building Maroon Intellectual Communities -- Contributors -- Index