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Religious Sacrificial Sympathy- How Man Became More Valuable Than Beast (Kevin S. Grane)

March 15, 2024 — By editors

The religious attitude of the West today demonstrates a consumerist ethos that would have been deeply foreign to the religious discourse of old It highlights

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Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 3 (Erik Meganck)

December 29, 2022 — By editors

The following is the third of a three part-series. The first can be found here, the second here. Where planning fails, despair grows Planning is also faithless.

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Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)

September 7, 2022 — By editors

> “Neptunus alii per alia, poterunt intellegi qui qualesque sint, quoque eos nomine consuetudo nuncupaverit, hoc eos et venerari et colere debemus.” – Cicero

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Critical Conversations – A Conversation With Arthur Bradley On Sovereignty, Part 2

June 9, 2022 — By editors

The following is the second part of a transcript of one of our ongoing “Critical Conversations” with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley

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The Fracturing Of World Order – A Series of International and Interdisciplinary Online Mini-Conferences, Call For Papers And Presentations (Announcement)

March 10, 2022 — By editors

The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and The New Polis in collaboration with representatives of the University of Denver announces a call for papers

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Let’s Get Real About Race – Two Very Timely Upcoming Online Seminars (Announcement)

August 23, 2021 — By editors

It’s time to get real when we talk these days about race and racism. Ever since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the late spring of 2020 at the

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Critical Conversations 9 – Economic Theology And The Indebtedness Of Everyday Life (Announcement)

April 19, 2021 — By editors

Participants are invited to join us live in the ninth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the

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Call For Presentations And Proposals – Decoloniality And Disintegration Of Western Cognitive Empire, Or Rethinking Sovereignty And Territoriality In The 21st Century (Announcement)

January 13, 2021 — By editors

The New Polis in collaboration with the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (part of The Whitestone Foundation of publications) announces a webinar-based

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“The End Of Cognitive Empire” (Critical Conversations)

September 9, 2020 — By editors

The following is the video and transcript of the first of “Critical Conversations”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by The New Polis

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“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 2 (James E. Willis, III)

May 9, 2020 — By editors

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. A philosophy of finite human time is one way to read Martin Hägglund’s recent

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To Not Lose Sight Of The Good – Notes On The Zapatismo Ethic, Part 2 (Matt Rosen)

January 21, 2020 — By editors

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The recasting of the field of three against the field of two, which is the field

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To Not Lose Sight Of The Good – Notes On The Zapatismo Ethic, Part 1 (Matt Rosen)

January 14, 2020 — By editors

On the first of January 1994, as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army

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Review – Genealogies Of Mahayana Buddhism (Ananda Abeysekara)

October 23, 2019 — By Ananda Abeysekara

Joseph Walser, Genealogies of Mahāyāna Buddhism: Emptiness, Power, and the Question of Origin. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2018. 288 pages. IBSN:...

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Call For Papers – Special Issue On Walter Benjamin And Religion

April 30, 2019 — By editors

What does Walter Benjamin’s work suggest about religion and the methods of studying it? This special issue of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Studies

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Review – The Intimate Universal (Stephen Bujno)

March 8, 2019 — By Stephen Bujno

*William Desmond, The Intimate Universal: The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics. Columbia University Press, 2016. 520 pages

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Inventing Afterlives – Review (Camille Grace Leon Angelo)

October 22, 2018 — By editors

Janes, Regina M. Inventing Afterlives: The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Life After Death. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018. 384 pages 384 pages.

