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Bell, Jr. ### [The Religion of Fear: Conservative Evangelicals, Identity, and Antiliberal Pop](/archives/08.2/bivins/) By [Jason Bivins](/authors/jason-bivins/) (North Carolina State University) ### [‘A Love as Strong as Death’: Reconstructing a Politics of Christian Love](/archives/08.2/costa/) By [Mario Costa](/authors/mario-costa/) (Drew University) ### [September 11: Religious Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences](/archives/08.2/daponte/) By [Paul J DaPonte](/authors/paul-j-daponte/) (Boston College) ### [A Conversation with Michael Hardt](/archives/08.2/davis-hardt/) By [Michael Hardt](/authors/michael-hardt/) (Duke University) ; [Creston Davis](/authors/creston-davis/) ; [Christopher W Haley](/authors/christopher-w-haley/) ; [Jason Craig](/authors/jason-craig/) ### [Glimmer of a New Leviathan: Total War in the Realism of Niebuhr, Morgenthau, and Waltz](/archives/08.2/grieve-carlson/) By [Gary Grieve-Carlson](/authors/gary-grieve-carlson/) (Lebanon Valley College) ### [Globalization and Its Enemies](/archives/08.2/johnson/) By [Diane E Johnson](/authors/diane-e-johnson/) (Lebanon Valley College) ### [The Return of the Sacred Man: Politics, Fundamentalism and Fright](/archives/08.2/little/) By [William Little](/authors/william-little/) (University of Victoria) ### [Religion, Politics, and the Christian Right: Post-9/11 Powers and American Empire](/archives/08.2/phelps/) By [Hollis Phelps](/authors/hollis-phelps/) (Mercer University, Claremont Graduate University ) ### [Religion, Democracy and the Politics of Fright: Editorial Introduction](/archives/08.2/robbins/) By [Jeffrey W Robbins](/authors/jeffrey-w-robbins/) (Lebanon Valley College, Le Moyne College) ### [A Roundtable on Globalization](/archives/08.2/roundtable/) By [Gianni Vattimo](/authors/gianni-vattimo/) (The University of Turin) ; [Charles Taylor](/authors/charles-taylor/) ; [Richard Rorty](/authors/richard-rorty/) ### [Theology and the Political: the New Debate](/archives/08.2/smith/) By [Anthony Paul Smith](/authors/anthony-paul-smith/) (University of Nottingham) ### [Democracy and Tradition](/archives/08.2/stahlberg/) By [Benjamin Stahlberg](/authors/benjamin-stahlberg/) (Syracuse University) ### [Measure and Democracy in the Age of Politics of Fright](/archives/08.2/vahabzadeh/) By [Peyman Vahabzadeh](/authors/peyman-vahabzadeh/) (University of Victoria, Brock University) ## [8.1 - winter - JCRT - Table of Contents](/archives/08.1/) New from JCRT - 8.1 Winter 2006 ### [America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity](/archives/08.1/alvis/) By [Robert E Alvis](/authors/robert-e-alvis/) (Saint Meinrad School of Theology) ### [Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir](/archives/08.1/bowman/) By [Donna Bowman](/authors/donna-bowman/) (University of Central Arkansas) ### [Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics: Rethinking Religion Through the Arts](/archives/08.1/buckingham/) By [Will Buckingham](/authors/will-buckingham/) (Staffordshire University) ### [Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity](/archives/08.1/burton/) By [Aaron V Burton](/authors/aaron-v-burton/) (Bowling Green State University) ### [A Reconstruction of the Theologies of Liberation:the Lacanian Corrective to the Ellacurian Synthesis](/archives/08.1/costoya/) By [Manuel Mejido Costoya](/authors/manuel-mejido-costoya/) ### [The Parallax View](/archives/08.1/kotsko/) By [Adam Kotsko](/authors/adam-kotsko/) (Shimer College, Chicago Theological Seminary ) ### [The Problem of Evil and the Problem of God](/archives/08.1/kroesbergen/) By [Hermen Kroesbergen](/authors/hermen-kroesbergen/) (Theological Academic Institute of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands) ### [Being and Event](/archives/08.1/miller/) By [Adam S Miller](/authors/adam-s-miller/) (Collin College, McKinney, TX, Villanova University ) ### [Transmitting Culture](/archives/08.1/nayar/) By [Pramod K Nayar](/authors/pramod-k-nayar/) (University of Hyderabad, India) ### [The Man Behind the Iron Mask: Marx and St. John on Repetition, Revelation and Revolution](/archives/08.1/nichols/) By [Joshua Nichols](/authors/joshua-nichols/) (:The