Figuring the Maternal in Political Theology

Taking its cue from political and theological discourses, political theology has often taken recourse to paternity, sovereignty, inheritance, etc., in order to think its conceptual coordinates. Even as those coordinates are offered for critique, this session will explore the elision of the figure of the mother in political theology. What of the mother in the making of political theology? Papers will be presented by

Amaryah Shaye Armstrong
Miguel Vatter
Janice McRandal
Scott Kirkland