Steven G Ogden
Steven is adjunct lecturer in theology, and Research Fellow for the Center for Public and Contextual Theology (PACT), Charles Sturt University Australia. Previously, Steven has been the Principal of St Francis Theological College Brisbane, and the Dean of St Peter's Cathedral Adelaide.
Subjects: Religion
Biography
Steven Ogden is Research Fellow with the Public and Contextual Theology Centre, and adjunct lecturer in theology, at Charles Sturt University Australia. He is a member of The North American Foucault Circle, BioPolitica, The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, and The Political Theology Network. Steven is former principal of St Francis Theological College Brisbane and the Dean of St Peter's Cathedral Adelaide. His research interests include political theology, political philosophy, gender-based violence, and masculinity. He is interested in the work of Etienne Balibar, Judith Butler, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Michel Foucault, and Karl Rahner.Education
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BA, Monash University
BD, Melbourne College of Divinity
M.Th.St, Flinders University
Ph.D, Flinders University
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Steven is inquiring into the engagement between theology and culture, with an interest in gender and sexuality in particular, and human identity and theological anthropology in general. Subsequently, this has led him to a growing interest in the work of Michel Foucault. He is currently exploring questions of violence and masculinity, and the capacity for changing human behavior.
Personal Interests
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His interests include football, travel, modern Australian art, and walking on the Adelaide beaches.
Books
Articles
Political theology as transformative opposition
Published: Oct 07, 2021 by Political Theology Network
Authors: Steven G Ogden
Subjects:
Religion
This article explores the role political theology has in relation to strongman politics. Using insights from the work of Michel Foucault, I argue that theology has a role to play in embodying opposition to political violence. In particular, I explore the multivalent nature of opposition. Overall, political theology has a critical role in problematizing political violence.
Can we change our culture of masculine entitlement?
Published: Mar 24, 2021 by ABC, Religion and Ethics
Authors: Steven G Ogden
Subjects:
Gender & Intersectionality Studies
Certainly, the problem of entitlement is widespread. It is has figured prominently in the public debate surrounding abuse and sexual violence within politics itself. Entitlement, however, is a complex problem. It entails proprietorial thinking, as well as fear and shame, interacting at personal and cultural levels.
The problem of strong man politics
Published: Mar 16, 2020 by ABC, Religion and Ethics
Authors: Steven G Ogden
Subjects:
Gender & Intersectionality Studies
Using the trope of the strong man, I explore this masculine pattern of thought, speech and practice. Of course, there are gender issues here. The concept of gender is complex. In broad terms, gender patterns shape who we are establishing social and moral norms.
Round Table Discussion with Lynne Huffer, Steven Ogden, Paul Patton, and Jana Sawicki
Published: Jun 30, 2018 by Foucault Studies, No. 24, pp. 77-101, June 2018
Authors: Lynne Huffer, Steven Ogden, Paul Patton, and Jana Sawicki
Subjects:
Philosophy
The theme of this special section of Foucault Studies,“Foucauldian Spaces,” emerged out of the 2016 meeting of the Foucault Circle. In the round table discussion, we were asked to reflect on what makes a space Foucauldian, and whether or not the space created by the convergence of and intellectual exchanges among an international group of Foucault scholars at the University of New South Wales in the summer of 2016 to be Foucauldian.