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# **Religious Theory Posts**

              ![Spinoza’s Theory of Religion – Stabilized Superstition (Ehud Benor)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/01/jewish-1159704_1920.webp)

### [Spinoza’s Theory of Religion – Stabilized Superstition (Ehud Benor)](/religioustheory/posts/spinozas-theory-of-religion-stabilized-superstition-ehud-benor/)

January 13, 2017 — By [Ehud Benor](/authors/ehud-benor/)

                  Philosophy of Religion

The best interpretations of Spinoza’s philosophy would lead us to believe that, for Spinoza, religion is superstition. Henry Allison’s account is an excellent

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              ![Review – Judith Butler And The Different “Senses” Of The Subject (Matthew Waggoner)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/01/20897035259_73d12d6fb3_b.webp)

### [Review – Judith Butler And The Different “Senses” Of The Subject (Matthew Waggoner)](/religioustheory/posts/review-judith-butler-and-the-different-senses-of-the-subject-matthew-waggoner/)

January 9, 2017 — By [Matthew Waggoner](/authors/matthew-waggoner/)

                  Reviews

Note: This review is also published simultaneously in the PDF special issue of JCRT 16.1. *Butler, Judith. Senses of the Subject Senses of the Subject.

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              ![Rethinking Anselm’s Atonement Theory –  “Unmaking” The Indebted Man (Ryne Beddard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/01/atonement-lg.webp)

### [Rethinking Anselm’s Atonement Theory – “Unmaking” The Indebted Man (Ryne Beddard)](/religioustheory/posts/rethinking-anselms-atonement-theory-unmaking-the-indebted-man-ryne-beddard/)

January 3, 2017 — By [Ryne Beddard](/authors/ryne-beddard/)

                  Theology

                  Lutheran Theology

                  Philosophy of Religion

                  Reviews

                  Theory

Throughout Church history Christians have used various images and illustrations to explain why God became a human and died, and why these actions have been

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              ![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](/authors/david-kim/)

                  Reviews

                  World Religions

Kovács, Ábrahám, and James L. Cox, Editors. New Trends and Recurring Issues in the Study of Religion: Context and Overview. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2014

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              ![The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/selfport.webp)

### [The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-part-2-roger-green/)

December 26, 2016 — By [Roger K. Green](/authors/roger-k-green/)

                  Philosophy

                  Philosophy of Religion

                  Higher Education

                  Reviews

                  Theology

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first installment, published on Dec. 19, 2016, can be found here. In Writing Degree Zero, Barthes suggests

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              ![The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 1 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/jnnocence1094.webp)

### [The Semiotics of the Unconscious in Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes, Part 1 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/the-semiotics-of-the-unconscious-in-gilles-deleuze-and-roland-barthes-roger-green/)

December 19, 2016 — By [Roger K. Green](/authors/roger-k-green/)

                  Philosophy

                  Reviews

                  Theology

                  Philosophy of Religion

In his preface to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault asks the authors’ forgiveness for describing their book as the first book of ethics

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              ![Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 3 (Daniel Rhodes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/img_0632.webp)

### [Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 3 (Daniel Rhodes)](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-3-daniel-rhodes/)

December 12, 2016 — By [Daniel Rhodes](/authors/daniel-rhodes/)

                  Philosophy

                  Political Theology

The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The link to the first portion can be found here. The link to the second is here It highlights

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              ![Review – The Greatest Trick God Ever Pulled… (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/devil-fall.webp)

### [Review – The Greatest Trick God Ever Pulled… (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-greatest-trick-god-ever-pulled-benjamin-steele-fisher/)

December 8, 2016 — By [Benjamin Steele-Fisher](/authors/benjamin-steele-fisher/)

                  Reviews

*Kotsko, Adam. The Prince of this World. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 1503600203. Hardcover, paperback, e-book It highlights key

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              ![Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 2 (Daniel Rhodes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/earthquake.webp)

### [Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 2 (Daniel Rhodes)](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-2-daniel-rhodes/)

December 6, 2016 — By [Daniel Rhodes](/authors/daniel-rhodes/)

                  Philosophy

                  Higher Education

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The link to the first portion can be found here. As the source of productivity, time rendered as

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              ![Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 1 (Daniel Rhodes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/capitalism_0.webp)

