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Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 3 (Nirvikar Singh)
The following is the third installment of a three part series. The first can be found here, the second here. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in
Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 2 (Nirvikar Singh)
The following is the second installment of a three part series. The first can be found here. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue
What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)
This article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. Taylor’s typification of postmodernism as Flatland, however, as the quintessential
What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)
Almost a half century ago a change took place in the humanities, and by extension in the fledgling field of religious studies It highlights key arguments
The Imagination In Spinoza – The Moral Good Between Prophecy And The Amor Dei Intellectualis, Part 2 (Caterina De Gaetano)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and
Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 2 (Magdalena Sedmak)
The following is the second of a two part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and
Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 1 (Magdalena Sedmak)
The following is the first of a two part series. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights
Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 3 (Rebekah Howes)
The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. The earlier article by Prof The earlier article by Prof.
Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 2 (Rebekah Howes)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The earlier article by Prof. Hyman to which the author replies can be found
Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 1 (Rebekah Howes)
The following is the first of a three-part series. The earlier article by Prof. Hyman to which the author replies can be found here It highlights key arguments
Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 1 (Erik Meganck)
Philo-sophy literally means “love of wisdom.” But this can be read in more than one way. There is the well-known objective genitive, proposing that philosophers
Orientalism, Ontology, And Orientation – A Muslim Perspective On Charles H. Long, Part 2 (Mehnaz Afridi)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The full article is published in the spring 2022 issue of the Journal for
Orientalism, Ontology, And Orientation – A Muslim Perspective On Charles H. Long, Part 1 (Mehnaz Afridi)
The following is the first of a two-part series. The full article is published in the spring 2022 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Legacy Of Charles H. Long – Resisting and Short-Circuiting the Discourses Of Exclusion In The Theory And Practice Of Administration (Victor E. Taylor)
The following essay introduces the upcoming volume of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory featuring reflections on the work of renowned religious
From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 3 (Rode Molla)
The comparison between evangelical Christianity and EOC Christianity is their approach to the language. The Westerners use the mother tongue to translate
From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 2 (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
From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 1 (Rode Molla)
The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus: Simultaneously Western and Indigenous Even though the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus has a Lutheran
Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 1 (Jake Sirota)
Jacques Derrida’s prolonged and intimate proximity to the thought of Martin Heidegger has played a significant role in the understanding and debate of Derrida’s
The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 1 (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
Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 3 (Florian Klug)
The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the
Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 2 (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
Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 1 (Florian Klug)
The following is the first of a three-part series. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 1 (Wendy Felese)
The following is the first of a two-part series. It was originally published at a 2019 conference in Athens, Greece.1 When teaching classes like World Religions
Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 4 (Kelly Maeshiro)
The following is the last of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here, the third here. Barth’s theology is in many ways contiguous with
Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)
The following is the third of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Philosophically speaking, Hegel’s Absolute idealism represented
Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 2 (Kelly Maeshiro)
The following is the second of a four-part series. The first can be found here. Kantian idealism for Hegel represents the “shape” of Spirit corresponding to
Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 1 (Kelly Maeshiro)
In the Christian tradition, the question of whether philosophy is necessary for theology, or even relevant to it, is a question almost as old as theology
The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 3 (Alberto Urquidez)
Surprisingly few commentators have advanced this basic criticism against Hume’s argument. One glaring exception is the Wittgensteinian philosopher of religion
Reframing The Adwa Victory As A Decolonizing Praxis – Discourse Around Colonization In The Ethiopian Context, Part 2 (Rode Molla)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Foucault, in his book, Discipline, and Punish, describes how the human body is
From The Gift Of Mortality To The Name Of God (Jakob Helmut Deibl)
The following is a continuation of a series of articles corresponding to chapters of the book Preis der Sterblichkeit: Christentum und Neuer Humanismus
The Irreducible (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
The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 3 (Gavin Hyman)
The following is the last installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. The second one can be found here. As Thomas A As Thomas A.
