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# **Religious Theory Posts**

              ![Review – Bahai Religion And Religious Cycles (Rebekah Gordon)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/06/churches-of-the-world.webp)

### [Review – Bahai Religion And Religious Cycles (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-bahai-religion-and-religious-cycles-rebekah-gordon/)

June 7, 2017 — By [Rebekah Gordon](/authors/rebekah-gordon/)

                  Reviews

Sergeev, Mikhail. Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, and the Baha’i Faith. Amsterdam: Brill Rodopi, 2015. ISBN-10:9004300031. Paperback

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              ![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](/authors/darshan-datar/)

                  Political Theology

                  Political Theory

                  World Religions

Scholarship has noted that the genealogical trajectory of a state has consistently had an impact on the evolution of state-church relationships It highlights

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              ![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](/authors/dean-dettloff/)

                  Reviews

                  World Religions

*Bernico, Matt, and Kölke, Manuela (Eds.). Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities. New York: Atropos Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 1940813085 It

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              ![Review – Economy And Ontology From Agamben To Nancy (Taylor Weaver)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/05/img_1354.webp)

### [Review – Economy And Ontology From Agamben To Nancy (Taylor Weaver)](/religioustheory/posts/review-economy-and-ontology-from-agamben-to-nancy-taylor-weaver/)

May 23, 2017 — By [Taylor Weaver](/authors/taylor-weaver/)

                  Reviews

*Bird, Greg. Containing Community: From Political Economy to Ontology in Agamben, Esposito, and Nancy. Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2016. ISBN 978-1-4384-6185-4

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              ![Review – Caputo’s “Spooky” Call To Theology (Rob Kennedy)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/05/ghost-story.webp)

### [Review – Caputo’s “Spooky” Call To Theology (Rob Kennedy)](/religioustheory/posts/review-caputos-spooky-call-to-theology-rob-kennedy/)

May 15, 2017 — By [Rob Kennedy](/authors/rob-kennedy/)

                  Reviews

                  Philosophy of Religion

*Caputo, John D., Moody, Sarah, and DeLay, Tad., It Spooks: Living In Response To An Unheard Call. Rapid City SD: Shelter50 Publishing Collective, 2015

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              ![The One Is Not – On the Fate Of Unity in Post-Metaphysical Philosophy (Jussi Backman)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/05/aristotle-metaphysics.webp)

### [The One Is Not – On the Fate Of Unity in Post-Metaphysical Philosophy (Jussi Backman)](/religioustheory/posts/the-one-is-not-on-the-fate-of-unity-in-post-metaphysical-philosophy-jussi-backman/)

May 9, 2017 — By [Jussi Backman](/authors/jussi-backman/)

                  Metaphysics

                  Philosophy

                  Lutheran Theology

                  Philosophy of Religion

                  Theology

*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

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              ![Review – The Origins of Neoliberalism: A Racialized Review (Adam F. Braun)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/05/origins.webp)

### [Review – The Origins of Neoliberalism: A Racialized Review (Adam F. Braun)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-origins-of-neoliberalism-a-racialized-review-adam-f-braun/)

May 4, 2017 — By [Adam F. Braun](/authors/adam-f-braun/)

                  Reviews

                  Philosophy of Religion

*Leshem, Dotan. The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 0231177763

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              ![Speaking (Or Not Speaking) Of God – Call For Proposals](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/05/img_1275.webp)

### [Speaking (Or Not Speaking) Of God – Call For Proposals](/religioustheory/posts/speaking-or-not-speaking-of-god-call-for-proposals2/)

May 3, 2017 — By [editors](/editors/)

                  Conferences

Where: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado Sponsors: Department of Religious Studies, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights key arguments

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              ![Hegemony And Techno-Rationality – Toward An Aesthetic Soteriology (Mason Davis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/04/6222400489_896549e00e_o.webp)

### [Hegemony And Techno-Rationality – Toward An Aesthetic Soteriology (Mason Davis)](/religioustheory/posts/hegemony-and-techno-rationality-toward-an-aesthetic-soteriology-mason-davis/)

April 18, 2017 — By [Mason Davis](/authors/mason-davis/)

                  Aesthetics

                  Catholicism

                  Philosophy of Religion

To speak of aesthetics is not simply to consign art to its effects on sensibility, but to open up the configurations of experience that create new modalities of

