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                ![Book Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI](https://files.jcrt.org/images/books/9781350602502.webp)

### [Book Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI](/religioustheory/posts/9781350602502/)

September 9, 2026 — By David Roome

David Roome reviews Yuk Hui’s Kant Machine, which recovers Kant’s critical philosophy as a diagnostic of what machine learning, artificial moral agency, and...

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                ![Book Review: American Empire, American Faith: Conquest, Christianity, and the Shaping of a Nation](https://files.jcrt.org/images/books/9781481324250.webp)

### [Book Review: American Empire, American Faith: Conquest, Christianity, and the Shaping of a Nation](/religioustheory/posts/9781481324250/)

September 3, 2026 — By Kev Grane

Kev Grane reviews Philip Jenkins’s American Empire, American Faith, which reframes U.S. empire as a religious and moral order in which Christianity authorized,...

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                ![BOOK REVIEW: YASCHA MOUNK, THE IDENTITY TRAP: A STORY OF IDEAS AND POWER IN OUR TIME.](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp)

### [BOOK REVIEW: YASCHA MOUNK, THE IDENTITY TRAP: A STORY OF IDEAS AND POWER IN OUR TIME.](/religioustheory/posts/9780593493205/)

August 18, 2026 — By Kev Grane

Kev Grane reviews Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap, whose sharpest contribution is showing how the identity synthesis undercuts its own egalitarian aims.

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                ![The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil, Part 2 (Mick Pope)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/09/thomas_cole_-_the_garden_of_eden_1828.webp)

### [The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil, Part 2 (Mick Pope)](/religioustheory/posts/the-image-of-god-and-our-vocation-of-the-soil-part-2-mick-pope/)

May 24, 2024 — By Mick Pope

The article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. It is generally recognised that the Garden story is more environmentally friendly

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                ![George Batailles On Ethnographic Surrealism And “The Limits Of The Useful” – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/08/joan_miro_-_dona_i_ocell_2.webp)

### [George Batailles On Ethnographic Surrealism And “The Limits Of The Useful” – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)](/religioustheory/posts/george-batailles-on-the-limits-of-the-useful/)

August 20, 2023 — By Matt Waggoner

Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful. Translated and edited by Corey Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2022. Hardback. 360 pages

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                ![Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 2 (Erik Meganck)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/12/retro-futurism.webp)

### [Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 2 (Erik Meganck)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-love-unblocking-the-road-from-athens-to-jerusalem-part-2-erik-meganck/)

December 15, 2022 — By Erik Meganck

The following is the second of a three part-series. The first can be found here. Love is not the opposite of planning; openness is not the opposite of

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                ![Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/10/august_labicana_massimo_inv56230_n2.webp)

### [Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-as-the-state-religion-of-neoliberalism-carl-raschke/)

September 7, 2022 — By Carl A. Raschke

> “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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                ![From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/05/dassanech_girl_omerate_ethiopia_21073880372-1.webp)

### [From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/from-holistic-to-in-between-theology-the-ethiopian-evangelical-church-mekane-yesus-part-2-rode-molla/)

April 30, 2022 — By Rode Molla

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Tumsa, as a theologian, focused on social justice and the hermeneutical

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                ![The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 1 (Michael C. Raubach)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/11/800px-wandbild_portrait_george_floyd_von_eme_street_art_im_mauerpark_berlin.webp)

### [The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 1 (Michael C. Raubach)](/religioustheory/posts/the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-michael-c-raubach/)

November 4, 2021 — By Michael C. Raubach

In her 1992 masterpiece, The Broken Middle, the philosopher Gillian Rose explored what she saw as a baleful crisis of ethics in modern political discourse

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                ![Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 2 (Florian Klug)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/07/800px-modern_art_gallery.webp)

### [Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 2 (Florian Klug)](/religioustheory/posts/truth-and-irony-beyond-binary-patterns-in-theological-reasoning-part-2-florian-klug/)

