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Religion and Bioethics (Conferencee)
Sponsored by the The Whitestone Foundation dba The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory in collaboration with the University of Denver It highlights
The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil, Part 2 (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
George Batailles On Ethnographic Surrealism And “The Limits Of The Useful” – Review Essay (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
The Religious Roots Of Environmental Justice – Call For Papers Or Presentations (Conference)
Where: Online (Zoom) – Registration Required Submission deadline for proposals: Friday, September 15, 2023 It highlights key arguments and implications
Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)
> “Neptunus alii per alia, poterunt intellegi qui qualesque sint, quoque eos nomine consuetudo nuncupaverit, hoc eos et venerari et colere debemus.” – Cicero
Embodiment – A Conference On The Crisis In Contemporary Theory And The Humanities (Announcement)
You must register in advance (see below) whereupon you will automatically receive a participation link. If you are having trouble, please email us It highlights
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
Critical Conversations 10 – “Tenderness,” Or Putting Neoliberalism On The Analyst’s Couch (Announcement)
When: Tuesday, June 29, 10am Mountain Standard Time How: Zoom. By Advance Registration. Please register at the following link below It highlights key arguments
Decoloniality And Disintegration Of Western Cognitive Empire – Rethinking Sovereignty And Territoriality In The 21st Century (Conference Announcement)
Sponsored by The New Polis, Whitestone Publications, and Metropolitan State University of Denver in collaboration with members of the Iliff School of Theology
Call For Presentations And Proposals – Decoloniality And Disintegration Of Western Cognitive Empire, Or Rethinking Sovereignty And Territoriality In The 21st Century (Announcement)
The New Polis in collaboration with the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (part of The Whitestone Foundation of publications) announces a webinar-based
Review – Neurotheological Nuances (Joshua Canzona)
Neurotheology: How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality. Newberg, Andrew. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. ISBN 9780231179041. Hardback
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
Looking For Reviewers
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
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
Review – Reframing Schelling (Rolando Rodriguez)
Daniel Whistler, **Schelling’s Theory of Symbolic Language: Forming the System of Identity (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013), 261 ppgs + xi**
Review – A Stranger Thought For Stranger Times (Liam Burrell)
*Smith, Anthony Paul. Laruelle: A Stranger Thought. Cambridge: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 0745671233. Hardcover, paperback, e-book Hardcover, paperback, e-book.
Philosophical Anthropology or Philosophy of Praxis? Axel Honneth and Andrew Feenberg on Lukács’ Theory of Reification (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
Newest Titles For Review – Freud, Nussbaum, Angst, The Crucified God, Etc.
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
Review – Eugene Thacker’s “Cosmic Pessimism” (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
Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 2 (Jodi Dean)
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
What Is A Dispositif? – Part 1 (Gregg Lambert)
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
Review – The Evolution of the Religious Factor in Fantasy Role-Playing Games (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
Review – Badiou’s Conversations About Theatre Offer Light-Hearted And Quirky Insight Into Mind Of Philosopher (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
Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology”, Part 3
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
Review – Badiou and Gauchet on Capitalism and Democracy
*Badiou, Alain and Gauchet, Marcel. What Is To Be Done?: A Dialogue on Communism, Capitalism, and the Future of Democracy. Translated by Susan Spitzer
Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology”, Part 2
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
Spiritual Erotics, Part 3 – Eros, Ecstasy, and the Pentecostal Experience
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”
Spiritual Erotics, Part 2 – The Nature and History of Machismo and Its Feminine Counterpart As “Marianismo”
From time to time Religious Theory (RT) invites well-known academic authors to outline current book projects that have not yet been published It highlights
Spiritual Erotics, Part 1 – Affect Theory and the Transformation of Machismo Among Latino Pentecostal Men
From time to time Religious Theory (RT) invites well-known academic authors to outline current book projects that have not yet been published S. It highlights
Conferences and CFPs – Upcoming
Beyond Habermas? Critical Theory, Political Theology, and Interreligious Dialogue “Habermas’ postsecular perspective of socio-political integration has had a
Religious Theory – A New Review, Commentary, and Conversations Feature of JCRT
Religious Theory is the new commentary, review, and conversation blog for The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights key arguments and