Review – Donovan Schaefer’s Call For a Materialist Turn In Religious Theory (Jonathan Russell)
Schaefer, Donovan O. Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN 10: 978-0-8223-5982-1, 10: 978-0-8223-5990-6. Hardback, paperback, e-book. 304 pages. Donovan O. Schaefer’s Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power is at once a whirlwind introduction…
Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 1 (Roger Green)
The following is the first of a three-part series. The term “political theology” is currently used in a variety of ways in current debate over the place of liberalism amid world crises in politics and globalization. The most common version…
Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 1 (Padraic Fitzgerald)
The following is the first of a 3-part series. Biopolitics, as Michel Foucault argued, views populations through an economic lens, as capital to be preserved and multiplied to keep the nation or tradition afloat and strong. In the secular sphere,…
Theodicy of Money – The Scene and Subject of Forgiveness (Timothy Snediker)
Today the question of debt forgiveness has become an eminently practical, not to mention political, question. From sovereign debt crises in Greece, Spain, Puerto Rico and elsewhere, to ballooning student debt bubbles, to the aftermath of the mortgage crisis, it…
Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology”, Part 3
The following is Part 3 of a 3-part series by Victor Taylor on how one might reflect theologically on Jesus and the Christian message from a Derridean perspective that departs significantly from the work of John D. Caputo. The first…
Review – Badiou and Gauchet on Capitalism and Democracy
Badiou, Alain and Gauchet, Marcel. What Is To Be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy. Translated by Susan Spitzer. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2016. ISBN: 1509501703. Hardback, paperback, e-book, 168 pages. Alain Badiou and Marcel…
Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology”, Part 2
The following is Part 2 of a 3-part series by Victor Taylor on how one might reflect theologically on Jesus and the Christian message from a Derridean perspective that departs significantly from the work of John D. Caputo. The first…
More Sympathy for the Devil, or The State of Satan in The Age of Obama and Trump
Fifty years ago this weekend in the year 1966, according to lore and legend, San Francisco showman, musician, and self-professed huckster Howard Stanton Levey a.k.a. Anton Szandor LaVey founded the Church of Satan, proclaiming at the same time the advent…
Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology” – Part 1
Jesus, who was concerned till manhood with his own personal development, was free from the contagious sickness of his age and his people; free from the inhibited inertia which expends its one activity on the common needs and conveniences of…
Review – Carl Raschke’s Force of God Hammers Out A Political Theology Of Insurrection/Resurrection For Our Times
Raschke, Carl. Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN-978-0231-17384-1. Hardback, e-book. 202 pages. Carl Raschke’s Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy is a…