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Couture, Jean-Pierre. Sloterdijk (Key Contemporary Thinkers). Boston: Polity, 2015. 208 pages. ISBN-10: 0745663818. Hardback, paperback, e-book, 208 pages. Jean-Pierre Couture’s Sloterdijk is the first comprehensive introduction to the thought of contemporary German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk in English. Given the proliferation of English translations of Sloterdijk’s work in the last several years, and the wide-ranging, often […]
In the first installment of this three-part book preview of my forthcoming work on machismo in Latino culture I explored the role of the new, and “hot”, methodology of affect theory as a lens through which to achieve a radical, new set of insights about a somewhat contested phenomenon. In the second part I discussed […]
The just-released, multi-volume Norton Anthology of World Religions is a major project of substance undertaken by a group of world-renowned scholars in comparative religions. However, what makes it stand out is the contribution of Professor Kancha Ilaiah, who hails from an illiterate sudra shepherd family. In the four-level Hindu caste system the sudra are the […]
From time to time Religious Theory (RT) invites well-known academic authors to outline current book projects that have not yet been published. This second installment of the article, released in three parts, reflects a recent talk in California by Prof. Luis Leon, a well-known author of several key books on the theory of Latino religions […]
Recovering the Unconscious Call for Papers and Presentations A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion October 21-23, 2016 Denver, Colorado Sponsored by the University of Denver and the Colorado Analytic Forum of the Lacanian Field in Co-operation with the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory __________________________________________________________________ “We are all proletarians”, […]
From time to time Religious Theory (RT) invites well-known academic authors to outline current book projects that have not yet been published. This article, released in three parts, reflects a recent talk by Prof. Luis Leon, a well-known author of several key books on the theory of Latino religions and borderlands theory. On April 15, […]
Nietzsche’s advice to young authors was to never admit error, for our critics will neither give an inch nor forgive our humility in siding against ourselves. The aphorism’s hubris stands in stark contrast to the insecurity all -too-commonly felt when publishing for the first time. Last year, when I published my first book, God Is […]
Peter Sloterdijk, In the Shadow of Mount Sinai: A Footnote on the Origins and Changing Forms of Total Membership, Cambridge and Maiden MA: Polity Press, 2015. ISBN 10: 9780745699240. Hardcover, paperback, Kindle, 80 pages. Peter Sloterdijk, Stress and Freedom, Cambridge and Maiden MA: Polity Press, 2015. ISBN 10:9780745699295. Paperback, 80pp. The English reception of Peter […]
Notations is a feature of the JCRT’s Religious Theory weblog. From time to time we solicit pieces from contributors who are on the scene and able to theorize from the actual site of major world events. This week we publish a series of contributions from observers and scholars who have witnessed first-hand the European refugee crisis. […]
Notations is a feature of the JCRT’s Religious Theory weblog. From time to time we solicit pieces from contributors who are on the scene and able to theorize from the actual site of major world events. This week we publish a series of contributions from observers and scholars who have witnessed first-hand the European refugee crisis. […]