July 12, 2021 — By Florian Klug

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the Journal for

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                ![The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 2 (Alberto Urquidez)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/07/allan_ramsay_-_david_hume_1711_-_1776-_historian_and_philosopher_-_google_art_project.webp)

### [The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 2 (Alberto Urquidez)](/religioustheory/posts/the-religious-significance-of-miracles-why-humes-critique-is-superfluous-part-2-alberto-urquidez/)

July 22, 2020 — By Alberto Urquidez

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The question I shall now consider is this: If not all miracles are religious

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                ![Review -- What is Real? (Filippo Pietrogrande)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/10/posthumanism.webp)

### [Review -- What is Real? (Filippo Pietrogrande)](/religioustheory/posts/review-what-is-real-filippo-pietrogrande/)

January 24, 2020 — By Filippo Pietrogrande

Giorgio Agamben. What is Real? Trans. Lorenzo Chiesa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 88 pages. ISBN: 978-1-5036-0737-8

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                ![Review – Genealogies Of Mahayana Buddhism (Ananda Abeysekara)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/bhutan-3639580_960_720.webp)

### [Review – Genealogies Of Mahayana Buddhism (Ananda Abeysekara)](/religioustheory/posts/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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                ![The Irreducible (Jean-Luc Marion)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/08/vassily_kandinsky_1923_-_composition_8_huile_sur_toile_140_cm_x_201_cm_musee_guggenheim_new_york.webp)

### [The Irreducible (Jean-Luc Marion)](/religioustheory/posts/the-irreducible-jean-luc-marion/)

August 6, 2019 — By Jean-Luc Marion

Of that which we cannot speak, must we remain silent? Probably—especially if we understand why we cannot say anything about it, and have good reason for not

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                ![The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 2 (Gavin Hyman)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/05/slavoj_zizek_2011.webp)

### [The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 2 (Gavin Hyman)](/religioustheory/posts/the-new-hegel-and-the-question-of-god-part-2-gavin-hyman/)

May 31, 2019 — By Gavin Hyman

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. Slavoj Žižek’s return to God in the context of his wider return

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                ![Review – The Intimate Universal (Stephen Bujno)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/02/dhruv-weaver-618958-unsplash.webp)

### [Review – The Intimate Universal (Stephen Bujno)](/religioustheory/posts/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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                ![Review – The Enigmatic Absolute (Stanimir Panayotov)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/02/dewang-gupta-636342-unsplash.webp)

### [Review – The Enigmatic Absolute (Stanimir Panayotov)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-enigmatic-absolute-stanimir-panayotov/)

February 22, 2019 — By Stanimir Panayotov

*Joshua Ramey and Matthew S. Haar Farris (Eds.), Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: The Enigmatic Absolute 299 pages.

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                ![Review – Decolonizing Dialectics (Josiah Solis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/12/img_3597.webp)

### [Review – Decolonizing Dialectics (Josiah Solis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-decolonizing-dialectics-josiah-solis/)

November 30, 2018 — By Josiah Solis

*Ciccariello-Maher, George. Decolonizing Dialectics. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2017. 256 pages. ISBN-10: 0822362430 ISBN-10: 0822362430. It highlights

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                ![Inventing Afterlives – Review (Camille Grace Leon Angelo)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/10/anna_sahlsten_-_passage-1.webp)

### [Inventing Afterlives – Review (Camille Grace Leon Angelo)](/religioustheory/posts/inventing-afterlives-review-camille-grace-leon-angelo/)

October 22, 2018 — By Camille Grace Leon Angelo

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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                ![Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 2 (Philipp Valentini)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/09/img_2675.webp)

### [Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 2 (Philipp Valentini)](/religioustheory/posts/transmodern-sufism-or-stepping-with-levinas-on-the-footprints-of-a-speculative-sufism-not-re-framed-by-20th-century-orientalists-part-2-philipp-valentini/)

September 15, 2018 — By Philipp Valentini

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. A non-Paulinian theology understands the Law not as a whole but as

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                ![Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/09/dervish-ceremony.webp)