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              ![Forging A Path From Theory To Theology – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/04/the-insurrection.webp)

### [Forging A Path From Theory To Theology – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)](/religioustheory/posts/forging-a-path-from-theory-to-theology-review-essay-matt-waggoner/)

April 11, 2017 — By [Matt Waggoner](/authors/matt-waggoner/)

                  Reviews

                  Theology

                  Theory

*Blanton, Ward. Crockett, Clayton. Robbins, Jeffrey. Vahanian, Noëlle. An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Insurrections:

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              ![Review – A Stranger Thought For Stranger Times (Liam Burrell)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/laruelle.webp)

### [Review – A Stranger Thought For Stranger Times (Liam Burrell)](/religioustheory/posts/review-a-stranger-thought-for-stranger-times-liam-burrell/)

April 6, 2017 — By [Liam Burrell](/authors/liam-burrell/)

                  Reviews

                  Uncategorized

*Smith, Anthony Paul. Laruelle: A Stranger Thought. Cambridge: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 0745671233. Hardcover, paperback, e-book Hardcover, paperback, e-book.

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              ![Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/04/under-den-linden.webp)

### [Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/untimely-meditations-on-techno-theology-and-theo-poetics-part-2-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

April 1, 2017 — By [John Panteleimon Manoussakis](/authors/john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

                  Philosophy

                  Metaphysics

                  Reviews

**The following is the second half of the article. The first installment can be found here.** Richard Kearney’s theopoetics offers an alternative to the

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              ![Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/mesopotamia.webp)

### [Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/untimely-meditations-on-techno-theology-and-theo-poetics-part-1-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

March 22, 2017 — By [John Panteleimon Manoussakis](/authors/john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

                  Philosophy

                  Philosophy of Religion

                  Theology

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

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              ![Review – The Metaphysics of Copresence in Beliso-De Jesùs’ Electric Santeria (Ryne Beddard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/santeria-cover.webp)

### [Review – The Metaphysics of Copresence in Beliso-De Jesùs’ Electric Santeria (Ryne Beddard)](/religioustheory/posts/review-copresence-and-ontography-in-beliso-de-jesus-electric-santeria-ryne-beddard/)

March 17, 2017 — By [Ryne Beddard](/authors/ryne-beddard/)

                  Reviews

* Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M. Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015 It highlights

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              ![Philosophical Anthropology or Philosophy of Praxis? Axel Honneth and Andrew Feenberg on Lukács’ Theory of Reification (Konstantinos Kavoulakos)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/lukacs-and-woman.webp)

### [Philosophical Anthropology or Philosophy of Praxis? Axel Honneth and Andrew Feenberg on Lukács’ Theory of Reification (Konstantinos Kavoulakos)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophical-anthropology-or-philosophy-of-praxis-axel-honneth-and-andrew-feenberg-on-lukacs-theory-of-reification-konstantinos-kavoulakos/)

March 15, 2017 — By [Konstantinos Kavoulakos](/authors/konstantinos-kavoulakos/)

                  Critical Theory

                  Psychoanalysis

                  Uncategorized

                  Reviews

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

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              ![Foucault’s Disciplinary Society And The Community Rule Of Qumran (Rebekah Gordon)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/qumran-drawing.webp)

### [Foucault’s Disciplinary Society And The Community Rule Of Qumran (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/foucaults-disciplinary-society-and-the-community-rule-of-qumran-rebekah-gordon/)

March 10, 2017 — By [Rebekah Gordon](/authors/rebekah-gordon/)

                  Theory

                  Critical Theory

                  Hermeneutics

                  Reviews

                  Theology

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

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              ![Review – Theologies of the Boss (James Cochran)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/young-bruce.webp)

### [Review – Theologies of the Boss (James Cochran)](/religioustheory/posts/review/)

March 2, 2017 — By [James Cochran](/authors/james-cochran/)

                  Reviews

*Yadin-Israel, Azzan. The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen. Highland Park: Lingua Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 0692718516

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              ![The Bell Jar’s New Look – Sylvia Plath, Simone De Beauvoir, And The Visual Representation Of Feminist Discourse (Madeline Yonker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/bell-jar-cover.webp)

