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Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote that ""the people reign over the American political world like God over the universe,"" unwittingly casting democracy as the political instantiation of the death of God. According to Jeffrey W. Robbins, Tocqueville's assessment remains an apt observation of modern democratic power, which does not rest with a sovereign authority but operates as a diffuse social force. By linking radical democratic theory to a contemporary fascination with political theology, Robbins envisions the modern experience of democracy as a social, cultural, and political force

Introduction: Doing theology in the age of Trump / Jeffrey W. Robbins and Clayton Crockett -- Is God a white nationalist? / Robin Meyers -- War of aggression: the Moody formation of white Christian nationalism / Alan Richard -- This is how we talk here, and if you don't like it, leave: theological epistemology, information technology, and Christian nationalism / Sarah Morice Brubaker -- Donald Trump and the privilege of outrage / James Howard Hill Jr. -- The white Christian nationalist hustle / Jeffrey W. Robbins -- Ungrounded innocence: confronting Christian culpability in white nationalism / Karen Bray -- Christian kingship: the empire's new clothes / Clayton Crockett -- Theological resistance to U.S. Christian nationalism / Mark Lewis Taylor -- The time of America / John D. Caputo -- Trump: the apotheosis of American exceptionalism / Michael S. Hogue -- Foxangelicals, political theology, and friends / Catherine Keller -- White evangelicals, American ethnonationalism, and prospects for change / Daniel Miller -- Trumpism is a state of affairs / Jordan E. Miller and Hollis Phelps -- Donald Trump, Republican beloved / Joe Bessler -- Taking advantage: Trumpism, postmodernism, and Christianity / David Galston -- Eternal scar of the fictive mind / Noëlle Vahanian

This book takes its leave with the realization that Western-driven culture is quickly reaching the limits of global capitalism, and that this reality manifests itself not only economically and politically, but that it is at once a cultural, aesthetic, political, religious, ecological, and philosophical problem. While Western capitalism is based upon the assumption of indefinite growth, we have run up against real, physical constraints to growth, and humanity must face the real, physical ramifications of the short-sighted and ultimately counter-productive choices made on behalf of the capitalist machine. While there is widespread angst and numerous scenarios of apocalyptic crisis and collapse, there is little or no comprehension of the problem and a coherent picture of reality is left wanting. Drawing primarily from the discourses of contemporary continental philosophy, cultural theory, and radical theology, the new materialism is being offered up as a redress to this problem by its effort to make sense of the world as an integrated whole. The book emphasizes three aspects of the current crisis: the ecological crisis, which is often viewed primarily in terms of global warming; the energy crisis, which involves peak oil and the limits of the ability to extract and exploit the cheap energy of fossil fuels; and finally the financial crisis, which involves the de-leveraging and destruction of massive amounts of money and credit. Each of these problems is inter-related, because money is dependent upon energy, and energy is a product of natural physical resources that are finite and diminishing. Rather than despair or the cynicism that passes for realpolitik, the authors will suggest that this crisis provides an opening for a new kind of orientation to thinking and acting, a new way of being in and of the earth. This opening is an opening onto a new materialism that is neither a crude consumerist materialism nor a reductive atomic materialism, but a materialism that takes seriously the material and physical world in which we live. This materialism counters idealism in its practical and philosophical forms, which constructs an ideal world that we wish to inhabit and then mistakes that world for the real one. Furthermore, in contrast to classical materialism which rejects religion as a form of false consciousness, this new materialism recognizes religion as an effective means of political mobilization and as a genuine source of piety, and thus does not oppose religion per se; instead, it opposes fanaticism and fundamentalism, including the fairy-tale expectations that a God or gods will rescue us from our predicament and punish the evil-doers while rewarding the righteous.

Introduction: back to the future / Clayton Crockett, B. Keith Putt, and Jeffrey W. Robbins -- PART I. THE MESSIANIC -- Is continental philosophy of religion dead? / John D. Caputo -- Friends and strangers/poets and rabbis: negotiating a "Capuphalian" philosophy of religion / B. Keith Putt -- Response / Merold Westphal -- Response / John D. Caputo -- On faith, the maternal, and postmodernism / Edward F. Mooney -- The persistence of the trace: interrogating the gods of speculative realism / Steven Shakespeare -- Speculating God: speculative realism and Meillassoux's divine inexistence / Leon Niemoczynski -- Between deconstruction and speculation: John D. Caputo and A/Theological materialism / Katharine Sarah Moody -- PART II. LIBERATION -- The future of liberation / Philip Goodchild -- Monetized philosophy and theological money: uneasy linkages and the future of a discourse / Devin Singh -- "Between justice and my mother": reflections on and between Levinas and Žižek / Gavin Hyman -- Verbis indisciplinatis / Joseph Ballan -- Overwhelming abundance and everyday liturgical practices: for a less excessive phenomenology of religious experience / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- Countercurrents: theology and the future of continental philosophy of religion / Noëlle Vahanian -- PART III. Plasticity -- The future of Derrida: time between epigenesis and epigenetics / Catherine Malabou -- On reading--Catherine Malabou / Randall Johnson -- Necessity as virtue: on religious materialism from Feuerbach to Žižek / Jeffrey W. Robbins -- Plasticity in the contemporary Islamic subject / John Thibdeau -- From cosmology to the first ethical gesture: Schelling with Irigaray / Lenart Škof -- Prolegomenon to thinking the reject for the future of continental philosophy of religion / Irving Goh -- Entropy / Clayton Crockett