### [Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)](/religioustheory/posts/transmodern-sufism-or-stepping-with-levinas-on-the-footprints-of-a-speculative-sufism-not-re-framed-by-20th-century-orientalists-part-1-philipp-valentini/)

September 6, 2018 — By Philipp Valentini

> I am wondering if the agony of years > Could be traced to the seed of an hour > If the roots that spread out in the swamp > Ran too deep for the issuing

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                ![Review – Neurotheological Nuances (Joshua Canzona)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/08/munch-the-scream.webp)

### [Review – Neurotheological Nuances (Joshua Canzona)](/religioustheory/posts/review-neurotheological-nuances-joshua-canzona/)

August 22, 2018 — By Joshua Canzona

Neurotheology: How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality. Newberg, Andrew. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. ISBN 9780231179041. Hardback

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                ![Review – Medicinal Religion (Aaron Klink)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/07/style-meditation-state-colorful-world-0-4mp.webp)

### [Review – Medicinal Religion (Aaron Klink)](/religioustheory/posts/review-medicinal-religion-aaron-klink/)

August 2, 2018 — By Aaron Klink

*Balboni, Michael J. and Peteet, John R. eds. Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice ISBN 9780190272432 Hardcover.

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                ![Beyond Religious Ideas – The Legacy Of Max Weber In Critical Theory And Critical Religion (Joel Harrison)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/06/max-weber.webp)

### [Beyond Religious Ideas – The Legacy Of Max Weber In Critical Theory And Critical Religion (Joel Harrison)](/religioustheory/posts/beyond-religious-ideas-the-legacy-of-max-weber-in-critical-theory-and-critical-religion-joel-harrison/)

June 19, 2018 — By Joel Harrison

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 II (Kevin Lewis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/02/william_blake_-_satan_smiting_job_with_sore_boils_-_google_art_project.webp)

### [Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part II (Kevin Lewis)](/religioustheory/posts/mischief-idolatry-and-the-demonic-toward-a-hermeneutic-of-play-part-ii-kevin-lewis/)

May 28, 2018 — By Kevin Lewis

The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. We proceed first by a reminder of Scripture itself (which makes no

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                ![Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part I (Kevin Lewis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/05/img_0921-1.webp)

### [Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part I (Kevin Lewis)](/religioustheory/posts/mischief-idolatry-and-the-demonic-toward-a-hermeneutic-of-play-part-i-kevin-lewis/)

May 19, 2018 — By Kevin Lewis

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

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                ![Secularism And Its Discontents – On Charting Pathways With A Phenomenology Of Religion, Part 1 (Ludger Hagerdorn and Michael Staudigl)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/04/800px-michelangelo_moses-1.webp)

### [Secularism And Its Discontents – On Charting Pathways With A Phenomenology Of Religion, Part 1 (Ludger Hagerdorn and Michael Staudigl)](/religioustheory/posts/secularism-and-its-discontents-on-charting-pathways-with-a-phenomenology-of-religion-part-1-ludger-hagerdorn-and-michael-staudigl/)

April 21, 2018 — By Ludger Hagerdorn; Michael Staudigl

*The following is the introductory article for the Spring 2018 issue (Vol. 17, No. 2) of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights key

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                ![Review – The Ethics Of Time (Matthew Clemente)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/04/vasnetsov_samolet.webp)

### [Review – The Ethics Of Time (Matthew Clemente)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-ethics-of-time-matthew-clemente/)

April 17, 2018 — By Matthew Clemente

The Ethics of Time. Manoussakis, John. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781474299169. Hardback. 232 pages. John Manoussakis’s latest book, The Ethics of

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                ![Review – Reverent Irreverence (Amit Gvaryahu)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/03/alexej_von_jawlensky_-_the_old_jew_1893.webp)

### [Review – Reverent Irreverence (Amit Gvaryahu)](/religioustheory/posts/review-reverent-irreverence-amit-gvaryahu/)

April 5, 2018 — By Amit Gvaryahu

**Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism. Weiss, Dov. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. ISBN 9780812293050 Hardcover, ebook.

