Religious Theory Posts
Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 1 (Daniel Tutt)
The following is the first installment of a two-part article by Daniel Tutt entitled “Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology.” It has been
A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)
The following is the second installment of a lecture delivered to the faculty and students of the Research Platform on Religion and Transformation from the
Review – L.L. Welborn’s Synthesis of New Testament Scholarship and Critical Theory’s Recent Interest in the Apostle Paul (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)
*Welborn, Larry L. Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and
A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)
The following is the first installment of a lecture delivered to the faculty and students of the Research Platform on Religion and Transformation from the
Review – Love’s Unfortunate Presence between Faith and Belief (Daniel Boscaljon)
*Schrijvers, Joeri. Between Faith and Belief: Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life (SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought) It
Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 2 (Ronald Beiner)
Part 2 extends the Benjamin-Arendt comparison by testing judgment against crisis and memory, clarifying how historical rupture reshapes political discernment
Review – Giorgio Agamben and the Theory of Civil War (Ignas Kalpokas)
*Agamben, Giorgio. Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). Translated by Nicholas Heron Translated by Nicholas Heron.
Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 1 (Ronald Beiner)
Part 1 traces how Walter Benjamin's theses on history inform Hannah Arendt's account of judgment, emphasizing temporality, critique, and political The
Review – A Darker, Grittier Deleuze (Timothy Snediker)
*Culp, Andrew. Dark Deleuze (Forerunners: Ideas First). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. ISBN 10: 1517901332 Paperback, e-book It highlights
Love Strong as Death – Jews against Heidegger, On the Issue of Finitude – Part 2 (Agata Bielik-Robson)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first segment was published on July 25, 2016 and can be accessed here It highlights key arguments
Review – Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America (Roger Green)
* Osto, Douglas. Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016 It highlights key arguments
Love Strong as Death – Jews against Heidegger, On the Issue of Finitude – Part 1 (Agata Bielik-Robson)
This article is published in two parts. The second portion will appear on August 1. > I have set before you life and death: choose life. – Deuteronomy 30:19
Review – Agamben’s Political Reading of the Trial of Jesus (Ryne Beddard)
*Agamben, Giorgio. Pilate and Jesus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). Translated by Adam Kotsko. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015 It highlights
What Is A Dispositif? – Part 2 (Gregg Lambert)
The following article by internationally known theory scholar Gregg Lambert is the second of a two-part series. The first part was published on July 11, 2016
Review – Digital Technologies and Religion in the Postmodern Era (Albert McClure)
*Han, Sam. Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity. Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society 19 142 pages.
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
Review – The Search For Transcendence In The “Material Phenomenology” of David Foster Wallace (Jeff Appel)
*Miller, Adam S. The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction. New York: Bloomsburg Academic, 2016 It highlights
Review – The Evolution of the Religious Factor in Fantasy Role-Playing Games (Jeffrey Scholes)
*Laycock, Joseph P. Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds ISBN-10: 0520284925. It
Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 3 (Roger Green)
The following is the last of a three-part series. The first part was published on May 31, 2016. The second part was published on June 17 It highlights
Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 3 (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
Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 2 (Roger Green)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first part was published on May 31, 2016. It is especially significant that Heidegger’s attention to the
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 It highlights
Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 2 (Padraic Fitzgerald)
The following is the second installment in a three-part series. The first installment was published on May 27, 2016 and can be found here It highlights
Review – Donovan Schaefer’s Call For a Materialist Turn In Religious Theory (Jonathan Russell)
*Schaefer, Donovan O. Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN 10: 978-0-8223-5982-1, 10: It highlights
Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 1 (Roger 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