### [Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 1 (Daniel Rhodes)](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-1-daniel-rhodes/)

December 1, 2016 — By [Daniel Rhodes](/authors/daniel-rhodes/)

                  Philosophy

                  Political Theology

                  Reviews

In his long-awaited interjection into the debates on the future of Marxism after the collapse of Soviet state communism, Jacques Derrida introduces the notion

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              ![Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 3 (Alan Jay Richard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/william_blake_-_the_shepherd_from_songs_of_innocence_-_google_art_project.webp)

### [Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 3 (Alan Jay Richard)](/religioustheory/posts/dreaming-innocence-in-america-paul-tillichs-radical-theology-of-liberation-part-3-alan-jay-richard/)

November 29, 2016 — By [Alan Jay Richard](/authors/alan-jay-richard/)

                  Theology

                  Philosophy of Religion

                  Religious Studies

                  Psychology of Religion

The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first installment can be accessed here. The second part can be found here It highlights

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              ![Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 2 (Alan Jay Richard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/double_vac_line_front_view.webp)

### [Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 2 (Alan Jay Richard)](/religioustheory/posts/dreaming-innocence-in-america-paul-tillichs-radical-theology-of-liberation-part-2-alan-jay-richard/)

November 21, 2016 — By [Alan Jay Richard](/authors/alan-jay-richard/)

                  Theology

                  Philosophy of Religion

The following is the second installment of a multi-part series. The first installment can be accessed here. As Tillich argues in the second dissertation, Kant

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              ![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](/authors/john-matthew-allison/)

                  Reviews

                  World Religions

*Laruelle, François. General Theory of Victims. Translated by Jessie Hock and Alex Dubilet. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0745679617 It highlights

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              ![Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 1 (Alan Jay Richard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/public-domain-installation.webp)

### [Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 1 (Alan Jay Richard)](/religioustheory/posts/dreaming-innocence-in-america-paul-tillichs-radical-theology-of-liberation-part-1-alan-jay-richard/)

November 7, 2016 — By [Alan Jay Richard](/authors/alan-jay-richard/)

                  Theology

                  Postcolonial Theory

                  Psychology of Religion

One of the challenges of liberation theology is to think the radical political and social liberation of the oppressed in a way that is truly this-worldly

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              ![Hanging Garlands Of Flowers On The Chains That Bind – Soft Totalitarianism and Techno-Rationality (Jeff Appel)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/bd7ff1a1c6e460bf8e87a4fa0ee90199.webp)

### [Hanging Garlands Of Flowers On The Chains That Bind – Soft Totalitarianism and Techno-Rationality (Jeff Appel)](/religioustheory/posts/hanging-garlands-of-flowers-on-the-chains-that-bind-soft-totalitarianism-and-techno-rationality-jeff-appel/)

November 2, 2016 — By [Jeff Appel](/authors/jeff-appel/)

                  Media Theory

This article was originally a paper delivered at the conference “Reclaiming the Unconscious – On The Intersection of Psychoanalysis With the Humanities,”

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              ![Review – Eugene Thacker’s “Cosmic Pessimism” (N.N. Trakakis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/10/cioran.webp)

### [Review – Eugene Thacker’s “Cosmic Pessimism” (N.N. Trakakis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-eugene-thackers-cosmic-pessimism/)

October 27, 2016 — By [N.N. Trakakis](/authors/nn-trakakis/)

                  Reviews

                  Uncategorized

*Thacker, Eugene. Cosmic Pessimism. Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2015. ISBN-10: 193756147X. E-book, paperback. 55 pages.* It might be worth quoting from

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              ![Shamanism and Entheogens – Toward A Psychoanalysis Of The New “Dream Time” (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/10/sorrowing-old-man-psilocybin-depression.webp)

### [Shamanism and Entheogens – Toward A Psychoanalysis Of The New “Dream Time” (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/shamanism-and-entheogens-toward-a-psychoanalysis-of-the-new-dream-time-roger-green/)

October 24, 2016 — By [Roger K. Green](/authors/roger-k-green/)

                  Psychology of Religion

                  Psychoanalysis

                  Sexuality and Religion

There is no reason why therapy rooms for psychedelic sessions must be adorned with the default Buddha icons, fractal posters, and Indian drapes It highlights

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              ![Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 2 (Jodi Dean)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/10/proudhon-children.webp)

