Category Archives: Bible and English Politics
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Jesus, Christianity and (English) Socialism
6March 3, 2018 by Harnessing Chaos
‘Why Christianity matters for socialism’, or from the historical Jesus to Jeremy Corbyn, is now available on the Morning Star …
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English Political Christmasses 2017
1December 24, 2017 by Harnessing Chaos
Theresa May: The Ghost of Cameron Past Theresa May’s construction of Christmas is a little different this year. The usual …
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Theresa May’s Festive Brexit: Christmas Means Christmas
3December 5, 2016 by Harnessing Chaos
Theresa May has continued the standard route of the mainstream politician by authorising her politics vaguely in Christianity and God. …
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Identity Politics and the Contemporary English Left II: Class War and/in Rojava
Leave a commentDecember 2, 2016 by Harnessing Chaos
This continues some notes on my research on contemporary English politics (Left, Right, Centre) and their use of ‘religion’, ‘the …
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Bible and Critical Theory latest edition: free and online
2November 15, 2016 by Harnessing Chaos
The latest BCT is out and it is free, open access, and online (PDFs here.). “Manufacturing Dissent: Reflections on a …
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This Past Week in the Political Bible: Giles Fraser, Jeremy Corbyn, Class War, and Pentecostalism
4October 4, 2016 by Harnessing Chaos
This past week a number of examples of the Radical Bible (i.e. the Bible roughly equated with, or having some …
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Dennis Skinner’s Radical Bible
1September 8, 2016 by Harnessing Chaos
Dennis Skinner is, like Corbyn, one of the few figures from the old Labour Left to survive the Blair-Brown years. …
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Corbyn: The New Puritan?
7July 15, 2016 by Harnessing Chaos
Sects and Broad Churches Part of my interests in the history of modern English political discourses and constructions of what …
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