The question of political theology is commonly framed around the Schmittian analysis of sovereignty and secularization in the Christian tradition. Over the last years, new epistemologies and studies on political theology are pluralizing the state of the art in a global context by including the histories of non-Western traditions and attending to cultural contexts outside of Europe. In this panel, we propose to look at the critical and decolonial alternatives to political theologies, considering their plural and contextual potentiality beyond the framework of the sovereign, liberal nation-state. By paying attention to race, gender, and coloniality in the co-constitution of religion and politics in various contexts, this panel strives to imagine alternative possibilities for understanding the ways in which politics and theologies are lived, embodied, contested, and instrumentalized.Chair: Emma Davis (Northwestern University)Speakers:Theo Poward (University of St Andrews), Decoloniality and PostsecularismEmma Davis (Northwestern University), Jewish Theoplitics and international orderYusuf Sezgin (UNC-Chapel Hill), Transnational Networks and The Rise of Decolonial Theologies in the Global South in the 1960 and 1970sMai Misaki (Kyoto University), Religious Sovereignty: Can it Bolster the Future of National Independence in French Polynesia? David Newheiser (Australian Catholic University), Miracles and Colonial Modernity: Opening Political-Theological Possibilities Stephen Di Trolio (Princeton Theological Seminary), The People of God: Enrique Dussel’s Populism as Political Theology