### [The Bell Jar’s New Look – Sylvia Plath, Simone De Beauvoir, And The Visual Representation Of Feminist Discourse (Madeline Yonker)](/religioustheory/posts/the-bell-jars-new-look-sylvia-plath-simone-de-beauvoir-and-the-visual-representation-of-feminist-discourse-madeline-yonker/)

March 1, 2017 — By [Madeline Yonker](/authors/madeline-yonker/)

                  Feminist Theory

The following article is republished from an earlier edition of The Journal for Cultural Theory. The link to the original article can be found here It

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              ![The Place Of Das Ding – Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Religion, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/02/the-thing-max-res.webp)

### [The Place Of Das Ding – Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Religion, Part 2 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/the-place-of-das-ding-psychoanalysis-phenomenology-religion-part-2-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

February 21, 2017 — By [John Panteleimon Manoussakis](/authors/john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

                  Philosophy

                  Political Theology

                  Higher Education

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first part can be found here. The foregoing has been an effort to inscribe das Ding within a

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              ![Review – Neoliberalsm Is Nowhere – Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos (Isaiah Dylan Ellis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/02/charles_hope-thatcher_tina.webp)

### [Review – Neoliberalsm Is Nowhere – Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos (Isaiah Dylan Ellis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-neoliberalismisnowhere-wendy-browns-undoing-the-demos-isaiah/)

February 16, 2017 — By [Isaiah Dylan Ellis](/authors/isaiah-dylan-ellis/)

                  Reviews

* Brown, Wendy. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York: Zone Books, 2015. ISBN-10: 1935408534. Hardcover Hardcover. It highlights

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              ![The Place Of Das Ding – Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Religion, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/02/dd.webp)

### [The Place Of Das Ding – Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, Religion, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/the-place-of-das-ding-psychoanalysis-phenomenology-religion-part-1-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

February 13, 2017 — By [John Panteleimon Manoussakis](/authors/john-panteleimon-manoussakis/)

                  Philosophy

                  Lutheran Theology

                  Philosophy of Religion

                  Theology

                  Metaphysics

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?”

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              ![Philosophy As Interdisciplinary Intensity – An Interview With Giorgio Agamben (Antonio Gnolio/Ido Govrin)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/02/intensity.webp)

### [Philosophy As Interdisciplinary Intensity – An Interview With Giorgio Agamben (Antonio Gnolio/Ido Govrin)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-interdisciplinary-intensity-an-interview-with-giorgio-agamben-antonio-gnolioido-govrin/)

February 6, 2017 — By [Antonio Gnolio](/authors/antonio-gnolio/); [Ido Govrin](/authors/ido-govrin/)

                  Philosophy

                  Philosophy of Religion

                  Political Theology

The following is an interview with the famed Continental philosopher Giorgio Agamben conducted by journalist Antonio Gnolio It highlights key arguments

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              ![Review – Badiou Is Not Afraid of The Dark (Mason Davis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/02/badiou.webp)

### [Review – Badiou Is Not Afraid of The Dark (Mason Davis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-badiou-is-not-afraid-of-the-dark-mason-davis/)

February 2, 2017 — By [Mason Davis](/authors/mason-davis/)

                  Reviews

*Badiou, Alain. Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color. Translated by Susan Spitzer. New Jersey: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 1509512071. Hardcover, paperback, e-book

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              ![Newest Titles For Review – Freud, Nussbaum, Angst, The Crucified God, Etc.](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/01/martha-nussbaum.webp)

### [Newest Titles For Review – Freud, Nussbaum, Angst, The Crucified God, Etc.](/religioustheory/posts/newest-titles-for-review-freud-nussbaum-angst-the-crucified-god-etc/)

January 27, 2017 — By [editors](/editors/)

                  Uncategorized

                  Mythology

                  Philosophy of Religion

                  Psychoanalysis

                  Psychology of Religion

                  Reviews

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

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              ![Lacan, Levinas, And The Politics Of The Subject (Joshua Lawrence)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/01/levinas1.webp)

### [Lacan, Levinas, And The Politics Of The Subject (Joshua Lawrence)](/religioustheory/posts/lacan-levinas-and-the-politics-of-the-subject-joshua-lawrence/)

January 21, 2017 — By [Joshua Lawrence](/authors/joshua-lawrence/)

                  Political Theology

                  Psychoanalysis

                  Theology

Psychoanalysis has undeniably played a significant role in the development of theories critical of the social landscape It highlights key arguments and

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