E-SUPPLEMENT TO THE JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL AND RELIGIOUS THEORY
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. Collage from “An-Other Language? Psychosomatic Research and the Lévinasian Conception of Otherness in Trauma Therapy” with the research question: When Lévinas claims that „the relationship between the Same and the […]
The following is the last of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. Essentialist and social constructionist discourses on sexuality lose their coherence precisely inasmuch as they seek to debate what one should be allowed to do with her body, while seeking to thoroughly circumvent the erotic. This amounts to a misapprehension […]
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Social constructionist theory developed as an answer to essentialist theories of sexuality and sought to demonstrate the variety and complexity of approaches to sex, reproduction, love gender, and marriage have been throughout human history. Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality series […]
The following is the first of a three-part series. John Boswell in Historical, Social, and Political Context John Boswell (1947-94) was a Yale philologist who published two major studies betweeen 1980 and 1994 which, considered together, constitute an extended and significant study in the history of so-called “Eurochristian” sexuality.[1] Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (1980) […]
The following is the last of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. Concluding Clarifications Understandable fears to the contrary notwithstanding, a cult, by definition, is centered around the figure of a single charismatic leader, whereas the whole point of Spirit/Dance is to empower a maximal number of people to autonomously create […]
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. As to the purpose of this spirit dancing, Kopenawa constantly emphasizes that it is a form of linguistic communication. “It is these spirits’ words that I make heard,” he writes. “It is not just my own thought” (314). More precisely, […]
The following is the first of a three-part series. This project was provoked by the almost nonexistent pushback from the Democratic liberal establishment to the (2020) exoneration of Kyle Rittenhouse, despite his acknowledged killing of two Black Lives Matters protesters against the police murder of George Floyd. It builds on three prior articles arguing for […]
The following essay appeared recently in The New Polis. It is republished here because of its timeliness and importance. What exactly is Christian nationalism? Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year, a tight little clique of prominent academics and journalists have been on a campaign to convince Americans that […]
The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. The earlier article by Prof. Hyman to which the author replies can be found here. In Hegel Contra Sociology Rose argued that the negation of critical consciousness was preserved not just as the interminable repetition of antinomy, but as […]
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 here. But what is always at stake in these arguments, writes Hyman, is the question of the contamination of the Absolute or God. Can we still speak […]