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Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) (University of Denver) ### [Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action](/archives/06.2/reid/) By [Colbey Emmerson-Reid](/authors/colbey-emmerson-reid/) (North Carolina State University, York College of Pennsylvania) ### [The Politics of Paul](/archives/06.2/robbins/) By [Jeffrey W Robbins](/authors/jeffrey-w-robbins/) (Lebanon Valley College, Le Moyne College) ### [Redeeming the Icons](/archives/06.2/stanley/) By [Timothy (Timothy W) Stanley](/authors/timothy-timothy-w-stanley/) (University of Manchester ) ### [The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in the Age of Terror](/archives/06.2/vahabzadeh/) By [Peyman Vahabzadeh](/authors/peyman-vahabzadeh/) (University of Victoria, Brock University) ### [Giving Up the Good: Adorno, Kierkegaard, and the Critique of Political Culture](/archives/06.2/waggoner.art/) By [Matthew Waggoner](/authors/matthew-waggoner/) ### [Death of a Discipline](/archives/06.2/waggoner/) By [Matthew Waggoner](/authors/matthew-waggoner/) ## [6.1 - winter - JCRT - Table of Contents](/archives/06.1/) New from JCRT - 6.1 Winter 2004 ### [Apocalyptic Materiality: Return(S) of Early Christian Motifs in Slavoj ŽIŽEk’s Depiction of the Materialist Subject](/archives/06.1/blanton/) By [Ward Blanton](/authors/ward-blanton/) (University of Glasgow, Luther College) ### [Judaism and Alterity in Blanchot and Levinas](/archives/06.1/brogan/) By [Michael J Brogan](/authors/michael-j-brogan/) (Villanova University) ### [Derrida, Jacques, 1930-2004](/archives/06.1/caputo/) By [John D Caputo](/authors/john-d-caputo/) (Syracuse University, Villanova Unive rsity) ### [Book Profile: Hand to Hand](/archives/06.1/clingerman/) By [Forrest Clingerman](/authors/forrest-clingerman/) (University of Iowa) ### [The Seduction of Unreason: the Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism](/archives/06.1/grieve-carlson/) By [Gary Grieve-Carlson](/authors/gary-grieve-carlson/) (Lebanon Valley College) ### [Recognizing the Sacrificial Victim: the Problem of Solidarity for Critical Social Theory](/archives/06.1/hoelzl/) By [Michael Hoelzl](/authors/michael-hoelzl/) (University of Manchester) ### [Playing Poker with Pascal: Theology in the American Casino](/archives/06.1/johnson/) By [Bradley A Johnson](/authors/bradley-a-johnson/) (University of Glasgow) ### [What the Doing Does: Religious Practice & the Problem of Meaning](/archives/06.1/jones/) By [Andrea Sun-Mee Jones](/authors/andrea-sun-mee-jones/) (Princeton University, Syracuse Univer sity) ### [A Theology of Engagement](/archives/06.1/michaud/) By [Derek Michaud](/authors/derek-michaud/) (Boston University) ### [Divisible Derridas](/archives/06.1/taylor/) By [Victor Taylor](/authors/victor-taylor/) (Independent Scholar) ### [The Passion of the Christ](/archives/06.1/vahanian/) By [Gabriel Vahanian](/authors/gabriel-vahanian/) (Marc Bloch University) ### [The American Spiritual Culture and the Invention of Jazz, Football, and the Movies](/archives/06.1/whiting/) By [Jenifer Whiting](/authors/jenifer-whiting/) (Drew University) ### [Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire](/archives/06.1/woodard/) By [Jared Woodard](/authors/jared-woodard/) (Fordham University, University of Edinburgh) ## [5.3 - summer - JCRT - Table of Contents](/archives/05.3/) New from JCRT - 5.3 Summer 2004 ### [I, Insect; or, Bataille and the Crush Freaks](/archives/05.3/biles/) By [Jeremy Biles](/authors/jeremy-biles/) (Chicago, Illinois) ### [Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age](/archives/05.3/biondo/) By [Vincent F Biondo](/authors/vincent-f-biondo/) (University of California, Santa Barbara) ### [The Making of American Liberal Theology 2 Idealism, Realism, and Modernity 1900-1950](/archives/05.3/duke/) By [James O Duke](/authors/james-o-duke/) (Texas Christian University) ### [On Translation](/archives/05.3/flato/) By [Jason Flato](/authors/jason-flato/) (University of Denver) ### [Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics](/archives/05.3/fodor/) By [Luke Fodor](/authors/luke-fodor/) (New York University) ### [Knocking on Heaven’s Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture](/archives/05.3/gilmour/) By [Michael J Gilmour](/authors/michael-j-gilmour/) (Providence College (Otterburne, Manitoba, Canada)) ### [Impossible God: Derrida’s Theology](/archives/05.3/igrek/) By [Apple Zefelius Igrek](/authors/apple-zefelius-igrek/) (Seattle University ,Vanderbilt University) ### [Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures](/archives/05.3/keen/) By [Daniel E Rossi Keen](/authors/daniel-e-rossi-keen/) (Ohio University) ### [Nihilism on a Rollercoaster?](/archives/05.3/mcpherson/) By [Ian McPherson](/authors/ian-mcpherson/) (University of Dundee) ### [Me++: the Cyborg Self and the Networked City](/archives/05.3/nayar/) By [Pramod K Nayar](/authors/pramod-k-nayar/) (University of Hyderabad, India) ### [On Escape](/archives/05.3/purcell/) By [Michael Purcell](/authors/michael-purcell/) (University of Edinburgh) ### [Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with JÜRgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida](/archives/05.3/reinhart/) By [David Reinhart](/authors/david-reinhart/) (DePaul University, Saint Xavier University) ### [A Post-National Theology of Empire](/archives/05.3/robbins/) By [Jeffrey W Robbins](/authors/jeffrey-w-robbins/) (Lebanon Valley College, Le Moyne College) ### [Approaches to Auschwitz: the Holocaust and Its Legacy](/archives/05.3/rodkey/) By [Christopher D Rodkey](/authors/christopher-d-rodkey/) (Lebanon Valley College, Drew University) ### [The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology](/archives/05.3/smith/) By [James K A Smith](/authors/james-k-a-smith/) (Calvin College ) ### [Body and Soul: a Sympathetic History of American Spiritualism](/archives/05.3/urbanczyk/) By [Aaron Urbanczyk](/authors/aaron-urbanczyk/) (Ave Maria University) ### [Broken Hegemonies](/archives/05.3/vahabzadeh/) By [Peyman Vahabzadeh](/authors/peyman-vahabzadeh/) (University of Victoria, Brock University) ### [Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages](/archives/05.3/vahanian/) By [Noëlle Vahanian](/authors/noelle-vahanian/) (Lebanon Valley College, LeMoyne College ) ## [5.2 - spring - JCRT - Table of Contents](/archives/05.2/) New from JCRT - 5.2 Spring 2004 ### [Love Among the Deconstructibles: a Response to Gregg Lambert](/archives/05.2/caputo/) By [John D Caputo](/authors/john-d-caputo/) (Syracuse University, Villanova Unive rsity) ### [Religion and Media](/archives/05.2/conroy/) By [Melissa Conroy](/authors/melissa-conroy/) (Muskingum University, Syracuse University) ### [Long Time Coming: Theology, Methodology, Cultural Theory](/archives/05.2/crockett/) By [Clayton Crockett](/authors/clayton-crockett/) (University of Central Arkansas, Wesley College, College of William and Mary) ### [The Return of the Prophet: a Dialogue](/archives/05.2/goodchild/) By [Richard Crudhington](/authors/richard-crudhington/) ; [Fiona Cranny](/authors/fiona-cranny/) ; [Sandra Burnup](/authors/sandra-burnup/) ; [Tom Eagle](/authors/tom-eagle/) ; [David