### [Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 2 (Jodi Dean)](/religioustheory/posts/collective-desire-and-the-pathology-of-the-individual-part-2-jodi-dean/)

October 19, 2016 — By [Jodi Dean](/authors/jodi-dean/)

                  Critical Theory

                  Psychoanalysis

                  Announcements

                  Uncategorized

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

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              ![Review – Caputo, The Unconditional, The Folly of God (Richard M. Allen)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/10/paul.webp)

### [Review – Caputo, The Unconditional, The Folly of God (Richard M. Allen)](/religioustheory/posts/review-caputo-the-unconditional-the-folly-of-god-richard-m-allen/)

October 13, 2016 — By [Richard M. Allen](/authors/richard-m-allen/)

                  Reviews

*Caputo, John D. The Folly of God: A Theology of the Unconditional. Salem, OR: Polebridge Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 1598151711. Paperback, e-book Paperback, e-book.

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              ![Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 1 (Jodi Dean)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/10/robotics.webp)

### [Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 1 (Jodi Dean)](/religioustheory/posts/collective-desire-and-the-pathology-of-the-individual-jodi-dean/)

October 10, 2016 — By [Jodi Dean](/authors/jodi-dean/)

                  Critical Theory

                  Reviews

                  Critical Conversations

                  Announcements

An interesting strand of contemporary theory designates the specificity of capitalism with the qualifier “cognitive.” I do not write under this term, although I

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              ![Review – Whence and Whither Posthumanism? (Bo Eberle)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/10/posthumanism.webp)

### [Review – Whence and Whither Posthumanism? (Bo Eberle)](/religioustheory/posts/review-whence-and-whither-posthumanism-bo-eberle/)

October 6, 2016 — By [Bo Eberle](/authors/bo-eberle/)

                  Reviews

*White, Ryan. The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0231171005 Hardcover, e-book.

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              ![From Heathen to Sub-Human: A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism, Part 3 (Oludamini Ogunnaike)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/09/mumbett702.webp)

### [From Heathen to Sub-Human: A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism, Part 3 (Oludamini Ogunnaike)](/religioustheory/posts/from-heathen-to-sub-human-a-genealogy-of-the-influence-of-the-decline-of-religion-on-the-rise-of-modern-racism-part-3-oludamini-ogunnaike/)

October 4, 2016 — By [Oludamini Ogunnaike](/authors/oludamini-ogunnaike/)

                  Critical Race Theory

                  African Studies

The following is the third part of an article in three installments that initially appeared in July 2016 in Open Theology 2:2016 785-203 It highlights

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              ![Review – Raising the Vegetal Question (Hollis Phelps)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/09/forest.webp)

### [Review – Raising the Vegetal Question (Hollis Phelps)](/religioustheory/posts/760/)

September 29, 2016 — By [Hollis Phelps](/authors/hollis-phelps/)

                  Reviews

*Irigaray, Luce and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being: Two Philosophical Perspectives. New York, Columbia University Press, 2016 It highlights key

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              ![From Heathen to Sub-Human – A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism, Part 2 (Oludamini Ogunnaike)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/09/cat11.webp)

### [From Heathen to Sub-Human – A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism, Part 2 (Oludamini Ogunnaike)](/religioustheory/posts/from-heathen-to-sub-human-a-genealogy-of-the-influence-of-the-decline-of-religion-on-the-rise-of-modern-racism-part-2-oludamini-ogunnaike/)

September 27, 2016 — By [Oludamini Ogunnaike](/authors/oludamini-ogunnaike/)

                  Critical Race Theory

The following is the second part of an article in three installments that initially appeared in July 2016 in Open Theology 2:2016 785-203 It highlights

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              ![Review – Aaron Hughes’ ‘Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity’ (Daniel Tutt)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/09/hajj.webp)

### [Review – Aaron Hughes’ ‘Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity’ (Daniel Tutt)](/religioustheory/posts/exposing-the-pitfalls-of-constructive-theology-on-the-state-of-islamic-studies-today-daniel-tutt/)

September 22, 2016 — By [Daniel Tutt](/authors/daniel-tutt/)

                  Reviews

*Hughes, Aaron. Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity: An Inquiry into Disciplinary Apologetics and Self-Deception. London: Equinox Publishing, 2016 It

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