Maxwell Kennel
Biographic Data
| ID | 297028 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maxwell Kennel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maxwell |
| FAMILY NAME | Kennel |
| SIGNATURE | KENNEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1052-9621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pacifist Historiography: Anabaptist History Between Normativity and Description and Beyond Neutralization and Polarization
Domination and Dignity: A Conversation with Vincent Lloyd on the Black Radical Tradition
Vincent Lloyd is a scholar of religion, politics, and race, whose work has focused variously on charisma, Black secularism and theology, natural law, grace, Christian ethics, and the work of Gillian Rose. Editor for many years of the journal Political Theology , Lloyd has shaped and influenced several discrete and overlapping conversations on religion and politics in the Global North. Lloyd's most recent book, Black Dignity: The Struggle Against …
Beyond the Postsecular
Violent Displacements: On Grace Jantzen’s Death and the Displacement of Beauty
This study reconceptualizes violence as the violation of value-laden boundaries through a close reading of the Death and the Displacement of Beauty trilogy by feminist philosopher of religion Grace M. Jantzen. Given the inherent normativity of the concept, it is difficult to imagine how violence could avoid simply becoming a tool in the hands of the powerful who would define it in polemical or coercive ways. But Jantzen’s work runs counter to a f…
Plato, Adorno, and the Dialectic
This essay shows substantial connections between Plato’s dialectical approach in The Republic and Adorno’s 1958 lectures in An Introduction to Dialectics. Although the relationship between Adorno and Aristotle has received some attention, little work has been done either demonstrating or making connections between Plato and Adorno, especially on the topic of the dialectic. This is likely because Adorno himself has little to say about Plato’s dial…
Religious Studies and Internal Family Systems Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a psychotherapy modality that combines elements of systems theory with an experiential approach that rests on distinctions between Self and parts of self. Unlike more cognitive approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic ‘talk’ therapies, IFS challenges traditional divisions between mind and body that have endured in both the treatment of psychological trauma and in the study of religi…
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mennonite Political Theology
This special issue of Political Theology collects four exemplary contributions that showcase the interdisciplinary breadth of political theology done by and about Mennonites. Although there are many ways to conceptualize political theology from within established academic disciplines my approach to framing this special issue is to suggest that Mennonite political theology is at its very best when it is interdisciplinary and pluralistic, and when …
Hans Harder (1903–1987), “Between Bourgeois Existence and Violence” (1979)
“Between Bourgeois Existence and Violence” is a controversial sermon by the German Mennonite literary figure Johannes (Hans) Harder. Translated by Vic Thiessen, and appearing here for the first time in English, Harder's sermon gives the reader a glimpse into the tensions that Mennonite pacifists sought to address in postwar Germany. Delivered at the funeral of a Mennonite terrorist – Elizabeth von Dyck, a member of the Red Army Faction who was sh…
Apocalypse and Politics
Apokalypse und Politik collects essays, reviews, and shorter writings of Jewish philosopher Jacob Taubes, making several of his English-language essays available for the first time in German translation and adding to a body of work that already includes the collection From Cult to Culture and the lectures contained in The Political Theology of Paul. Divided into four sections—essays and lectures, 1942–1962, essays and lectures 1963–1987, reviews,…
Periodization and Providence: Time and Eternity between Nietzsche's Zarathustra and Augustine's Confessions
In her book Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time, Kathleen Davis writes of the temporal regulation that divides "a religious Middle Ages and a secular modernity."1 Davis contests simple caricatures of the transition from feudalism to capitalism and asks "why, in the face of all challenges to teleological and stage-oriented histories, do the monoliths medieval/religious/feudal and mod…
Critique of Metaphysical Violence
This study bridges secular philosophical perspectives and Christian theological perspectives by showing how the critique of metaphysical violence is common to certain representatives of both parties. By examining specifically metaphysical, and therefore epistemologically significant, ways of critiquing violence, this study seeks to show that, just as violence cuts across the sacred-secular divide and spans the distance between abstraction and act…
Müntzer, Taubes, and the Anabaptists: Emancipatory History and Political Theology
The radical apocalypticism of the sixteenth century mystic and revolutionary Thomas Müntzer has served as an enduring resource for the political left, from early investigations by Engels and Bloch to the recent works of Alberto Toscano and Wu Ming. In one of his lesser-studied works – the 1947 dissertation Occidental Eschatology – Jewish philosopher Jacob Taubes places Müntzer at a key juncture in the history of eschatology, first by situating hi…
Postsecular History: Continental Philosophy of Religion and the Seventeenth Century Dutch Collegiant Movement1
This study provides a particular historical reading of the postsecular moment. In an effort to problematize and historicize the claims of both the secular and the postsecular, this study draws a connecting line between a contemporary postsecular thinker (Daniel Colucciello Barber), and a group of religious dissidents in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic (the Collegiants). In order to demonstrate that the concept of the secular is value-laden…
Violent Displacements: On Grace Jantzen’s Death and the Displacement of Beauty
This study reconceptualizes violence as the violation of value-laden boundaries through a close reading of the Death and the Displacement of Beauty trilogy by feminist philosopher of religion Grace M. Jantzen. Given the inherent normativity of the concept, it is difficult to imagine how violence could avoid simply becoming a tool in the hands of the powerful who would define it in polemical or coercive ways. But Jantzen’s work runs counter to a f…
Postsecular History: Continental Philosophy of Religion and the Seventeenth Century Dutch Collegiant Movement1