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                ![Review – An Uncritical Critique of Theism (Rebekah Gordon)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/03/jbcol.webp)

### [Review – An Uncritical Critique of Theism (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-an-uncritical-critique-of-theism-rebekah-gordon/)

March 7, 2018 — By Rebekah Gordon

Religion Within Reason. Cahn, Steven M. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780231181617. Paperback. 93 pages.** It is amazing that a book of less

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                ![Prayer After the Death of God, Part II (Ashley [Gay] Graham)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/02/img_0502.webp)

### [Prayer After the Death of God, Part II (Ashley [Gay] Graham)](/religioustheory/posts/prayer-after-the-death-of-god-part-ii-ashley-gay-graham/)

February 18, 2018 — By Ashley Graham

The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. This abandonment is not a permanent void; rather, it demonstrates

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                ![Review – Three Agambens on Display (S.J. Cowan)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/02/agamben-c2.webp)

### [Review – Three Agambens on Display (S.J. Cowan)](/religioustheory/posts/review-three-agambens-on-display-the-metaphysical-political-and-literary-components-of-agambens-philosophical-lineage-sj-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 – Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil: Negative Reactions to the Jewish Pre- and Post-Holocaust (Madison Tarleton)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/01/a867c350-b8ad-4896-b926-f0b71c0cb1f8.webp)

### [Review – Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil: Negative Reactions to the Jewish Pre- and Post-Holocaust (Madison Tarleton)](/religioustheory/posts/review-hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil-negative-reactions-to-jewish-people-pre-and-post-holocaust-madison-tarleton/)

January 14, 2018 — By Madison Tarleton

Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives. Basingstoke United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 It highlights

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                ![Review – French Perceptions of Muslim Sexuality (Trevor Wolff)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/01/ira_giotto.webp)

### [Review – French Perceptions of Muslim Sexuality (Trevor Wolff)](/religioustheory/posts/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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                ![Review – Power After Biopower, Or The Colonizing Of Perception (Adam Loch)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/11/picassoguernica.webp)

### [Review – Power After Biopower, Or The Colonizing Of Perception (Adam Loch)](/religioustheory/posts/review-power-after-biopower-or-the-colonizing-of-perception-adam-loch/)

November 28, 2017 — By Adam Loch

*Massumi, Brian. Ontopower: War, Powers, and the State of Perception. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2015. Hardcover, Paperback, E-book, ix + 320 pages.* A

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### [Review – Indebted to Asceticism (Hollis Phelps)](/religioustheory/posts/review-indebted-to-asceticism-hollis-phelps/)

November 14, 2017 — By Hollis Phelps

Stimilli, Elettra. **The Debt of the Living: Ascesis and Capitalism. Translated by Arianna Bove. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017. ISBN 9781438464152 It highlights

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### [Review – Reframing Schelling (Rolando Rodriguez)](/religioustheory/posts/review-reframing-schelling-rolando-rodriguez/)

November 4, 2017 — By Rolando Rodriguez

Daniel Whistler, **Schelling’s Theory of Symbolic Language: Forming the System of Identity (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013), 261 ppgs + xi**

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### [The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 1 (Brigid Burke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-mythology-of-afterlife-beliefs-and-their-impact-on-religious-conflict-part-1-brigid-burke/)

November 1, 2017 — By Brigid Burke

The question of whether there is life after death, and what that life might be like, is probably one of religion’s oldest questions It highlights key arguments

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### [Review—Whither Philosophy of Religion? (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-whither-philosophy-of-religion-benjamin-steele-fisher/)

October 27, 2017 — By Benjamin Steele-Fisher

**Religion and European Philosophy: Key Thinkers from Kant to Zizek. Edited by Philip Goodchild and Hollis Phelps. New York: Routledge, 2017 It highlights

