Jonathon Kahn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3836968 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathon Kahn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathon |
| FAMILY NAME | Kahn |
| SIGNATURE | KAHN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College , Poughkeepsie, New York, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Secularism
Students at the college where I teach—a nondenominational, liberal arts school in the northeast—have certain assumptions about the secularity of the United States. First, they broadly assume that the Constitution installs a wall of separation between church and state. Second, they assume that this wall ensures that governmental entanglement with religion—whether by its citizens giving voice to politics in explicitly religious terms, or by the gov…
When the Westboro Baptist Church Came to Vassar College
In 2013, the Westboro Baptist Church announced plans to picket Vassar College. This article recounts the quixotic attempt by student activists and myself to organize an embodied and affective form of counter-protest: a campus-wide act of foot-washing. Students were drawn to foot-washing because it represented an alternative model of knowledge formation based on awakening the affects of interaction and not achieving rational sovereignty. Despite f…
Pragmatism, Messianism, and Political Theology after Ted Smith’s Weird John Brown
How do we imagine our political lives, practices, and communities otherwise? This sort of question preoccupies folks who like to come together at the intersection of racial justice, religion, and philosophical thought. At one point in time, pragmatism would have been resoundingly spoken in these settings. Now, political theology is a language that is finding fresh expression among critics with these concerns. Is there a way for pragmatists to rej…
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Pragmatism, Messianism, and Political Theology after Ted Smith’s Weird John Brown
How do we imagine our political lives, practices, and communities otherwise? This sort of question preoccupies folks who like to come together at the intersection of racial justice, religion, and philosophical thought. At one point in time, pragmatism would have been resoundingly spoken in these settings. Now, political theology is a language that is finding fresh expression among critics with these concerns. Is there a way for pragmatists to rej…
When the Westboro Baptist Church Came to Vassar College
In 2013, the Westboro Baptist Church announced plans to picket Vassar College. This article recounts the quixotic attempt by student activists and myself to organize an embodied and affective form of counter-protest: a campus-wide act of foot-washing. Students were drawn to foot-washing because it represented an alternative model of knowledge formation based on awakening the affects of interaction and not achieving rational sovereignty. Despite f…
Secularism
Students at the college where I teach—a nondenominational, liberal arts school in the northeast—have certain assumptions about the secularity of the United States. First, they broadly assume that the Constitution installs a wall of separation between church and state. Second, they assume that this wall ensures that governmental entanglement with religion—whether by its citizens giving voice to politics in explicitly religious terms, or by the gov…
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