This study provides a particular historical reading of the postsecular moment. In an effort to problematize and historicize the claims of both the secular and the postsecular, this study draws a connecting line between a contemporary postsecular thinker (Daniel Colucciello Barber), and a group of religious dissidents in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic (the Collegiants). In order to demonstrate that the concept of the secular is value-laden…
Periodization and Providence: Time and Eternity between Nietzsche's Zarathustra and Augustine's Confessions
In her book Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time, Kathleen Davis writes of the temporal regulation that divides "a religious Middle Ages and a secular modernity."1 Davis contests simple caricatures of the transition from feudalism to capitalism and asks "why, in the face of all challenges to teleological and stage-oriented histories, do the monoliths medieval/religious/feudal and mod…
Postsecular History: Continental Philosophy of Religion and the Seventeenth Century Dutch Collegiant Movement1
This study provides a particular historical reading of the postsecular moment. In an effort to problematize and historicize the claims of both the secular and the postsecular, this study draws a connecting line between a contemporary postsecular thinker (Daniel Colucciello Barber), and a group of religious dissidents in the seventeenth century Dutch Republic (the Collegiants). In order to demonstrate that the concept of the secular is value-laden…
Müntzer, Taubes, and the Anabaptists: Emancipatory History and Political Theology
The radical apocalypticism of the sixteenth century mystic and revolutionary Thomas Müntzer has served as an enduring resource for the political left, from early investigations by Engels and Bloch to the recent works of Alberto Toscano and Wu Ming. In one of his lesser-studied works – the 1947 dissertation Occidental Eschatology – Jewish philosopher Jacob Taubes places Müntzer at a key juncture in the history of eschatology, first by situating hi…
Periodization and Providence: Time and Eternity between Nietzsche's Zarathustra and Augustine's Confessions
In her book Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time, Kathleen Davis writes of the temporal regulation that divides "a religious Middle Ages and a secular modernity."1 Davis contests simple caricatures of the transition from feudalism to capitalism and asks "why, in the face of all challenges to teleological and stage-oriented histories, do the monoliths medieval/religious/feudal and mod…
Critique of Metaphysical Violence
This study bridges secular philosophical perspectives and Christian theological perspectives by showing how the critique of metaphysical violence is common to certain representatives of both parties. By examining specifically metaphysical, and therefore epistemologically significant, ways of critiquing violence, this study seeks to show that, just as violence cuts across the sacred-secular divide and spans the distance between abstraction and act…
Apocalypse and Politics
Apokalypse und Politik collects essays, reviews, and shorter writings of Jewish philosopher Jacob Taubes, making several of his English-language essays available for the first time in German translation and adding to a body of work that already includes the collection From Cult to Culture and the lectures contained in The Political Theology of Paul. Divided into four sections—essays and lectures, 1942–1962, essays and lectures 1963–1987, reviews,…
Plato, Adorno, and the Dialectic
This essay shows substantial connections between Plato’s dialectical approach in The Republic and Adorno’s 1958 lectures in An Introduction to Dialectics. Although the relationship between Adorno and Aristotle has received some attention, little work has been done either demonstrating or making connections between Plato and Adorno, especially on the topic of the dialectic. This is likely because Adorno himself has little to say about Plato’s dial…
Religious Studies and Internal Family Systems Therapy
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a psychotherapy modality that combines elements of systems theory with an experiential approach that rests on distinctions between Self and parts of self. Unlike more cognitive approaches such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and psychodynamic ‘talk’ therapies, IFS challenges traditional divisions between mind and body that have endured in both the treatment of psychological trauma and in the study of religi…
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Mennonite Political Theology
This special issue of Political Theology collects four exemplary contributions that showcase the interdisciplinary breadth of political theology done by and about Mennonites. Although there are many ways to conceptualize political theology from within established academic disciplines my approach to framing this special issue is to suggest that Mennonite political theology is at its very best when it is interdisciplinary and pluralistic, and when …
Hans Harder (1903–1987), “Between Bourgeois Existence and Violence” (1979)
“Between Bourgeois Existence and Violence” is a controversial sermon by the German Mennonite literary figure Johannes (Hans) Harder. Translated by Vic Thiessen, and appearing here for the first time in English, Harder's sermon gives the reader a glimpse into the tensions that Mennonite pacifists sought to address in postwar Germany. Delivered at the funeral of a Mennonite terrorist – Elizabeth von Dyck, a member of the Red Army Faction who was sh…
Beyond the Postsecular
Violent Displacements: On Grace Jantzen’s Death and the Displacement of Beauty
This study reconceptualizes violence as the violation of value-laden boundaries through a close reading of the Death and the Displacement of Beauty trilogy by feminist philosopher of religion Grace M. Jantzen. Given the inherent normativity of the concept, it is difficult to imagine how violence could avoid simply becoming a tool in the hands of the powerful who would define it in polemical or coercive ways. But Jantzen’s work runs counter to a f…
Pacifist Historiography: Anabaptist History Between Normativity and Description and Beyond Neutralization and Polarization
Domination and Dignity: A Conversation with Vincent Lloyd on the Black Radical Tradition
Vincent Lloyd is a scholar of religion, politics, and race, whose work has focused variously on charisma, Black secularism and theology, natural law, grace, Christian ethics, and the work of Gillian Rose. Editor for many years of the journal Political Theology , Lloyd has shaped and influenced several discrete and overlapping conversations on religion and politics in the Global North. Lloyd's most recent book, Black Dignity: The Struggle Against …
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