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Edward Hackett](/authors/j-edward-hackett/) (Savannah State University) ### [Horror Fiction and Catholic Theology - a Rhetorical Synthesis.](/archives/19.2/hurley/) By [Gavin Hurley](/authors/gavin-hurley/) (University of Providence) ### [The “New Hegel” and the Question of God](/archives/19.2/hyman/) By [Gavin Hyman](/authors/gavin-hyman/) (University of Lancaster, UK) ### [The Hollow Christians of End Times Fiction.](/archives/19.2/maltby/) By [Paul Maltby](/authors/paul-maltby/) (West Chester University) ### [The Irreducible.](/archives/19.2/marion/) By [Jean-Luc Marion](/authors/jean-luc-marion/) (University of Chicago) ### [The Reluctant Fundamentalist“ and the Inhospitable State - Abrahamic Hospitality and the Limits of Multiculturalism](/archives/19.2/mcavan/) By [EMILY McAVAN](/authors/emily-mcavan/) (Murdoch University) ### [Reframing the Adwa Victory as a Decolonizing Praxis: Discourse Around Colonization in the Ethiopian Context.](/archives/19.2/molla/) By [Rode Molla](/authors/rode-molla/) (Virginia Theological Seminary, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology) ### [Lacan and Pneumatology.](/archives/19.2/murphy/) By [Mark Murphy](/authors/mark-murphy/) (Saint Mary’s University) ### [To Not Lose Sight of the Good: Notes on the Zapatismo Ethic.](/archives/19.2/rosen/) By [Matt Rosen](/authors/matt-rosen/) (Colorado College) ### [Religious Studies: the Final Colonization of the American Indian.](/archives/19.2/tinker/) By [Tink Tinker](/authors/tink-tinker/) (wazhazhe/Osage Nation, Iliff School of Theology) ; [Osage Nation](/authors/osage-nation/) ## [19.1 - winter - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents](/archives/19.1/) A Whitestone Publication - Issue 19.1 Winter 2020 ### [Author Bios](/archives/19.1/bios/) By [Editorial Board of JCRT](/authors/editors/) ### [Altizer: Presence in Absence.](/archives/19.1/casey/) By [Edward S. Casey](/authors/edward-s-casey/) (Stony Brook University) ### [Altizer, My Theological Contemporary.](/archives/19.1/cobb/) By [John B. Cobb Jr.](/authors/john-b-cobb-jr/) (Claremont School of Theology) ### [Altizer and Incarnation.](/archives/19.1/dise/) By [Michael James Dise](/authors/michael-james-dise/) (Free University of Amsterdam) ### [Thinking the Absolute Edge Between Altizer and Leahy.](/archives/19.1/feld/) By [Alina N. Feld](/authors/alina-n-feld/) (Hofstra University) ### [Altizer and the Christian Epic Tradition.](/archives/19.1/franke/) By [William Franke](/authors/william-franke/) (Vanderbilt University) ### [Afterthinking Altizer: Redemption and the Divine Recusal.](/archives/19.1/hart/) By [Ray L. Hart](/authors/ray-l-hart/) (Boston University) ### [The Yes of Nietzsche and Hegel in Altizer](/archives/19.1/hass/) By [Andrew W. Hass](/authors/andrew-w-hass/) (University of Sterling) ### [Altizer’s Apocalyptic Jesus.](/archives/19.1/jennings/) By [Theodore W. Jennings](/authors/theodore-w-jennings/) (Chicago Theological Seminary) ### [Apocalypticism as Political Theology.](/archives/19.1/mccullough/) By [Lissa McCullough](/authors/lissa-mccullough/) (California State University at Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, Hanover College) ### [Divine Revelation in the Literal Expression.](/archives/19.1/quasha/) By [George Quasha](/authors/george-quasha/) (Barrytown, New York) ### [Altizer’s Theology in Context](/archives/19.1/raschke/) By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) (University of Denver) ### [Altizer and Deleuze: Material Metaphysics for Disastrous Times.](/archives/19.1/redell/) By [Petra Carlsson Redell](/authors/petra-carlsson-redell/) (Stockholm School of Theology ) ### [On Becoming a Radical Theologian.](/archives/19.1/rubenstein/) By [Richard L. Rubenstein](/authors/richard-l-rubenstein/) (University of Bridgeport) ### [Kenotic Theology, Buddhism, and Time.](/archives/19.1/schroeder/) By [Brian Shūdō Schroeder](/authors/brian-shudo-schroeder/) (Rochester Institute of Technology) ### [Altizer and Derrida: Apocalyptic Spectralities](/archives/19.1/taylor/) By [Victor Taylor](/authors/victor-taylor/) (Independent Scholar) ### [Apotheosis of the Nothing in Altizer’s Kenotic Atheology.](/archives/19.1/wolfson/) By [Elliot R. Wolfson](/authors/elliot-r-wolfson/) (University of California at Santa Barbara ) ## [18.3 - fall - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents](/archives/18.3/) PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND THE THEORY OF RELIGION - VOL. 18 NO. 3 (FALL 2019) ### [Author Bios](/archives/18.3/bios/) ### [“A Language in Which to Think of the World” – Animism, Indigenous Traditions, and the Deprovincialization of Philosophy of Religion.](/archives/18.3/burley/) By [Mikel Burley](/authors/mikel-burley/) (University of Leeds) ### [Something to Do with a Girl Named Marla: Eros and Gender in Fincher’s Fight Club.](/archives/18.3/cisney/) By [Vernon W. Cisney](/authors/vernon-w-cisney/) (Gettysburg College) ### [From Kant to HÖLderlin: Poetry and Religion in the Wake of Philosophical Aesthetics.](/archives/18.3/deibl/) By [Jakob Deibl](/authors/jakob-deibl/) (University of Vienna) ### [Transcendental Frustration: a Critical Re-Evaluation of the Hegelian Legacy for Philosophy of Religion.](/archives/18.3/goggin/) By [W. Ezekiel Goggin](/authors/w-ezekiel-goggin/) ### [Toward Decolonizing Philosophy of Religion: Thinking Heretically with African Indigenous Religions.](/archives/18.3/haynes/) By [Patrice Haynes](/authors/patrice-haynes/) (Liverpool Hope College) ### [Is Academic Theology an Answer to the Problem of Philosophy of Religion?](/archives/18.3/jones/) By [Tamsin Jones](/authors/tamsin-jones/) (Trinity College, University of Victoria) ### [A Note on Pre-Positions: Methodology in the Continental Philosophy of Religion.](/archives/18.3/mccracken/) By [Lucas Mccracken](/authors/lucas-mccracken/) (University of California at Santa Barbara) ### [Lacan as “Spiritual Director” – On the Relationship Between Psychoanalysis and Christian Mysticism](/archives/18.3/murphy/) By [Mark Murphy](/authors/mark-murphy/) (Saint Mary’s University) ### [Normative Encounters: a Radical Proposal for Philosophy of Religion.](/archives/18.3/onishi/) By [Bradley Onishi](/authors/bradley-onishi/) (Skidmore College) ### [Towards a New Comparative Methodology in Religious Studies.](/archives/18.3/roberts/) By [Kara Roberts](/authors/kara-roberts/) (University of Denver) ### [Religion and Mental Health : the Therapeutic Value of the Teachings of Jesus.](/archives/18.3/roberts_hayden/) By [Thomas Roberts](/authors/thomas-roberts/) (San Diego State University) ; [Delbert Hayden](/authors/delbert-hayden/) (Western Kentucky University) ### [Religion and Mental Health: the Therapeutic Value of the Teachings of Jesus](/archives/18.3/robertsandhayden/) By [Thomas Roberts](/authors/thomas-roberts/) (San Diego State University) ; [Delbert Hayden](/authors/delbert-hayden/) (Western Kentucky University) ### [Of the of: Genre, Generation, and the Continental Philosophy of Religion.](/archives/18.3/rubenstein/) By [Mary-Jane Rubenstein](/authors/mary-jane-rubenstein/) (Wesleyan University) ### [Jonathan Edwards and the Vegan Elect: an Unconventional Calvinist Reading.](/archives/18.3/ruetenik/) By [Tadd Ruetenik](/authors/tadd-ruetenik/) (St. Ambrose University) ### [Spaced and Placed: Hetero-‘Topic’ Interpretations of the Warsaw Ghetto.](/archives/18.3/tarleton/) By [Madison Tarleton](/authors/madison-tarleton/) (Uniiversity of Denver/Iliff School of Theology) ## [18.2 - spring - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents](/archives/18.2/) SPEAKING (OR NOT SPEAKING) OF GOD - VOL. 18 NO. 2 (SPRING 2019) ### [Speaking God’s Presence and Absence as Non-Contrastive Transcendent Distinction](/archives/18.2/Konigsburg/) By [Joyce Ann Konigsburg](/authors/joyce-ann-konigsburg/) ### [Author Bios](/archives/18.2/bios/) By [Editorial Board of JCRT](/authors/editors/) ### [The Dangers of Dealing with Derrida: Revisiting the Caputo-HÄGglund Debate on The](/archives/18.2/deroo/) By [Neal Deroo](/authors/neal-deroo/) (The King’s University) ### [God’s Absence as Textual Presence: the Radical (Literary) Theology of Northrop Frye.](/archives/18.2/fishley/) By [Daniel Fishley](/authors/daniel-fishley/) (Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto) ### [Divine Absence as Divine Presence.](/archives/18.2/giardino/) By [Joshua Giardino](/authors/joshua-giardino/) ### [Prayer After the Death of God.](/archives/18.2/graham/) By [Ashley Graham](/authors/ashley-graham/) (Emory University) ### [Fetish and the Erasure of Indigeneity](/archives/18.2/green/) By [Roger K Green](/authors/roger-k-green/) (Metropolitan State University, University of Denver) ### [New Religions in Brazil: a Game Between Relativism and Fundamentalism.](/archives/18.2/guerriero/) By [Silas Guerriero](/authors/silas-guerriero/) (Pontifical Catholic University) ### [Beyond Religious Ideas: the Legacy of Max Weber in Critical Theory and Critical