New issue of exCommunicated: A Publication of the International Society for Heresy Studies
The International Society for Heresy Studies
contact email:
schweizerb@yahoo.com
In the United States, an unprecedented presidential election season is drawing to a close. For good or for ill, it has seen the arrival or return of beliefs which the neoliberal consensus had long ago dismissed as irrelevant: ideologies ranging from a vibrant socialism on the left to a frightening chauvinism on the right, and with an anti-corporate populism seemingly everywhere. To take stock of the rise of these “political heresies,” the editors of exCommunicated are looking for articles and essays that deal with the relationship of the political to the heretical, whether in the context of the current U.S. election or more broadly.
The International Society for Heresy Studies is an interdisciplinary academic organization dedicated to the study of heresy, blasphemy, and non-belief. Approaching our fifth anniversary, the ISHS has so far held two international conferences hosted by New York University and regularly publishes exCommunicated. Our publication aims to uphold the standards of scholarly rigor while also publishing work that can be engaging to a general audience. The following subjects could be of interest to our readers in this themed issue:
Political theology of contemporary parties or candidates.
Evangelical Christian “heresy” in the support of Donald Trump.
Millennialism and progress in the political thought of right and left.
Neoliberalism as the major “religion” of the contemporary world.
Philosophical or theoretical analysis of the current U.S. election.
The normalization of Islamophobic rhetoric.
U.S. Civil Religion and its role in the election.
Apocalyptic rhetoric utilized by any candidate.
Please send submissions to Bernard Schweizer of Long Island University at schweizerb@yahoo.com no later than September 30th, 2016.
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