University of Toronto) ### [The Task of the Critic: Poetics, Philosophy, Religion](/archives/08.1/oventile/) By [Robert Savino Oventile](/authors/robert-savino-oventile/) (Pasadena City College) ### [The Weakness of God...and of Theological Thought for That Matter: Acta Est Fabula Plaudite](/archives/08.1/raschke/) By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) (University of Denver) ### [Digital Nation: Toward an Inclusive Information Society](/archives/08.1/ritchie/) By [Jeff Ritchie](/authors/jeff-ritchie/) (Lebanon Valley College ) ### [Neither/Nor: the Mutual Negation of S ØRen Kierkegaard’s Early Pseudonymous Voices](/archives/08.1/schmidt/) By [Jochen Schmidt](/authors/jochen-schmidt/) (University of Paderborn, University of Bonn ) ### [Above All Earthly Pow’rs, David F. Wells](/archives/08.1/simmons/) By [J Aaron Simmons](/authors/j-aaron-simmons/) (FURMAN UNIVERSITY, Hendrix College, Vanderbilt University) ### [The End of Words: the Language of Reconciliation in a Culture of Violence](/archives/08.1/turrell/) By [Ford Turrell](/authors/ford-turrell/) (Nashville State Community College ) ### [ThÉOrie-RÉBellion: UN Ultimatum](/archives/08.1/vahanian/) By [Noëlle Vahanian](/authors/noelle-vahanian/) (Lebanon Valley College, LeMoyne College ) ### [The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers](/archives/08.1/waggoner/) By [Matthew Waggoner](/authors/matthew-waggoner/) ### [Does Human Rights Need God?](/archives/08.1/wright/) By [David B Dillard-Wright](/authors/david-b-dillard-wright/) (Drew University) ## [7.2 - spring - JCRT - Table of Contents](/archives/07.2/) New from JCRT - 7.2 Spring 2006 ### [Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture](/archives/07.2/bain-selbo/) By [Eric Bain-Selbo](/authors/eric-bain-selbo/) (Western Kentucky University, Lebanon Valley College) ### [Reflections on a Small Island: Hannah Arendt, Shakespeare’s the Tempest, and the Politics of Childhood](/archives/07.2/dahlgren/) By [Paul Dahlgren](/authors/paul-dahlgren/) (University of California, Irvine) ### [The Weakness of God: a Theology of the Event](/archives/07.2/heltzel/) By [Peter Goodwin Heltzel](/authors/peter-goodwin-heltzel/) (New York Theological Seminary) ### [Gems for Creatures: Care and Natality Between Hannah Arendt and Shakespeare](/archives/07.2/kolarov/) By [Viola Kolarov](/authors/viola-kolarov/) (University of California, Santa Barbara ) ### [Hannah Arendt’s Renaissance: Remarks on Natality](/archives/07.2/lupton/) By [Julia Reinhard Lupton](/authors/julia-reinhard-lupton/) (University of California, Irvine, UC Irvine) ### [The Sexual Politics of Pain: Hannah Arendt Meets Shakespeare’s Shrew](/archives/07.2/miller/) By [Nichole E Miller](/authors/nichole-e-miller/) (University of California, Irvine ) ### [Beginning to Think](/archives/07.2/robbins/) By [Jeffrey W Robbins](/authors/jeffrey-w-robbins/) (Lebanon Valley College, Le Moyne College) ### [Wittgenstein and Judaism: a Triumph of Concealment](/archives/07.2/saldino/) By [Andrew Saldino](/authors/andrew-saldino/) (Clemson U niversity ) ### [Disability Aesthetics](/archives/07.2/siebers/) By [Tobin Siebers](/authors/tobin-siebers/) (University of Michigan) ### [Giving an Account of Oneself](/archives/07.2/simmons/) By [J Aaron Simmons](/authors/j-aaron-simmons/) (FURMAN UNIVERSITY, Hendrix College, Vanderbilt University) ### [A Conversation with Jean-Luc Marion](/archives/07.2/taylor/) By [Victor Taylor](/authors/victor-taylor/) (Independent Scholar) ; [Jean-Luc Marion](/authors/jean-luc-marion/) (University of Chicago) ### [Derrida’s Bible: Reading a Page of Scripture with a Little Help from Derrida](/archives/07.2/turner/) By [Donald L Turner](/authors/donald-l-turner/) (Nashville State Community College) ## [7.1 - winter - JCRT - Table of Contents](/archives/07.1/) New from JCRT - 7.1 Winter 2005 ### [Holiness, Speech and Silence: Reflections on the Questions of God](/archives/07.1/bell/) By Daniel M. Bell, Jr. ### [Deleuze and Geophilosophy: a Guide and Glossary](/archives/07.1/buchanan/) By [Brian Buchanan](/authors/brian-buchanan/) (DePaul University ) ### [Pain and the Problems of the Body: ‘Ontological Frailty’ and a Political Reconsideration of the Corporeal Turn in