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### [Review – The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/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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### [Review – The Contemplative Self after Michel Henry (Michael Saunders)](/religioustheory/posts/review-pilgrimage-and-world-a-review-of-joseph-riveras-the-contemplative-self-after-michel-henry-michael-saunders/)

June 29, 2017 — By Michael Saunders

*Rivera, Joseph. The Contemplative Self After Michel Henry: A Phenomenological Theology. Notre Dame: Notre Dame Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0268040605. 408 pages

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### [Review – Mysticism As Language Game (Adam Loch)](/religioustheory/posts/review-mysticism-as-language-game-adam-loch/)

June 15, 2017 — By Adam Loch

*Tugendhat, Ernst. Egocentricity and Mysticism: An Anthropological Study. Translated by Alexei Procyshyn and Mario Wenning ISBN-10: 0231169124. It highlights

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### [Review – Bahai Religion And Religious Cycles (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-bahai-religion-and-religious-cycles-rebekah-gordon/)

June 7, 2017 — By Rebekah Gordon

Sergeev, Mikhail. Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, and the Baha’i Faith. Amsterdam: Brill Rodopi, 2015. ISBN-10:9004300031. Paperback

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                ![Review – Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities (Dean Dettloff)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/05/img_1445.webp)

### [Review – Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities (Dean Dettloff)](/religioustheory/posts/review-ontic-flows-from-digital-humanities-to-posthumanities-dean-dettloff/)

May 25, 2017 — By Dean Dettloff

*Bernico, Matt, and Kölke, Manuela (Eds.). Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities. New York: Atropos Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 1940813085 It

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### [Review – Economy And Ontology From Agamben To Nancy (Taylor Weaver)](/religioustheory/posts/review-economy-and-ontology-from-agamben-to-nancy-taylor-weaver/)

May 23, 2017 — By Taylor Weaver

*Bird, Greg. Containing Community: From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy. Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4384-6185-4

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### [Review – Caputo’s “Spooky” Call To Theology (Rob Kennedy)](/religioustheory/posts/review-caputos-spooky-call-to-theology-rob-kennedy/)

May 15, 2017 — By Rob Kennedy

*Caputo, John D., Moody, Sarah, and DeLay, Tad., It Spooks: Living In Response To An Unheard Call. Rapid City SD: Shelter50 Publishing Collective, 2015

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### [Review – The Origins of Neoliberalism: A Racialized Review (Adam F. Braun)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-origins-of-neoliberalism-a-racialized-review-adam-f-braun/)

May 4, 2017 — By Adam F. Braun

*Leshem, Dotan. The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 0231177763

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### [Forging A Path From Theory To Theology – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)](/religioustheory/posts/forging-a-path-from-theory-to-theology-review-essay-matt-waggoner/)

April 11, 2017 — By Matt Waggoner

*Blanton, Ward. Crockett, Clayton. Robbins, Jeffrey. Vahanian, Noëlle. An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Insurrections:

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### [Review – A Stranger Thought For Stranger Times (Liam Burrell)](/religioustheory/posts/review-a-stranger-thought-for-stranger-times-liam-burrell/)

April 6, 2017 — By Liam Burrell

*Smith, Anthony Paul. Laruelle: A Stranger Thought. Cambridge: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 0745671233. Hardcover, paperback, e-book Hardcover, paperback, e-book.

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### [Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/untimely-meditations-on-techno-theology-and-theo-poetics-part-2-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

April 1, 2017 — By John Panteleimon Manoussakis

**The following is the second half of the article. The first installment can be found here.** Richard Kearney’s theopoetics offers an alternative to the

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                ![Review – The Metaphysics of Copresence in Beliso-De Jesùs’ Electric Santeria (Ryne Beddard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/santeria-cover.webp)

### [Review – The Metaphysics of Copresence in Beliso-De Jesùs’ Electric Santeria (Ryne Beddard)](/religioustheory/posts/review-copresence-and-ontography-in-beliso-de-jesus-electric-santeria-ryne-beddard/)

March 17, 2017 — By Ryne Beddard

* Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M. Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015 It highlights

