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Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) (University of Denver) ### [Liberal Theology: a Radical Vision](/archives/09.3/robbins/) By [Jeffrey W Robbins](/authors/jeffrey-w-robbins/) (Lebanon Valley College, Le Moyne College) ### [Secularisms](/archives/09.3/seitz/) By [Jonathan A Seitz](/authors/jonathan-a-seitz/) (Centenary College) ### [The Fire Spreads: Holiness and Pentecostalism in the American South](/archives/09.3/shoemaker/) By [Stephen P Shoemaker](/authors/stephen-p-shoemaker/) (Harvard University) ### [The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze](/archives/09.3/smith/) By [Anthony Paul Smith](/authors/anthony-paul-smith/) (University of Nottingham) ## [9.2 - summer - JCRT - Table of Contents](/archives/09.2/) New from JCRT - 9.2 Summer 2008 ### [The Traps of the Sublime](/archives/09.2/bielik-robson/) By [Agata Bielik-Robson](/authors/agata-bielik-robson/) (University of Nottingham, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology Polish Academy of Sciences) ### [An Extrinsic Eagleton?](/archives/09.2/boer/) By [Roland Boer](/authors/roland-boer/) ### [The Sublime and the Messianic: a Reply to Agata Bielek-Robson](/archives/09.2/crockett/) By [Clayton Crockett](/authors/clayton-crockett/) (University of Central Arkansas, Wesley College, College of William and Mary) ### [Buddhism, Apophasis, Truth](/archives/09.2/d'amato/) By [Mario D'Amato](/authors/mario-d-amato/) (Rollins College) ### [From Representation to Constituent Power: Religion, or Something Like It, in Hardt and Negri’s Empire](/archives/09.2/fox/) By [Chris Fox](/authors/chris-fox/) (Newman University, Wichita, KS) ### [Politics and Perversion: Situating ŽIŽEk’s Paul](/archives/09.2/kotsko/) By [Adam Kotsko](/authors/adam-kotsko/) (Shimer College, Chicago Theological Seminary ) ### [Caute: Jonathan Israel’s Secular Modernity](/archives/09.2/leo/) By [Russ Leo](/authors/russ-leo/) (Duke University) ### [Chosen](/archives/09.2/rodkey/) By [Christopher D Rodkey](/authors/christopher-d-rodkey/) (Lebanon Valley College, Drew University) ## [9.1 - winter - Table of Contents](/archives/09.1/) ### [Apology and the Possibility of Ethical Politics](/archives/09.1/celermajer/) By [Danielle Celermajer](/authors/danielle-celermajer/) ### [Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement](/archives/09.1/grieve-carlson/) By [Gary Grieve-Carlson](/authors/gary-grieve-carlson/) (Lebanon Valley College) ### [Augustine on the ‘Nihil’: an Interrogation](/archives/09.1/hyman/) By [Gavin Hyman](/authors/gavin-hyman/) (University of Lancaster, UK) ### [Kierkegaard and Socrates: a Study in Philosophy and Faith](/archives/09.1/igrek/) By [Apple Zefelius Igrek](/authors/apple-zefelius-igrek/) (Seattle University ,Vanderbilt University) ### [Time and Money: Philosophy of Religion and the Critique of Capital](/archives/09.1/large/) By [William Large](/authors/william-large/) ### [A Conversation with Catherine Malabou](/archives/09.1/malabou/) By [Noëlle Vahanian](/authors/noelle-vahanian/) (Lebanon Valley College, LeMoyne College ) ; [Catherine Malabou](/authors/catherine-malabou/) ; [Carissa Devine](/authors/carissa-devine/) ### [Sovereignty: That Divine Ministry of the Affairs of Earthly Life](/archives/09.1/negri/) By [Antonio Negri](/authors/antonio-negri/) ; [Gabriele Fadini](/authors/gabriele-fadini/) ; [Robert Valgenti](/authors/robert-valgenti/) ### [The Assumption of Desire: Kierkegaard, Lacan, and the Trauma of the Eucharist](/archives/09.1/pound/) By [Marcus Pound](/authors/marcus-pound/) ### [The Religion of Politics: Concerning a Postmodern Political Theology ‘to Come’](/archives/09.1/raschke/) By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) (University of Denver) ### [Of Ghosts and Angels: Derrida, Kushner, and the Impossibility of Forgiveness](/archives/09.1/rubenstein/) By [Mary-Jane Rubenstein](/authors/mary-jane-rubenstein/) (Wesleyan University) ### [Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry](/archives/09.1/smaw/) By [Eric D Smaw](/authors/eric-d-smaw/) ## [8.3 - fall - Table of Contents](/archives/08.3/) ### [Creation Set Free: the Spirit as Liberator of Nature](/archives/08.3/ables/) By [Travis E (Travis Evan) Ables](/authors/travis-e-travis-evan-ables/) (Vanderbilt University) ### [The Shadow of the Anti-Christ: Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity](/archives/08.3/cake/) By [A D C Cake](/authors/a-d-c-cake/) (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) ### [Heart’s Blood: Derrida and Portia on Translation](/archives/08.3/eisenstadt/) By [Oona Eisenstadt](/authors/oona-eisenstadt/) (Pomona College) ### [Heart's Blood: Derrida and Portia on Translation](/archives/08.3/eisenstadt2/) By [Oona Eisenstadt](/authors/oona-eisenstadt/) (Pomona College) ### [Shylock After Auschwitz: the Merchant of Venice on the Post-Holocaust Stage – Subversion, Confrontation, and Provocation](/archives/08.3/horowitz/) By [Arthur Horowitz](/authors/arthur-horowitz/) (Pomona College) ### [Nihilism, and Emancipation: Ethics, Politics, Law](/archives/08.3/hyman/) By [Gavin Hyman](/authors/gavin-hyman/) (University of Lancaster, UK) ### [Shylock: the Knight of Faith?](/archives/08.3/jackson/) By [Kenneth S Jackson](/authors/kenneth-s-jackson/) (Wayne State University) ### [The Dare of Democracy: Fear, Faith and Freedom](/archives/08.3/keller/) By [Catherine Keller](/authors/catherine-keller/) (Drew University) ### [Avoiding Tragedy in the Merchant of Venice](/archives/08.3/kottman/) By [Paul A Kottman](/authors/paul-a-kottman/) (The New School) ### [Unfinished Business: a Response to the Symposium ‘the Merchant of Venice and Contemporary Theory’](/archives/08.3/kunin/) By [Aaron Kunin](/authors/aaron-kunin/) (Pomona College) ### [Shylock Between Exception and Emancipation: Shakespeare, Schmitt, Arendt](/archives/08.3/lupton/) By [Julia Reinhard Lupton](/authors/julia-reinhard-lupton/) (University of California, Irvine, UC Irvine) ### [Reading the Merchant of Venice Through Adorno](/archives/08.3/planinc/) By [Zdravko Planinc](/authors/zdravko-planinc/) (McMaster University) ### [Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation](/archives/08.3/ramey/) By [Joshua Delpech-Ramey](/authors/joshua-delpech-ramey/) (Rowan Universit, Villanova University) ### [God, Truth, and Witness: Engaging Stanley Hauerwas](/archives/08.3/simmons/) By [J Aaron Simmons](/authors/j-aaron-simmons/) (FURMAN UNIVERSITY, Hendrix College, Vanderbilt University) ← Newer Page 9 of 14 Older → [The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT)](https://jcrt.org) is an online, peer-reviewed, academic publication published by [The Whitestone Foundation](http://thewhitestonefoundation.org/), a 501c3 corporation located in Boulder, Colorado. 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