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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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