ABSTRACT
Race and Political Theology accelerates like a Gauss rifle at the nexus of Ancient Near Eastern and African diasporas. While the focus does not waver, the ivied scholars bring to bear expertise from diffuse disciplines, including ancient near eastern/middle eastern studies, law, religion, theology, political science, computer science, relativistic dynamics, British literature, German literature, political theory, American Studies, and Africana studies. Otto Brunner, as genealogical anchor, offers a new origin for political theology rather than the standard, Carl Schmitt. The essay then leaps forward, using Brunner as a template for understanding, among other issues, Maoist repatriation. Christoph Smidt's essay also displaces Schmitt via the corpus of journalist Wilhelm Stapel. Stapel synthesizes the trajectory of power from erotic desire, to family, household, city, principality, Reich, and Fuhrer to the face of Christ.
