The article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. Humans from the Hummus – life as royal gardeners It is generally recognised that the Garden story is more environmentally friendly. As Jewish scholar Ziony Zevit observes, agricultural themes are clearer in the Garden story.[1]As we saw earlier, Habel identifies it as […]
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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. ISBN 978-0-262-04733-3. The Accursed Share, one of the more enduring literary and philosophical projects undertaken by Georges Bataille, started a decade before its eventual 1949 publication as what he had […]
Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)
The following is the first of a three-part series. “Neptunus alii per alia, poterunt intellegi qui qualesque sint, quoque eos nomine consuetudo nuncupaverit, hoc eos et venerari et colere debemus.” – Cicero, De Natura Deorum The very concept of political theology insinuates a transcendental source of value from which the axiomatics of political thought, if […]
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 online conference in April 2021. The conference is entitled “Decoloniality And Disintegration Of Western Cognitive Empire – Rethinking Sovereignty And Territoriality In The 21st Century.” The tentative dates for the conference are April 14-15, though […]
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 Zoroastrianism is believed to be an outgrowth of an Indo-Iranian religious tradition that dates to the 2nd millennium BCE. However, we do not see it mentioned in Greek writings until about the middle of the 5th century […]
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 to timsned@gmail.com with the header “Request for Review.” Please provide your name, email address, position, institutional affiliation, physical mailing address, and a 300-word bio. If you have reviewed […]
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 the beginning of this pocket-sized, 69-page book to give a sense of its style and subject: We’re doomed. Pessimism is the night-side of thought, a melodrama of the futility of the brain, a poetry written in the […]
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 key term in late Foucault that first appeared in his History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (1976) to replace the use of “discursive formation,” which for Foucault was restricted to […]
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. 90 pages. In Praise of Theatre is the result of a public conversation which took place between Alain Badiou and Nicolas Truong at the Festival d’Avignon in the summer of 2012 as a part of the […]
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 perspective that departs significantly from the work of John D. Caputo. The first part was published in Religious Theory on April 27, 2016. The second part was published […]