Prof. Marcia Pally
Marcia Pally is Full Professor, adjunct, in Multilingual Multicultural Studies at New York University and held the Mercator Guest Professorship in the Theology Department at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, where she is an annual guest professor. Her research interests center on the intersection of culture, religion, and politics, with a focus on populism, US-American evangelicals, and theologies of relationality as a basis for economic and political policy. Marcia is an affiliated researcher at SCRIPTS, working in the forthcoming, themed focus group “religion.”
Recent Books
--White Evangelicals and Right-wing Populism: HOW DID WE GET HERE? (Routledge, 2022)
--From This Broken Hill I Sing to You: God, Sex, and Politics in the Work of Leonard Cohen (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
--Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines (Ed). (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
--Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality (Eerdmans, 2016)
--The New Evangelicals: Expanding the Vision of the Common Good (Eerdmans, 2011)
Selected, Recent Articles and Chapters:
--“White Evangelicals and American Right-wing Populism: The Evolutions of an Ethics,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (forthcoming, spring 2023)
--"How White American Evangelicals Came to Embrace Right-wing Populist Ethics," in The Routledge Companion to Christian Ethics, (forthcoming 2022) D. Stephen Long and Rebekah Miles, eds., Milton Park, Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge.
--"What Does Evolutionary Biology Tell Us about Relationality as a Basis for Economics and Politics?", in Assembling Futures: Economy, Ecology, Democracy, (forthcoming 2022), Jennifer Quigley and Catherine Keller, eds., New York: Fordham University Press.
--"The Nature of Humanity and the Origins of Religion: Contributions from Michael Tomasello," in The Philosophical and Theological Relevance of Evolutionary Anthropology. Engagements with Michael Tomasello, (forthcoming 2022), Martin Breul ed., Science and Religion series, Milton Park, Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge.
----"Why is Populism Persuasive? Populism as Expression of Religio-Cultural History with the U.S. and U.S. Evangelicals as a Case Study," Political Theology, (2020), Vol. 21 (5), pp. 393-414.
--"Why Vote Against Best Interests or Why is Populism Persuasive?" in Religion and Neo-Nationalism in Europe, (2020), Torsten Meireis, Florian Hoehne, eds., Baden-Baden: Nomos Press, pp. 361-376.
--“Philosophical Questions and Biological Findings: Part I: Human Cooperativity, Competition, and Aggression,” Zygon, (2020, Sept.), vol. 55 (4), pp. 1058-1089, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/BNSERMQBBZNFJZ7CE5KK?target=10.1111/zygo.12645 ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12645
--“Philosophical Questions and Biological Findings: Part II: Play, Art, Ritual, and Ritual Sacrifice, Zygon, (2020, Sept.), vol 55 (4), pp. 1090-1106. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author/JJAW8Z9DGWJUHJDDFDY7?target=10.1111/zygo.12657; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12657,
--“Evangelical Christians. Support for Trump and American Populism” in Theologische Literaturzeitung, (2019, Nov. 11), pp. 1084-1102, http://www.thlz.com/artikel/21154/?recherche=%26o%3Da%26autor%3DPally%26s%3D1%23r3
--“Relational Views of Humanness: The Reciprocity of Ontos and Telos,” in Studies in Christian Ethics, (2019, May 3), https://doi.org/10.1177/0953946819847958.
--"More than a resource: Covenant as a basis for societal organization," in, Religion and Democracy: Challenges and Resources in a Public Theological Perspective, (2017), Torsten Meireis and Rolf Schieder, eds., BadenBaden, Germany: Nomos Press, pp. 71-88.
Recent Publications in Public Interest Periodicals (selected)
--“The White Evangelical Vote: The Tragedy of How We Got Here,” Commonweal (forthcoming, fall 2022)
--“Trump and Jan.6 epitomize America’s history of us vs them,” The Hill,(2022, June 29)
--“The White Evangelical Vote: An Irony of American Religio-Political Culture,” Political Theology Network, (2022, May 22) https://politicaltheology.com/the-white-evangelical-vote-an-irony-of-american-religio-political-culture/
-- "Overturning Roe is a huge win for evangelicals. It won’t end their political game,” Religion News Service, (2022, May 13), https://religionnews.com/2022/05/13/overturning-roe-is-a-huge-win-for-evangelicals-it-wont-end-their-political-game/
--“Why do so many of America’s white evangelicals support Putin?” Religion & Ethics, (2022, April 19), https://www.abc.net.au/religion/why-do-american-white-evangelicals-support-putin/13846702
-- “A Baseline for Economics: Covenant, Trinity, Evolution,” Political Theology Network, (2020, July), https://politicaltheology.com/economics-politics-and-theologies-of-relationality/
Recent Media Appearances (selected)
--Exvangelical, Blake Chastain (forthcoming 2022, Sept).
--The Thom Hartmann Program (2022, July28), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV4YXdIICwk
--The Public Religion Research Institute, Robert Jones, (2022, July 8) https://robertpjones.substack.com/p/wtl-conversations-s2e12-an-interview
-- Word & Way, Rev. Beau Underwood and Brian Kaylor (2022, June 29) https://wordandway.org/2022/06/29/marcia-pally-on-white-evangelicals-right-wing-populism/
-- Veterans of the Culture Wars, Zach Malm and David Lester (2022, June 21) https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Ez10MslzBr7EdUoZIb387?si=BiGbYA8YRKi4JaaHKZ-3fw&nd=1
--The Telos Group, with Sam Perry, and Dave Davis (2022, April 22) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xwNqxsizPs