Unbegun Introductions
“Unbegun Introductions” maps the contemporary state of political theology, most significantly its engagement with postsecularism and autonomist Marxism; the contemporary fields of affect, queer temporality, and crip theories; and gives a brief introduction to process theology. This chapter maps the key fields with which the rest of the manuscript will then constructively play in order to bring to bear the significance of contemporary affect and crip theory for the doing of postmodern and political theology. Interspersed amongst this mapping are narrative scenes—personal stories that bring to the fore the way in which the moods of everyday life function as the contexts from which the assemblages of thinkers come to matter. The introductory chapter refuses to separate the personal mood from the political or philosophical one.