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March 15, 2017 — By Konstantinos Kavoulakos

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)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/qumran-drawing.webp)

### [Foucault’s Disciplinary Society And The Community Rule Of Qumran (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/foucaults-disciplinary-society-and-the-community-rule-of-qumran-rebekah-gordon/)

March 10, 2017 — By Rebekah Gordon

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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### [Review – Theologies of the Boss (James Cochran)](/religioustheory/posts/review/)

March 2, 2017 — By James Cochran

*Yadin-Israel, Azzan. The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen. Highland Park: Lingua Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 0692718516

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February 16, 2017 — By Isaiah Dylan Ellis

* Brown, Wendy. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York: Zone Books, 2015. ISBN-10: 1935408534. Hardcover Hardcover. It highlights

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### [Review – Badiou Is Not Afraid of The Dark (Mason Davis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-badiou-is-not-afraid-of-the-dark-mason-davis/)

February 2, 2017 — By Mason Davis

*Badiou, Alain. Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color. Translated by Susan Spitzer. New Jersey: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 1509512071. Hardcover, paperback, e-book

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                ![Newest Titles For Review – Freud, Nussbaum, Angst, The Crucified God, Etc.](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/01/martha-nussbaum.webp)

### [Newest Titles For Review – Freud, Nussbaum, Angst, The Crucified God, Etc.](/religioustheory/posts/newest-titles-for-review-freud-nussbaum-angst-the-crucified-god-etc/)

January 27, 2017 — By editors

Religious Theory has just added new titles for which we are looking for reviewers (listed below). If you would like to review one of them, please send an email

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                ![Review – Judith Butler And The Different “Senses” Of The Subject (Matthew Waggoner)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/01/20897035259_73d12d6fb3_b.webp)

### [Review – Judith Butler And The Different “Senses” Of The Subject (Matthew Waggoner)](/religioustheory/posts/review-judith-butler-and-the-different-senses-of-the-subject-matthew-waggoner/)

January 9, 2017 — By Matthew Waggoner

Note: This review is also published simultaneously in the PDF special issue of JCRT 16.1. *Butler, Judith. Senses of the Subject Senses of the Subject.

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                ![Rethinking Anselm’s Atonement Theory –  “Unmaking” The Indebted Man (Ryne Beddard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/01/atonement-lg.webp)

### [Rethinking Anselm’s Atonement Theory – “Unmaking” The Indebted Man (Ryne Beddard)](/religioustheory/posts/rethinking-anselms-atonement-theory-unmaking-the-indebted-man-ryne-beddard/)

January 3, 2017 — By Ryne Beddard

Throughout Church history Christians have used various images and illustrations to explain why God became a human and died, and why these actions have been

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                ![Review – New Trends In The Theory And Methods For Studying Religion (David Kim)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/clock.webp)

### [Review – New Trends In The Theory And Methods For Studying Religion (David Kim)](/religioustheory/posts/review-new-trends-in-the-theory-and-methods-for-studying-religion-david-kim/)

December 29, 2016 — By David Kim

Kovács, Ábrahám, and James L. Cox, Editors. New Trends and Recurring Issues in the Study of Religion: Context and Overview. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2014

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                ![The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/selfport.webp)

### [The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-part-2-roger-green/)

December 26, 2016 — By Roger K. Green

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first installment, published on Dec. 19, 2016, can be found here. In Writing Degree Zero, Barthes suggests

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                ![The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 1 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/jnnocence1094.webp)

### [The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 1 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-roger-green/)

December 19, 2016 — By Roger K. Green

In his preface to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault asks the authors’ forgiveness for describing their book as the first book of ethics

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                ![Review – The Greatest Trick God Ever Pulled… (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/devil-fall.webp)

### [Review – The Greatest Trick God Ever Pulled… (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-greatest-trick-god-ever-pulled-benjamin-steele-fisher/)

