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# Archive Keyword: christianity

### [The International Law of Colonialism: The Doctrine of Discovery](/archives/25.1/miller/)

Robert J. Miller

Robert J. Miller traces how the Doctrine of Discovery became international law, enabling colonial claims over Indigenous land, rights and...

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### [Silencing the Doctrine of Discovery – The Brazilian Process: Accidental Discoveries, Secret Manuscripts, Imaginary Lines and Myths](/archives/24.2/alencar/)

Telma Alencar

Alencar traces how the Doctrine of Discovery shaped Brazil through church-backed silence, racial myths, and colonial violence, urging...

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### [The Medieval Origins of Religious White Supremacy: English Imperialism, Crusade Defeats, and the Doctrine of Discovery](/archives/24.2/callan/)

Maeve Callan

Callan traces how medieval English myths, crusade defeat, and Irish colonization shaped Christian white supremacy and fed the global...

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### [Metaphysical Protestantism: a Comparative Literary Ecology](/archives/23.1/johnson/)

Zane Johnson

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### [The Environmental Ethics of Pope Francis: Parsing Key Terms and Claims in Laudato Si](/archives/23.1/massaro/)

Thomas Massaro

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### [The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil](/archives/23.1/pope/)

Mick Pope

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### [The Solar Nun: the Prophetic Action and Thought of Sr. Paula Gonzalez, S.C](/archives/23.1/prewitt_davis/)

Elijah Prewitt-Davis

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### [Introducing Spirit Dance: Reconstructed / Spiritual Practices](/archives/22.2/hall/)

Joshua M. Hall

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### [John Boswell’s History of (Eurochristian) Sexuality and the Case for Transcendental Somatics.](/archives/22.1/wurts/)

Kieryn E. Wurts

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### [The Re-Enchantment of Bodies: the Transformative Power of Charismatic Healings in the “World of Phenomena”](/archives/22.1/magnasco/)

Anna-Maria Magnasco

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### [The Use and Abuse of the Expression “Christian Nationalism”](/archives/22.2/raschke/)

Carl A. Raschke

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### [Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness: Reflections from a Jew.](/archives/18.2/pessin/)

Sarah Pessin

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### [How to do things with words (of God)? Michel Henry’s Phenomenology of Religion](/archives/17.2/leclercq/)

Jean Leclercq

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### [Jesus‘ Spectral Intervention: Derrida, Christianity, And](/archives/17.1/taylor/)

Victor Taylor

Jesus, who was concerned till manhood with his own personal development, was free from the contagious sickness of his age and his people;...

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### [The Modern Philosophers‘ Paul: Reclaiming Pauline Introspection and Reviving Legacies of Anti-Judaism.](/archives/18.1/loland1/)

Ole Jakob LØLand

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### [Christianity and Contemporary Politics: the Conditions and Possibility of Faithful Witness.](/archives/12.3/alexander/)

Laura E. Alexander

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### [Interview with Thomas J. J. Altizer.](/archives/12.3/mccullough.altizer/)

Lissa McCullough

An interview of radical theologian Thomas J. J. Altizer is presented that includes consideration divine death promotion in Christianity;...

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### [Psalm Recitation and Post-Secular Time: Augustine, the Ipod, and Psalm 90.](/archives/12.2/britt/)

Brian Britt

The author encourages Biblical scholars to take into closer consideration the traditions of recitation and reception of the Book of Psalms,...

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### [Slow Reading: Learning the Time of the Body](/archives/12.2/mackendrick_2/)

Karmen MacKendrick

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### [Absolute Christ or ‘Wdcd?’: the Question of Christian Materiality in the Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic](/archives/11.2/taylor/)

Victor Taylor

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### [The Monstrosity of the Other](/archives/11.2/crockett/)

Clayton Crockett

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### [On the Pauline Roots of Biopolitics: Apostle Paul in Company with Foucault and Agamben](/archives/11.1/ojakangas/)

Mika Ojakangas

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### [On the Persistence of Cynic Motifs](/archives/11.1/fuggle/)

Sophie Fuggle

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### [Open Spaces, Liminal Places: the Deployment of the Sacred in the Open City](/archives/10.3/york/)

Jonathan David York

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### [Queering Kierkegaard: Sin, Sex, and Critical Theory](/archives/10.3/jaarsma/)

Ada S. Jaarsma

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### [The Pauline Ellipsis in Foucault’s Genealogy of Christianity](/archives/11.1/chrulew/)

Matthew Chrulew

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### [The Report of 1 Corinthians 5 in Critical Dialogue with Foucault](/archives/11.1/charles/)

Ronald Charles

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### [The Violence of Care: an Analysis of Foucault’s Pastor](/archives/11.1/mayes/)

Christopher Mayes

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### [September 11: Religious Perspectives on the Causes and Consequences](/archives/08.2/daponte/)

Paul J. DaPonte

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### [The Assumption of Desire: Kierkegaard, Lacan, and the Trauma of the Eucharist](/archives/09.1/pound/)

Marcus Pound

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### [The Shadow of the Anti-Christ: Nietzsche’s Critique of Christianity](/archives/08.3/cake/)

A. D. C. Cake

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### [Above All Earthly Pow’rs, David F. Wells](/archives/08.1/simmons/)

J. Aaron Simmons

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### [Neither/Nor: the Mutual Negation of S ØRen Kierkegaard’s Early Pseudonymous Voices](/archives/08.1/schmidt/)

Jochen Schmidt

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### [Already Not Yet](/archives/06.3/kotsko/)

Adam Kotsko

A review of Jean-Luc Nancy, La Déclosion : Déconstruction du christianisme, 1. Paris: Galilée, 2005. 248 pp. 30.00€ (paper). ISBN:...

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### [Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity](/archives/06.3/smith/)

James K. A. Smith

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### [Aristotle’s Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages](/archives/05.3/vahanian/)

Noëlle Vahanian

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### [Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures](/archives/05.3/keen/)

Daniel E. Rossi Keen

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### [The Puppet and the Dwarf: the Perverse Core of Christianity](/archives/05.2/woodard/)

Jared Woodard

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### [Religion and Modernity in Current Debate](/archives/04.2/pecora/)

Vincent P. Pecora

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### [The Christianization of Deconstruction](/archives/04.1/egginton/)

William Egginton

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### [Jesus Christ Holocaust: Fabulation of the Jews in Christian and Nazi Nistory](/archives/01.2/canning/)

Peter Canning

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