Theology](/archives/07.1/geroux/) By [Robert Geroux](/authors/robert-geroux/) (Marian College ) ### [The Deconversion of Hent De Vries](/archives/07.1/gilgen/) By [Peter Gilgen](/authors/peter-gilgen/) (Cornell University ) ### [What Is Gnosticism?](/archives/07.1/holliday/) By [Lisa R Holliday](/authors/lisa-r-holliday/) ( The University of Kentucky ) ### [Bodies: the Exhibition](/archives/07.1/janz/) By [Bruce Janz](/authors/bruce-janz/) (University of Central Florida ) ### [History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn](/archives/07.1/knowlton/) By [B C Knowlton](/authors/b-c-knowlton/) (Assumption College ) ### [On Bullshit](/archives/07.1/lerner/) By [Berel Dov Lerner](/authors/berel-dov-lerner/) (Western Galilee College ) ### [Who Owns Native Culture?](/archives/07.1/lokensgard/) By [Kenneth H Lokensgard](/authors/kenneth-h-lokensgard/) (Gettysburg College,College of Charleston ) ### [Stare Decisis: (Forever) Lost in Translation](/archives/07.1/magee/) By [Neal Magee](/authors/neal-magee/) (Le Moyne College, Syracuse University) ### [Philosophy & Scripture in Book VII of Augustine’s Confessions](/archives/07.1/miller/) By [Adam S Miller](/authors/adam-s-miller/) (Collin College, McKinney, TX, Villanova University ) ### [Thought and Belief: the Attempt at Speculative Seeing in Hegel](/archives/07.1/segev/) By [Alon Segev](/authors/alon-segev/) (Philosophisches Seminar Ruprechts-Karl Universität, Heidelberg ) ### [Another Investigation of Postcolonial Failure](/archives/07.1/singh/) By [Bhrigupati Singh](/authors/bhrigupati-singh/) (Johns Hopkins University ) ### [A Conversation with Slavoj ŽIŽEk](/archives/07.1/taylor/) By [Victor Taylor](/authors/victor-taylor/) (Independent Scholar) ; [Slavoj Žižek](/authors/slavoj-zizek/) ### [Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption](/archives/07.1/vandeweg/) By [R M Van de Weg](/authors/r-m-van-de-weg/) (University of Edinburgh) ## [6.3 - fall - JCRT - Table of Contents](/archives/06.3/) New from JCRT - 6.3 Fall 2005 ### [True to Life: Why Truth Matters](/archives/06.3/bain-selbo/) By [Eric Bain-Selbo](/authors/eric-bain-selbo/) (Western Kentucky University, Lebanon Valley College) ### [Televised Morality: the Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer](/archives/06.3/benko/) By [Steven A. Benko](/authors/steven-a-benko/) (Meredith College ) ### [Prosthetic Gods](/archives/06.3/bowring/) By [Jacky Bowring](/authors/jacky-bowring/) (Lincoln University) ### [Counterpath: Travelling with Jacques Derrida](/archives/06.3/cauchi/) By [Mark Cauchi](/authors/mark-cauchi/) (York University ) ### [Did God Die in the Christian Century?](/archives/06.3/grimshaw/) By [Mike Grimshaw](/authors/mike-grimshaw/) (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) ### [Derrida, Said, and Infinity](/archives/06.3/harpham/) By [Geoffrey Galt Harpham](/authors/geoffrey-galt-harpham/) (National Humanities Center ) ### [Encyclopedias and Other Things: Some Recent Theology](/archives/06.3/hart/) By [Kevin Hart](/authors/kevin-hart/) (The University of Notre Dame ) ### [The Value of Solitude: the Ethics and Spirituality of Aloneness in Autobiography](/archives/06.3/klink/) By [Aaron Klink](/authors/aaron-klink/) (Duke University Divinity School, Yale Divinity School ) ### [Already Not Yet](/archives/06.3/kotsko/) By [Adam Kotsko](/authors/adam-kotsko/) (Shimer College, Chicago Theological Seminary ) ### [Truth and Genesis: Philosophy as Differential Ontology](/archives/06.3/linck/) By [Matthew S Linck](/authors/matthew-s-linck/) (Purchase College ) ### [William James and the Science of Religions: Reexperiencing the Varieties of Religious Experience](/archives/06.3/lorentzen/) By [Oz Lorentzen](/authors/oz-lorentzen/) (Prairie College, St. John Fisher College ) ### [The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology](/archives/06.3/nayar/) By [Pramod K Nayar](/authors/pramod-k-nayar/) (University of Hyderabad, India) ### [Doing Theology without God?: About the Reality of Faith in the 21st Century](/archives/06.3/neven/) By [Gerrit W Neven](/authors/gerrit-w-neven/) (Theological University Kampen) ### [Thinking Through the Death of God: a Critical Companion to Thomas J. 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