The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (Gavin Hyman)
Among recent developments in continental philosophy and religious thought, one of the most prominent has been a ‘return to Hegel.’ It has been exemplified in
Jonathan Edwards And The Vegan Elect – An Unconventional Calvinist Reading, Part 1 (Tadd Ruetenik)
In 1895, when Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity School of Christianity, first became a vegetarian, she said that “the appetite left me without my even
God And Salvation, Lecture 8 (Johannes Zachhuber)
This is the eighth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent lecture can be found here. The paper these lectures support is entitled “God, Christ, and
God As Person and Trinity, Lecture 7 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the seventh lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The possibility that God is person has often been
God And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the sixth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. I started the last couple of lectures with elaborate
Review – Performance Apophatics (John Matthew Allison)
*Claire Maria Chambers. Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Hardback Hardback. It highlights
God and History, Lecture 5 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the fifth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The existentialist approach you heard about last week
Religion And Mental Health – The Therapuetic Value Of The Teachings of Jesus, Part 2 (Thomas Roberts and Delbert Hayden)
The following is the second part in a two-part installment. You can find the first part here. Maintaining a State of Hope and Taking a Transcendent Perspective
Religion And Mental Health – The Therapeutic Value Of The Teachings Of Jesus , Part 1 (Thomas Roberts And Delbert Hayden)
The following is the first part in a two-part installment. The second part can be found here. Author Note: The authors of this article take the position that
Towards A New Comparative Methodology In Religious Studies (Kara Roberts)
Author Note: The following was originally written as the introduction to a much longer comparative project between two religious myths Amy Balogh. It highlights
God And Existence, Lecture 4 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the fourth lecture in an eight-part lecture series. Readers can also refer to lectures one, two, and three It highlights key arguments
Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 3 (Mark Murphy)
The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The second one can be found here The second one can be found here.
Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 1 (Mark Murphy)
Spiritual direction is defined as the help one gives to another in developing one’s relationship with the sacred, while the treatment of psychological symptoms
Negative Theology And Its Problems: Barth And Marion, Lecture 3 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the third lecture in an eight-lecture series. I have described in last week’s lecture how, during the 19th century, some serious challenges
The Dangers Of Dealing With Derrida – Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate On The “Religious” Reading Of Deconstruction, Part 3 (Neal DeRoo)
The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here, the second here. But one could embrace another prevalence for
The Dangers Of Dealing With Derrida – Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate On The “Religious” Reading Of Deconstruction, Part 2 (Neal DeRoo)
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. If deconstruction problematizes the idea of a ‘pure’ logical
The Dangers Of Dealing With Derrida – Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate On The “Religious” Reading Of Deconstruction, Part 1 (Neal DeRoo)
On the surface, the debate between John D. Caputo and Martin Hägglund in the Spring 2011 edition of The Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory seems to be a
Beyond Religious Ideas – The Legacy Of Max Weber In Critical Theory And Critical Religion (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
The Critique Of Theism – Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Lecture 2 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the second lecture in an eight-lecture series. The first can be found here. I introduced these lectures last week by pointing out the unique
Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part II (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
Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part I (Kevin Lewis)
Biblical hermeneutics, studied reflection upon interpretation of scriptural passages, has not remained static in method or approach over the centuries
Thinking About God In A Pluralistic World – The Challenge of Modern Theology, Lecture 1 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the first lecture in an eight lecture series. A couple of days ago, I read a column in a national newspaper whose title had a strange
Lutheran Theology and Postmodern Philosophy, Part II (Olli-Pekka Vaino)
The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. Postmodern thinking is generally suspicious against It highlights
Lutheran Theology And Postmodern Philosophy, Part I (Olli-Pekka Vaino)
Recently, Martin Luther and the Lutheran Reformation has received heavy criticism in various theological and philosophical circles It highlights key arguments
Review – The Ethics Of Time (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
Admitting A Certain Fear of Zizek’s Theology – A Modest Plea For A Deleuzian Reading Of The Death Of God (Elijah Prewitt-Davis)
I am told by Zizek—as well as Hegelian friends—that any attempt to argue or disagree with Hegel fits nicely within his dialectical scheme It highlights
Review – Reverent Irreverence (Amit Gvaryahu)
**Pious Irreverence: Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism. Weiss, Dov. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. ISBN 9780812293050 Hardcover, ebook.
