Daniel D Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel D Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel D |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Landmark College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5654-7588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Queer Panic
This essay utilizes a theory of social embodiment as an analytical frame for the consideration of contemporary Christian nationalists’ near obsession with criminalizing trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) embodiment and denying fundamental legal protections to TGNC individuals. It first presents a brief overview of Christian nationalism, understood as an expression of populist and nationalist identity, and Christian nationalists’ anti-TGNC effo…
American Christian Nationalism and the Meaning of “Religion”
American Christian nationalism highlights the entanglements of identity and power as they relate to the category of “religion.” Like many populist movements, Christian nationalism emerges out of a power-devaluation crisis stemming from the diminishment of White Christians’ social and political hegemony, coalescing around the affirmation that the US is a properly “Christian” nation. However, an examination of Christian nationalism reveals that the…
A Modest Reply to Timothy Fitzgerald
A reply to Timothy Fitzgerald’s “Religion, politics, history, and culture: A critical response to Daniel Miller” (2014)
The Populist Fantasy
This article offers an analysis of the populism that is currently ascendent in U.S. politics and society, which takes an ethno-nationalist form. This article argues that contemporary American ethno-nationalism is fantastical in character, rather than being based on empirical political or social concerns. Bringing together the well-established image of the social as the “body politic,” Slavoj Žižek’s theory of political fantasy, and the insights o…
The mystery of evangelical Trump support
Theocracy, Eschatology, and the Ephemeral Church
This article offers a critical assessment of Graham Ward’s political theology and critique of modern democracy. Ward argues that modern democracy expresses a nihilistic metaphysics and lacks an adequate account of the embodiment of sovereignty within the social, with the result that it tacitly harbors totalitarianism. As an alternative, Ward advances a theocratic model of the social, with the aim of providing an account of the social embodiment o…
The Politics of Religious Repetition
Otherwise diverse genealogical critiques of the discursive category “religion” share a concern to highlight the complicity of this category in colonial and neo-imperial projects, which are effected through the depoliticizing of non-Western subject populations. I argue that countering such depoliticization is more difficult than it may appear, and that some such critiques fall into a form of transcendental historicism that, in fact, further depoli…
A Theo-Politics of the (Im)proper
Scholars from a variety of disciplines have questioned the adequacy of secular liberal democracy as a model for the socio-political, leading to a number of responses. This article examines and critiques the socio-political proposal of the theologian Graham Ward, who argues that theological communities provide the only means of exceeding the play of commodified surfaces in the cultural context of advanced capitalism. The difficulty is that, due to…
The mystery of evangelical Trump support
The Politics of Religious Repetition
Otherwise diverse genealogical critiques of the discursive category “religion” share a concern to highlight the complicity of this category in colonial and neo-imperial projects, which are effected through the depoliticizing of non-Western subject populations. I argue that countering such depoliticization is more difficult than it may appear, and that some such critiques fall into a form of transcendental historicism that, in fact, further depoli…
A Theo-Politics of the (Im)proper
Scholars from a variety of disciplines have questioned the adequacy of secular liberal democracy as a model for the socio-political, leading to a number of responses. This article examines and critiques the socio-political proposal of the theologian Graham Ward, who argues that theological communities provide the only means of exceeding the play of commodified surfaces in the cultural context of advanced capitalism. The difficulty is that, due to…
The Politics of Religious Repetition
Otherwise diverse genealogical critiques of the discursive category “religion” share a concern to highlight the complicity of this category in colonial and neo-imperial projects, which are effected through the depoliticizing of non-Western subject populations. I argue that countering such depoliticization is more difficult than it may appear, and that some such critiques fall into a form of transcendental historicism that, in fact, further depoli…
Theocracy, Eschatology, and the Ephemeral Church
This article offers a critical assessment of Graham Ward’s political theology and critique of modern democracy. Ward argues that modern democracy expresses a nihilistic metaphysics and lacks an adequate account of the embodiment of sovereignty within the social, with the result that it tacitly harbors totalitarianism. As an alternative, Ward advances a theocratic model of the social, with the aim of providing an account of the social embodiment o…
The Populist Fantasy
This article offers an analysis of the populism that is currently ascendent in U.S. politics and society, which takes an ethno-nationalist form. This article argues that contemporary American ethno-nationalism is fantastical in character, rather than being based on empirical political or social concerns. Bringing together the well-established image of the social as the “body politic,” Slavoj Žižek’s theory of political fantasy, and the insights o…
The mystery of evangelical Trump support
A Modest Reply to Timothy Fitzgerald
A reply to Timothy Fitzgerald’s “Religion, politics, history, and culture: A critical response to Daniel Miller” (2014)
American Christian Nationalism and the Meaning of “Religion”
American Christian nationalism highlights the entanglements of identity and power as they relate to the category of “religion.” Like many populist movements, Christian nationalism emerges out of a power-devaluation crisis stemming from the diminishment of White Christians’ social and political hegemony, coalescing around the affirmation that the US is a properly “Christian” nation. However, an examination of Christian nationalism reveals that the…
Queer Panic
This essay utilizes a theory of social embodiment as an analytical frame for the consideration of contemporary Christian nationalists’ near obsession with criminalizing trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) embodiment and denying fundamental legal protections to TGNC individuals. It first presents a brief overview of Christian nationalism, understood as an expression of populist and nationalist identity, and Christian nationalists’ anti-TGNC effo…
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