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It is republished here because of its timeliness and importance. What exactly is Christian nationalism? [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/evangelicalism-pentecostalism-and-the-quotidian-academic-terror-of-christian-nationalism/) ![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 [Learn More](/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/) ![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 [Learn More](/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/) ![Announcing “The New Polis” – An E-Publication On Critical Theory, Cultural Analysis, And Political Thought](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/03/unnamed-14.webp) ### [Announcing “The New Polis” – An E-Publication On Critical Theory, Cultural Analysis, And Political Thought](/religioustheory/posts/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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/announcing-the-new-polis-an-e-publication-on-critical-theory-cultural-analysis-and-political-thought/) ![Religious Autonomy As Secularism’s Silent Partner (Darshan Datar)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/05/img_1444.webp) ### [Religious Autonomy As Secularism’s Silent Partner (Darshan Datar)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-autonomy-as-secularisms-silent-partner-darshan-datar/) May 31, 2017 — By Darshan Datar Scholarship has noted that the genealogical trajectory of a state has consistently had an impact on the evolution of state-church relationships It highlights [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/religious-autonomy-as-secularisms-silent-partner-darshan-datar/) ![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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/review-ontic-flows-from-digital-humanities-to-posthumanities-dean-dettloff/) ![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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/review-new-trends-in-the-theory-and-methods-for-studying-religion-david-kim/) ![Review – François Laruelle’s General Theory of Victims (John Matthew Allison)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/middle-passage.webp) ### [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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/review-francois-laruelles-general-theory-of-victims-john-matthew-allison/) ![Review – A Darker, Grittier Deleuze (Timothy Snediker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/07/gilles-deleuze-dr.webp) ### [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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/review-a-darker-grittier-deleuze/) ![Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 3 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/06/1418.webp) ### [Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 3 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajrayana-buddhism-part-3/) June 21, 2016 — By Padraic Fitzgerald The following is the third and final installment in a three-part series. The first installment was published on May 27, 2016 and can be found here It highlights [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajrayana-buddhism-part-3/) ![Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 1 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/05/2-5.webp) ### [Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 1 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-1/) May 31, 2016 — By Roger K. Green The term “political theology” is currently used in a variety of ways in current debate over the place of liberalism amid world crises in politics and It [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-1/) ![Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 1 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/05/buddhistprayerflagsinnepalatopstupawithbuddhawisdomeyesbykarnevilflickr.webp) ### [Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 1 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajranayana-buddhism-part-1/) May 27, 2016 — By Padraic Fitzgerald Biopolitics, as Michel Foucault argued, views populations through an economic lens, as capital to be preserved and multiplied to keep the nation or tradition [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajranayana-buddhism-part-1/) ![Renegade Hinduism Scholar Featured In Norton’s Anthology of World Religions](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/04/ilaiah.webp) ### [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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/renegade-hinduism-scholar-featured-in-nortons-anthology-of-world-religions/) [The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT)](https://jcrt.org) is an online, peer-reviewed, academic publication published by [The Whitestone Foundation](http://thewhitestonefoundation.org/), a 501c3 corporation located in Boulder, Colorado. 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