The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part I (Oleg Komkov)
The following is the first part in a two-part installment. This article is an attempt to highlight and reflect on several interrelated issues that seem to be
Review – An Uncritical Critique of Theism (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
From Christology to Political Theology (Cyril Hovorun)
In the Christian Antiquity and later on during the Middle Ages, there was neither separation nor much distinction between the theological and the political
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Prayer After the Death of God, Part II (Ashley [Gay] 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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Prayer After The Death Of God, Part I (Ashley [Gay] Graham)
> Metaphysics is onto-theo-logy. Someone who has experienced theology in his own roots, both the theology of the Christian faith and that of philosophy, would
John the Possibilizer: The Promise of a Kearnian Baptismal Hermeneutic, Part II (Eric Trozzo)
The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. In Kearnian terms, then, the John portrayed by Luke is one who has
John the Possibilizer: The Promise of a Kearnian Baptismal Hermeneutic, Part I (Eric Trozzo)
The wild hair, the scratchy clothing, the grit and body odor, and the exotic diet. All of these images typically come to mind when one mentions John the
The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 2 (Brigid Burke)
The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. Zoroastrianism is believed to be an outgrowth of an
Slow Journalism? Ethnography as a Means of Understanding Religious Social Activism, Part 2 (James V. Spickard)
The following is a talk presented at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, and is the second installment of a two-part series
Slow Journalism? Ethnography As A Means Of Understanding Religious Social Activism, Part 1 (James V. Spickard)
The following is a talk presented at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, and is the first installment of a two-part series
Religious Studies and Comparative Theology – An Appraisal (Joshua Samuel)
The title “religious scholar,” it must be remembered, is a very ambiguous categorization. It could either mean those who are engaged in academic work in the
The One Is Not – On the Fate Of Unity in Post-Metaphysical Philosophy (Jussi Backman)
*A Turkish translation of a version of this essay has been published as “Bir, bir şey değildir: post-metafizik düşüncede birlik ve çokluğun akıbeti,” trans
Forging A Path From Theory To Theology – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)
*Blanton, Ward. Crockett, Clayton. Robbins, Jeffrey. Vahanian, Noëlle. An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Insurrections:
Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)
The following is the first half of the article. The second installment can be found here. Philosophy’s very first utterance, according to Aristotle, present us
Foucault’s Disciplinary Society And The Community Rule Of Qumran (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
The Place Of Das Ding – Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Religion, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)
The following article is the first installment of a two-part series. The second installment can be found here. “One, two, three, but where is the fourth?”
Lacan, Levinas, And The Politics Of The Subject (Joshua Lawrence)
Psychoanalysis has undeniably played a significant role in the development of theories critical of the social landscape It highlights key arguments and
Rethinking Anselm’s Atonement Theory – “Unmaking” The Indebted Man (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
The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger 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
The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 1 (Roger 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
Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 3 (Alan Jay Richard)
The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first installment can be accessed here. The second part can be found here It highlights
Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 2 (Alan Jay Richard)
The following is the second installment of a multi-part series. The first installment can be accessed here. As Tillich argues in the second dissertation, Kant
Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 1 (Alan Jay Richard)
One of the challenges of liberation theology is to think the radical political and social liberation of the oppressed in a way that is truly this-worldly
Love Strong as Death – Jews against Heidegger, On the Issue of Finitude – Part 2 (Agata Bielik-Robson)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first segment was published on July 25, 2016 and can be accessed here It highlights key arguments
Review – The Search For Transcendence In The “Material Phenomenology” of David Foster Wallace (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
Review – Donovan Schaefer’s Call For a Materialist Turn In Religious Theory (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
Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology” – Part 1
> 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