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Beyond Religious Ideas – The Legacy Of Max Weber In Critical Theory And Critical Religion (Joel Harrison)

June 19, 2018 — By editors

This article was initially published in The New Polis, March 23, 2018. In his essay “The Failure of Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion,” Donald Wiebe

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Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part I (Kevin Lewis)

May 19, 2018 — By editors

Biblical hermeneutics, studied reflection upon interpretation of scriptural passages, has not remained static in method or approach over the centuries

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The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part II (Oleg Komkov)

March 31, 2018 — By editors

The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. II. “Absolute Symbolism” of Christian Worldview: The Aesthetic

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Announcing “The New Polis” – An E-Publication On Critical Theory, Cultural Analysis, And Political Thought

March 16, 2018 — By editors

The directors of The Whitestone Foundation, the Colorado-based 501(c)3 non-profit corporation that has published The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

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Call for Contributors – The Dialectic of Divine Presence and Absence

February 14, 2018 — By editors

Since the philosopher Nietzsche announced the “death of God” over a century ago, the specter of divine absence has hovered over Western civilization It

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Review – Three Agambens on Display (S.J. Cowan)

February 6, 2018 — By S.J. Cowan

Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage. Edited by Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 1474423647 ISBN-10: 1474423647.

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Review – French Perceptions of Muslim Sexuality (Trevor Wolff)

January 5, 2018 — By Trevor Wolff

Mack, Mehammed Amadeus. Sexagon: Muslims, France, and the Sexualization of National Culture. New York City NY: Fordham University Press, 2017 It highlights

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Looking For Reviewers

January 2, 2018 — By editors

We are looking for authors to review the a variety books in different topic areas related to religious and cultural theory It highlights key arguments

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“Notations” – Call for Contributors

January 1, 2018 — By editors

In addition to reviews and commentaries, the new JCRT feature “religious theory” (jcrt.org/religioustheory), updated regularly, will publish in an ongoing

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Review – The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Rebekah Gordon)

October 13, 2017 — By Rebekah Gordon

*Fitzgerald, Francis. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America. New York City, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. ISBN-10: 1439131333. Hardcover

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Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 1 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)

September 12, 2017 — By editors

Killing hundreds of people in the name of “cow protection” would, at first glance, appear to be a headline drawn from a Monty Python skit It highlights

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The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)

July 4, 2017 — By editors

This article appears in three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk Conference

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Philosophical Anthropology or Philosophy of Praxis? Axel Honneth and Andrew Feenberg on Lukács’ Theory of Reification (Konstantinos Kavoulakos)

March 15, 2017 — By editors

Axel Honneth’s Reification. A New Look at an Old Idea (2008) and Andrew Feenberg’s Philosophy of Praxis (2014) represent two recent publications, which give a

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Foucault’s Disciplinary Society And The Community Rule Of Qumran (Rebekah Gordon)

March 10, 2017 — By editors

In his 1975 work Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault uses the lens of prison and society to examine the ways in which power structures act upon the

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Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 2 (Jodi Dean)

October 19, 2016 — By editors

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment was published on October 10 and can be accessed here It highlights

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Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 1 (Jodi Dean)

October 10, 2016 — By editors

An interesting strand of contemporary theory designates the specificity of capitalism with the qualifier “cognitive.” I do not write under this term, although I

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Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 2 (Daniel Tutt)

September 13, 2016 — By editors

The following is the second installment of a two-part article by Daniel Tutt entitled “Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology.” It has been

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Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 1 (Daniel Tutt)

September 5, 2016 — By editors

The following is the first installment of a two-part article by Daniel Tutt entitled “Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology.” It has been

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What Is A Dispositif? – Part 2 (Gregg Lambert)

July 18, 2016 — By editors

The following article by internationally known theory scholar Gregg Lambert is the second of a two-part series. The first part was published on July 11, 2016

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What Is A Dispositif? – Part 1 (Gregg Lambert)

July 11, 2016 — By editors

The following article by internationally known theory scholar Gregg Lambert is the first of a two-part series. The concept of “dispositif” is best known as a

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Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology”, Part 3

May 14, 2016 — By editors

The following is Part 3 of a 3-part series by Victor Taylor on how one might reflect theologically on Jesus and the Christian message from a Derridean

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Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology”, Part 2

May 6, 2016 — By editors

The following is Part 2 of a 3-part series by Victor Taylor on how one might reflect theologically on Jesus and the Christian message from a Derridean

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Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology” – Part 1

April 27, 2016 — By editors

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

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