December 8, 2016 — By Benjamin Steele-Fisher

*Kotsko, Adam. The Prince of this World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 1503600203. Hardcover, paperback, e-book It highlights key

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                ![Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 1 (Daniel Rhodes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/capitalism_0.webp)

### [Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 1 (Daniel Rhodes)](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-1-daniel-rhodes/)

December 1, 2016 — By Daniel Rhodes

In his long-awaited interjection into the debates on the future of Marxism after the collapse of Soviet state communism, Jacques Derrida introduces the notion

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### [Review – François Laruelle’s General Theory of Victims (John Matthew Allison)](/religioustheory/posts/review-francois-laruelles-general-theory-of-victims-john-matthew-allison/)

November 17, 2016 — By John Matthew Allison

*Laruelle, François. General Theory of Victims. Translated by Jessie Hock and Alex Dubilet. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0745679617 It highlights

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### [Review – Eugene Thacker’s “Cosmic Pessimism” (N.N. Trakakis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-eugene-thackers-cosmic-pessimism/)

October 27, 2016 — By N.N. Trakakis

*Thacker, Eugene. Cosmic Pessimism. Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2015. ISBN-10: 193756147X. E-book, paperback. 55 pages.* It might be worth quoting from

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### [Review – Caputo, The Unconditional, The Folly of God (Richard M. Allen)](/religioustheory/posts/review-caputo-the-unconditional-the-folly-of-god-richard-m-allen/)

October 13, 2016 — By Richard M. Allen

*Caputo, John D. The Folly of God: A Theology of the Unconditional. Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 1598151711. Paperback, e-book Paperback, e-book.

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### [Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 1 (Jodi Dean)](/religioustheory/posts/collective-desire-and-the-pathology-of-the-individual-jodi-dean/)

October 10, 2016 — By Jodi Dean

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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### [Review – Whence and Whither Posthumanism? (Bo Eberle)](/religioustheory/posts/review-whence-and-whither-posthumanism-bo-eberle/)

October 6, 2016 — By Bo Eberle

*White, Ryan. The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0231171005 Hardcover, e-book.

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### [Review – Raising the Vegetal Question (Hollis Phelps)](/religioustheory/posts/760/)

September 29, 2016 — By Hollis Phelps

*Irigaray, Luce and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives. New York, Columbia University Press, 2016 It highlights key

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### [Review – Aaron Hughes’ ‘Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity’ (Daniel Tutt)](/religioustheory/posts/exposing-the-pitfalls-of-constructive-theology-on-the-state-of-islamic-studies-today-daniel-tutt/)

September 22, 2016 — By Daniel Tutt

*Hughes, Aaron. Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity: An Inquiry into Disciplinary Apologetics and Self-Deception. London: Equinox Publishing, 2016 It

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### [Review – Of Politics and Motion (Joshua Lawrence)](/religioustheory/posts/review-of-politics-and-motion-joshua-lawrence/)

September 8, 2016 — By Joshua Lawrence

* Nail, Thomas. The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0804796580. 312 pages.* If the 21st century is indeed the century

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                ![Review – L.L. Welborn’s Synthesis of New Testament Scholarship and Critical Theory’s Recent Interest in the Apostle Paul (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/08/487px-caravaggio_-_conversione_di_san_paolo_odescalchi.webp)

### [Review – L.L. Welborn’s Synthesis of New Testament Scholarship and Critical Theory’s Recent Interest in the Apostle Paul (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-l-l-welborns-synthesis-of-new-testament-scholarship-and-critical-theorys-recent-interest-in-the-apostle-paul-benjamin-steele-fisher/)

August 25, 2016 — By Benjamin Steele-Fisher

*Welborn, Larry L. Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and

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### [Review – Love’s Unfortunate Presence between Faith and Belief (Daniel Boscaljon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-loves-unfortunate-presence-between-faith-and-belief-daniel-boscaljon/)

August 18, 2016 — By Daniel Boscaljon

*Schrijvers, Joeri. Between Faith and Belief: Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life (SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought) It

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### [Review – Giorgio Agamben and the Theory of Civil War (Ignas Kalpokas)](/religioustheory/posts/review-giorgio-agamben-and-the-theory-of-civil-war-kalpokas/)

August 11, 2016 — By Ignas Kalpokas

*Agamben, Giorgio. Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). Translated by Nicholas Heron Translated by Nicholas Heron.

