Reading Simone Weil in East London: Destitution, decreation and the history of force
(2020)
Book Chapter
Rowlands, A. (2020). Reading Simone Weil in East London: Destitution, decreation and the history of force. In K. Kilby, & R. Davies (Eds.), Suffering and the Christian Life (113-132). T&T Clark. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567687265.0014
Outputs (6)
On the Promise and Limits of Politics: Faith-Based Responses to Asylum-Seeking (2018)
Book Chapter
Rowlands, A. (2018). On the Promise and Limits of Politics: Faith-Based Responses to Asylum-Seeking. In B. Ryan (Ed.), Fortress Britain? Ethical approaches to Immigration (68-93). Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Temporality, Dispossession and the Search for the Good: Interpreting the Book of Jeremiah with the Jesuit Refugee Service (2018)
Journal Article
Rowlands, A. (2018). Temporality, Dispossession and the Search for the Good: Interpreting the Book of Jeremiah with the Jesuit Refugee Service. Political Theology, 19(6), 517-536. https://doi.org/10.1080/1462317x.2018.1502908This article explores potential connections between the experience of contemporary forced migrants subject to destitution and detention policies in the UK and readings of the biblical text, including the Book of Jeremiah. Drawing from fieldwork inter... Read More about Temporality, Dispossession and the Search for the Good: Interpreting the Book of Jeremiah with the Jesuit Refugee Service.
Against the Manichees: Immigration Detention and the Shaping of the Theo-political Imagination (2018)
Book Chapter
Rowlands, A. (2018). Against the Manichees: Immigration Detention and the Shaping of the Theo-political Imagination. In U. Schmiedel, & G. Smith (Eds.), Religion in the European Refugee Crisis (163-187). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67961-7_9This chapter explores the practices of immigration detention examined through an Augustinian lens. Making a case for a metaphysical reading of contemporary immigration practices distilled from the reasoning of both detainees themselves and the theolo... Read More about Against the Manichees: Immigration Detention and the Shaping of the Theo-political Imagination.
T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology
Book
Phillips, E., Rowlands, A., & Daughton, A. (Eds.). T&T Clark Reader in Political Theology. Bloomsbury
Beginning in the Middle: the third city and the politics of membership
Book Chapter
Rowlands, A. Beginning in the Middle: the third city and the politics of membership. In J. B. Davis (Ed.), Misrecognitions. Wipf and Stock