Category Archives: Reception History

  1. Jesus, Christianity and (English) Socialism

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    March 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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  2. English Political Christmasses 2017

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    December 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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  3. Theresa May’s Festive Brexit: Christmas Means Christmas

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    December 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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  4. Bible and Critical Theory latest edition: free and online

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    November 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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  5. This Past Week in the Political Bible: Giles Fraser, Jeremy Corbyn, Class War, and Pentecostalism

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    October 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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  6. Dennis Skinner’s Radical Bible

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    September 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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  7. Open Access Study on Brexit Barrow: A Summary

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    August 31, 2016 by Harnessing Chaos

    A new study of a ‘northern Brexit town’, covering attitudes towards politicians, Britishness/Englishness, class, religion, and the Bible is available …
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  8. BTB Open Access Article on the Bible in English Politics

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    August 30, 2016 by Harnessing Chaos

    ​The following Biblical Theology Bulletin article is now open access: “By What Authority Are You Doing This? A Brief History …
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  9. Corbyn: The New Puritan?

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    July 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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  10. Italian Westerns and the Radical Bible

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    June 20, 2016 by Harnessing Chaos

    The Italian Westerns of the 60s and 70s were tied up with discussions of radical politics, the recent fascist past …
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