Author Bios

Author Bios

Mikel Burley is Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the University of Leeds. His books include Rebirth and the Stream of Life: A Philosophical Study of Reincarnation, Karma and Ethics (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Contemplating Religious Forms of Life: Wittgenstein and D. Z. Phillips (Continuum, 2012).

Vernon Cisney is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Gettysburg College. He is the author of Deleuze and Derrida: Difference and the Power of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press, 2018).

Jakob Helmut Deibl is Assistant Professor at the Faculty for Catholic Theology and Scientific Manager of the Research Centre for Religion and Transformation at the University of Vienna. From 2018-19 he worked at the Pontifico Ateneo Sant’Anselmo in Rome.

W. Ezekiel Goggin is Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Skidmore College. His research focuses on the role of religious imagination in conceptualizing modern accounts of freedom, chiefly at the historical intersections of post-Kantian philosophy of religion, phenomenology, critical theory and psychoanalysis.

Delbert J. Hayden is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Counselor Education at Western Kentucky University.

Patrice Haynes is Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Her research interests are sited at the interface between philosophy and theology and she is a co-founder of The Association of Continental Philosophy of Religion.

Tamsin Jones is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Trinity College, Connecticut. She is the author of A Genealogy of Marion’s Philosophy of Religion: Apparent Darkness (Indiana University Press, 2011) and has published articles in the Journal of Religion, the Journal of Theology and Sexuality, Political Theology, Sophia, and Modern Theology. She is currently working on a second book on the concept of “religious experience” as it is discussed in continental philosophy and against the backdrop of trauma theory.

Lucas McCracken is a doctoral student in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is translator along with Bradley Onishi of Emmanuel Falque, The Loving Struggle: Phenomenological and Theological Debates (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018).

Mark Murphy recently completed his Ph.D. at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham, London, School of Theology.

Bradley B. Onishi is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Skidmore College, author of The Sacrality of the Secular: Postmodern Philosophy of Religion (Columbia University Press, 2018) and is co-editor of Mysticism in the French Tradition: Eruptions from France (Routledge, 2016). He is also co-host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast.

Kara Roberts received her M.A. degree in Religious Studies from the University of Denver. She is formerly an assistant editor with the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory.

Thomas Roberts is Professor Emeritus and Past Chair of the Department of Child and Family Development at San Diego State University. His research involves the study of long-term marriages, the relationship of grandparenting to children’s socialization, remarried families (including the stepmother role, kinship networks, and the socialization of new family members), and the role of religion and ethical values on family development.

Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University; core faculty in the Science and Society Program; and affiliated faculty in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. She is the author of Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (Columbia University Press, 2009), Worlds Without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (Columbia University Press, 2014), and Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia University Press, 2018). She is also co-editor with Catherine Keller of Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms (Fordham University Press, 2017).

Tadd Ruetenik is Professor of Philosophy at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. He is the author of The Demons of William James: Religious Pragmatism Explores Unusual Mental States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Madison Tarleton is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology Doctorate of Religion. Her work intersects religion, media, and anti-Semitism and focuses on the shift between anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism—what the shift is, why it is important, and what imagery, media, and art can tell us about the historical precedents that led to the heightened tensions prior to World War II.