Dandy](/authors/david-dandy/) ; [Charlotte Merriman](/authors/charlotte-merriman/) ; [Michael Cocksworth](/authors/michael-cocksworth/) ; [Philip Goodchild](/authors/philip-goodchild/) (University of Nottingham) ### [Capitalism and Religion: the Price of Piety](/archives/05.2/iyer/) By [Lars Iyer](/authors/lars-iyer/) (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) ### [Against Religion (‘without Religion’): a New Rationalist Reply to John D. Caputo’s on Religion](/archives/05.2/lambert/) By [Gregg Lambert](/authors/gregg-lambert/) (Syracuse University) ### [‘A Philosophy and Theology of Hyperinflation’: Walter Benjamin, Weimar and the New Thinking](/archives/05.2/lambrianou/) By [Nikolas Lambrianou](/authors/nikolas-lambrianou/) (Birkbeck, University of London) ### [Radical Islam and the Spectre of the Desert - Otherwise, the Call of Theory](/archives/05.2/raschke/) By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) (University of Denver) ### [Augustine and Modernity](/archives/05.2/ream/) By [Todd Ream](/authors/todd-ream/) (Baylor University) ### [Weak Theology](/archives/05.2/robbins/) By [Jeffrey W Robbins](/authors/jeffrey-w-robbins/) (Lebanon Valley College, Le Moyne College) ### [Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place](/archives/05.2/rodkey/) By [Christopher D Rodkey](/authors/christopher-d-rodkey/) (Lebanon Valley College, Drew University) ### [Theory Fever: Archivalism and the Future of Religious Studies](/archives/05.2/taylor/) By [Victor Taylor](/authors/victor-taylor/) (Independent Scholar) ### [Dialectic of the Past / Disjuncture of the Future: Derrida and Benjamin on the Concept of Messianism](/archives/05.2/ware/) By [Owen Ware](/authors/owen-ware/) (University of Victoria) ### [Science and Wisdom](/archives/05.2/weislogel/) By [Eric Weislogel](/authors/eric-weislogel/) (Metanexus Institute) ### [The Puppet and the Dwarf: the Perverse Core of Christianity](/archives/05.2/woodard/) By [Jared Woodard](/authors/jared-woodard/) (Fordham University, University of Edinburgh) ## [5.1 - winter - JCRT - Table of Contents](/archives/05.1/) New from JCRT - 5.1 Winter 2003 ### [Religion and Rationality: Essays on Reason, God, and Modernity](/archives/05.1/bain-selbo/) By [Eric Bain-Selbo](/authors/eric-bain-selbo/) (Western Kentucky University, Lebanon Valley College) ### [Anonymous God](/archives/05.1/fasching/) By [Darrell J Fasching](/authors/darrell-j-fasching/) (University of South Florida, Tampa) ### [Writing: the Transgression of Religion](/archives/05.1/hale/) By [David Hale](/authors/david-hale/) (Yampa College, University of Denver) ### [‘Write, Write’: Testimony, Judaism and the Infinite in Blanchot, Kofman and Levinas](/archives/05.1/iyer/) By [Lars Iyer](/authors/lars-iyer/) (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) ### [The Writing of Ethnography: Magical Realism and Michael Taussig](/archives/05.1/juschka/) By [Darlene M Juschka](/authors/darlene-m-juschka/) (University of Regina) ### [Seeing Is Believing: Warhol’s Spiritualizing of Materiality and the Need for the Historicizing of Postmodernism](/archives/05.1/lee/) By [C Jason Lee](/authors/c-jason-lee/) (St Martin’s College, Lancaster UK, University of Central Lancashire) ### [In the Wake of Edward Said](/archives/05.1/meeks/) By [John L Meeks](/authors/john-l-meeks/) (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago) ### [Cities of God](/archives/05.1/putt/) By [B Keith Putt](/authors/b-keith-putt/) (Samford University) ### [Bataille’s Gift](/archives/05.1/raschke/) By [Carl A. 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