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### [Review – A Darker, Grittier Deleuze (Timothy Snediker)](/religioustheory/posts/review-a-darker-grittier-deleuze/)

August 4, 2016 — By Timothy Snediker

*Culp, Andrew. Dark Deleuze (Forerunners: Ideas First). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. ISBN 10: 1517901332 Paperback, e-book It highlights

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July 28, 2016 — By Roger K. Green

* Osto, Douglas. Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016 It highlights key arguments

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July 21, 2016 — By Ryne Beddard

*Agamben, Giorgio. Pilate and Jesus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). Translated by Adam Kotsko. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015 It highlights

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### [What Is A Dispositif? – Part 2 (Gregg Lambert)](/religioustheory/posts/what-is-a-dispositif-part-2/)

July 18, 2016 — By Gregg Lambert

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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July 7, 2016 — By Jeff Appel

*Miller, Adam S. The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction. New York: Bloomsburg Academic, 2016 It highlights

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### [Review – The Evolution of the Religious Factor in Fantasy Role-Playing Games (Jeffrey Scholes)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-evolution-of-the-religious-factor-in-fantasy-role-playing-games/)

July 2, 2016 — By Jeffrey Scholes

*Laycock, Joseph P. Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds ISBN-10: 0520284925. It

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June 13, 2016 — By Ryne Beddard

*Badiou, Alain (with Nicolas Truong). In Praise of Theatre. New York: Polity, 2015. ISBN 10: 978-0-7456-8697-4. Hardback, paperback, e-book It highlights

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                ![Review – Donovan Schaefer’s Call For a Materialist Turn In Religious Theory (Jonathan Russell)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/06/busy-fall.webp)

### [Review – Donovan Schaefer’s Call For a Materialist Turn In Religious Theory (Jonathan Russell)](/religioustheory/posts/review-donovan-schaefers-call-for-a-materialist-turn-in-religious-theory/)

June 3, 2016 — By Jonathan Russell

*Schaefer, Donovan O. Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN 10: 978-0-8223-5982-1, 10: It highlights

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### [Review – Badiou and Gauchet on Capitalism and Democracy](/religioustheory/posts/review-badiou-and-gauchet-on-capitalism-and-democracy/)

May 12, 2016 — By editors

*Badiou, Alain and Gauchet, Marcel. What Is To Be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy. Translated by Susan Spitzer

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### [Review – Carl Raschke’s Force of God Hammers Out A Political Theology Of Insurrection/Resurrection For Our Times](/religioustheory/posts/review-carl-raschkes-force-of-god-hammers-out-a-political-theology-of-insurrection-resurrection-for-our-times/)

April 20, 2016 — By editors

Raschke, Carl. Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN-978-0231-17384-1 It

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### [Review – Jean-Pierre Couture Brings To Life The Ongoing Oeuvre of Peter Sloterdijk](/religioustheory/posts/review-jean-pierre-couture-brings-to-life-for-first-time-the-entire-works-of-sloterdijk/)

April 15, 2016 — By editors

*Couture, Jean-Pierre. Sloterdijk (Key Contemporary Thinkers). Boston: Polity, 2015. 208 pages. ISBN-10: 0745663818. Hardback, paperback, e-book, 208 pages

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### [Renegade Hinduism Scholar Featured In Norton’s Anthology of World Religions](/religioustheory/posts/renegade-hinduism-scholar-featured-in-nortons-anthology-of-world-religions/)

April 8, 2016 — By editors

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

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March 10, 2016 — By editors

The English reception of Peter Sloterdijk has been ambivalent at best, relying largely on hearsay from European interlocutors (Žižek especially) or gossip about

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