Religion.](/archives/18.2/harrison/) By [Joel Harrison](/authors/joel-harrison/) (Northwestern University) ### [From Christology to Political Theology.](/archives/18.2/hovorun/) By [Cyril Hovorun](/authors/cyril-hovorun/) (Loyola Marymount University) ### [Mischief, Idolatry, and the Demonic: Toward a Hermeneutic of Play.](/archives/18.2/lewis/) By [Kevin Lewis](/authors/kevin-lewis/) (University of South Carolina) ### [Spring in Italy: Anna Karenina and the God Who May Be.](/archives/18.2/mcavan/) By [EMILY McAVAN](/authors/emily-mcavan/) (Murdoch University) ### [How to Avoid the God Who Chooses: Denials.](/archives/18.2/oliver/) By [Michael Oliver](/authors/michael-oliver/) (University of Oxford) ### [Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness: Reflections from a Jew.](/archives/18.2/pessin/) By [Sarah Pessin](/authors/sarah-pessin/) (University of Denver) ### [Admitting a Certain Fear of ŽIŽEk’s Theology: a Modest Plea for a Deleuzian Reading of the Death of God.](/archives/18.2/prewitt-davis/) By [Elijah Prewitt-Davis](/authors/elijah-prewitt-davis/) (Mount St. Joseph University, Drew University) ### [Admitting a Certain Fear of ŽIŽEk’s Theology: a Modest Plea for a Deleuzian Reading of the Death of God.](/archives/18.2/samuel/) By [Joshua Samuel](/authors/joshua-samuel/) (Union Theological Seminary) ### [If the Qur’an Is God’s Speech, How Does God Speak? Divine Speaking in Contemporary Muslim Discourse.](/archives/18.2/stanton/) By [Andrea L. Stanton](/authors/andrea-l-stanton/) (University of Denver) ### [John the Possibilizer: the Promise of a Kearnian Baptismal Hermeneutic.](/archives/18.2/trozzo/) By [Eric Trozzo](/authors/eric-trozzo/) (Sabah Theological Seminary) ### [Lutheran Theology and Postmodern Philosophy.](/archives/18.2/vaino/) By [Olli-Pekka Vaino](/authors/olli-pekka-vaino/) ## [18.1 - winter - Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory - Table of Contents](/archives/18.1/) RECOVERING THE UNCONSCIOUS - VOL. 18 NO. 1 (WINTER 2018-19) ### [Hanging Garlands of Flowers on the Chains That Bind: the Soft Totalitarianism of Technological Rationality and the Possibilities for Emancipatory Praxis.](/archives/18.1/appel/) By [Jeff Appel](/authors/jeff-appel/) (University of Denver) ### [Author Bios](/archives/18.1/bios/) By [Editorial Board of JCRT](/authors/editors/) ### [The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict.](/archives/18.1/burke2/) By [Brigid Burke](/authors/brigid-burke/) (Montclair State University) ### [Channeling Hate: Belief System Facilitation of Egodefense Mechanisms in the 1935 Rise of Social Credit in Alberta.](/archives/18.1/cook/) By [Derek Cook](/authors/derek-cook/) (Thompson Rivers University) ### [Plundering a Theory of Trauma - Confessions of a Novice Author on Lacan and Theology.](/archives/18.1/delay/) By [Tad Delay](/authors/tad-delay/) (Metropolitan State University of Denver) ### [Non-Ordinary States, Entheogens, and the Unconscious.](/archives/18.1/green/) By [Roger K Green](/authors/roger-k-green/) (Metropolitan State University, University of Denver) ### [The Vertical Form - the Iconological Dimension on 2oth Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism.](/archives/18.1/komkov2/) By [Oleg Komkov](/authors/oleg-komkov/) (Moscow State University) ### [Of the Ties That B(L)Ind.](/archives/18.1/koser/) By [Nate Koser](/authors/nate-koser/) (Licensed Professional Counselor) ### [The Modern Philosophers‘ Paul: Reclaiming Pauline Introspection and Reviving Legacies of Anti-Judaism.](/archives/18.1/loland1/) By [Ole Jakob Løland](/authors/ole-jakob-loland/) (niversity of Oslo) ### [Psychoanalysis, Veterans, and the Problem of the Real: or, on War and Enunciation.](/archives/18.1/mcandrew/) By [MICHAEL McANDREW](/authors/michael-mcandrew/) ### [Essence, Alienation, and the Economics of Libido.](/archives/18.1/pederson/) By [Trevor Pederson](/authors/trevor-pederson/) ### [The Secularizing Ethos and the End of Biblical Authority: How Today’s Evangelicals Abandoned Evangelicalism.](/archives/18.1/ramos1/) By [Joshua Ramos](/authors/joshua-ramos/) (University of Colorado, Denver) ### [Freud’s Sociogenesis, and Ours: The](/archives/18.1/richard/) By [Alan Jay Richard](/authors/alan-jay-richard/) (Realistic Living) ### [Framing Religious Conflict and Violence - Insights from Historical Institutionalism.](/archives/18.1/sharma2/) By [Vivek Swaroop Sharma](/authors/vivek-swaroop-sharma/) (Pomona College) ### [Slow Journalism? 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