Devin Singh
I am an Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College.
My work examines the intersections of religious thought with political and economic spheres in the West and in sites of colonial encounter. I research and teach on religion and politics, religion and economics, political theologies, as well as key figures and movements within the history of Christian thought, philosophy of religion, and ethics. I also focus on topics such as critical social theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, postcolonial thought, and social and business innovation and practice.
My first book, Divine Currency: Theological Power of Money in the West (Stanford, 2018), contributes to a genealogy of monetary economy by considering the theological dimension. I explore how early Christian thought made use of economic concepts and monetary practices to develop key doctrinal ideas such as redemption and divine governance, and how this close relationship has offered theological support to the economy’s development.
My second book, Economy and Modern Christian Thought (Brill 2022) provide an advanced introduction to the study of religion and economy, economic theology, and related topics. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty/researchers looking for a guide to the conversation about the relationship between Christianity and economics.
My third book, Sacred Debt (Harvard, under contract), provides guidance on how to think and speak about debt and it provides examination of how debt was used to structure key Christian doctrines about salvation. I claim that despite its well known critique of usury and moneylending, Christian thought provided support for debt instruments in ways that helped the credit economy of early capitalism flourish and justified penal and carceral practices as ideal forms of achieving justice.
For more information about me visit: www.devinsingh.com
To receive periodic updates about my research, join my mailing list: https://tinyurl.com/mshs8fta
To access full draft versions of all my publications, my work in progress, and original essays, and to participate in online discussions, check out my learning community: https://patreon.com/DevinSingh
Address: Department of Religion
Thornton Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
My work examines the intersections of religious thought with political and economic spheres in the West and in sites of colonial encounter. I research and teach on religion and politics, religion and economics, political theologies, as well as key figures and movements within the history of Christian thought, philosophy of religion, and ethics. I also focus on topics such as critical social theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, postcolonial thought, and social and business innovation and practice.
My first book, Divine Currency: Theological Power of Money in the West (Stanford, 2018), contributes to a genealogy of monetary economy by considering the theological dimension. I explore how early Christian thought made use of economic concepts and monetary practices to develop key doctrinal ideas such as redemption and divine governance, and how this close relationship has offered theological support to the economy’s development.
My second book, Economy and Modern Christian Thought (Brill 2022) provide an advanced introduction to the study of religion and economy, economic theology, and related topics. It is aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty/researchers looking for a guide to the conversation about the relationship between Christianity and economics.
My third book, Sacred Debt (Harvard, under contract), provides guidance on how to think and speak about debt and it provides examination of how debt was used to structure key Christian doctrines about salvation. I claim that despite its well known critique of usury and moneylending, Christian thought provided support for debt instruments in ways that helped the credit economy of early capitalism flourish and justified penal and carceral practices as ideal forms of achieving justice.
For more information about me visit: www.devinsingh.com
To receive periodic updates about my research, join my mailing list: https://tinyurl.com/mshs8fta
To access full draft versions of all my publications, my work in progress, and original essays, and to participate in online discussions, check out my learning community: https://patreon.com/DevinSingh
Address: Department of Religion
Thornton Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755
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Reimagining Leadership on the Commons includes leadership approaches derived from a complex, adaptive, open, whole systems perspective and a more relational, distributed, and collaborative paradigm that recognizes that rather than being individualist self-maximizers, people prefer to work together to share benefits and found a society based on ethical behavior, equality, and justice.
This is essential reading for researchers of commons, leadership practitioners, and non-profits working towards a more ethical, equitable, and just world.
Articles and Chapters by Devin Singh
The chapter proposes that obligated leadership is leadership that recognizes its position of mutuality and reciprocity with those led, and takes as a central task the construction of caring contexts for work, supported by transparency and trust. This approach can resist some of the problematic tendencies shaping work and leader- ship today that continue to draw on the legacy of debt in their operations. The author suggests that this approach may address some of the ethical concerns and moral dimensions of labor, which have been fraught with historical and cultural significance.
useful in shedding light on their respective theoretical systems and agendas. It is also worthwhile in opening up a political-theological analysis of a critical historical juncture in European thought and society signaled, if only in shorthand, by the Weimar period. My aim is not a simple exercise in comparative and contrastive analysis, however. Nor is it merely a historical retrieval of two Weimar era theoretical giants. My interest is in examining and problematizing the category of the theological-political itself