Hiro Miyazaki's guest appearances

Hiro Miyazaki

Globalization, Governance, and Norms

Caitlin Zaloom

Alister McGrath

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Christopher Hitchens

Charles Taylor

Cardinal McCarrick

Jim Wallis

Michael Kazin

Michael Gerson

Reinhold Niebuhr

Karenna Gore

Jose Casanova

Abdolkarim Soroush

OwlTail

November 14, 2008In this lecture, Professor Miyazaki examined personal hope as an emergent locus of articulation between the secular and the nonsecular in public debates about political and economic futures in the U.S. and Japan. From the recent encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI to the speeches of Barack Obama, hope has emerged as a key concept in the political theology of the present moment. Hiro Miyazaki seeks to bring the political-theological deployment of hope in conversation with current debates about the economy; in particular, turning to several recent efforts by Japanese public intellectuals to theorize Japan’s increasing inequality in terms of the uneven distribution of hope.

November 14, 2008<br>In this lecture, Professor Miyazaki examined personal hope as an emergent locus of articulation between the secular and the nonsecular in public debates about political and economic futures in the U.S. and Japan. From the recent encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI to the speeches of Barack Obama, hope has emerged as a key concept in the political theology of the present moment. Hiro Miyazaki seeks to bring the political-theological deployment of hope in conversation with current debates about the economy; in particular, turning to several recent efforts by Japanese public intellectuals to theorize Japan’s increasing inequality in terms of the uneven distribution of hope.

Hope In the Economy with Hiro Miyazaki