Revolutions of Loves

This essay offers eight reflections on the theme of revolutionary love, focusing particularly on the inherent dangers in such a theme as well as it possibilities. It explores whether or not it is primarily a Christian theme, and in such a guise, what its relation is to narratives of Christian American exceptionalism and the hatreds that undergird it. It asks about the inherently institutional and social forms love can take and challenges the notion that love is primarily an endeavour limited to the domestic and the intimate spheres of human life. It suggests the possibility of creating a language of love that has revolutionary potential for a larger body politic. Such a language, it insists, must be more than Christian, grounded in practices of interreligious engagement that express a commitment to racial and economic justice. Revolutions of this kind, it surmises, are socially engaged and have ethical, moral, and spiritual aspects.