Joe Drexler-Dreis specializes in systematic theology. He particularly focuses on how theological reflection can offer ways of understanding the present historical situation, critiquing representations of meaning and value, and experimenting with new ways of expressing meaning. He teaches courses on liberation theology, the (in)significance of work and creativity within late capitalism, Christianity and racial capitalism, and political theology.
Research interests
Drexler-Dreis’s previous work contributes to liberation theology by bringing it into conversation with decolonial thought in the North Atlantic world. He has used these two traditions to offer critical and constructive accounts of christology and soteriology. His current work focuses on how political theology can explain structures of meaning within neoliberalism and express other meanings in modernity.
Selected publications
Books , “Brill Research Perspectives in Theology” series (Leiden: Brill, 2019)
(New York: Fordham University Press, 2019)
Articles
“: Possibilities of Theological Critique within Neoliberalism,” Louvian Studies 45, no. 1 (2022): 16–33
“: W. E. B. Du Bois and a Critical Political Theology,” Theory & Event 25, no. 2 (2022): 304–31
“: A Struggle Against the Fetishization of Our Present World,” Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society 48, no, 2 (2021): 302–19.
“: Latin American Liberation Theology in Conversation with Teología India and Womanist Theology,” Political Theology 18, no. 3 (2017): 269–86
“,” Journal of Africana Religions 3, no. 3 (2015): 251–78
Edited volumes
: Decolonial Visions of the Human, ed. Joseph Drexler-Dreis and Kristien Justaert (New York: Fordham University Press, 2020)
