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Whitestone Foundation ### Get in touch The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) is a publication of The Whitestone Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation registered in the state of Colorado. [Contact Us](/contact/) --- [Built with Eleventy](https://www.11ty.dev/) | Design: [HTML5 UP](https://html5up.net/) | Maintained by [Adam DJ Brett](https://adamdjbrett.com) | [Credits](/credits/) [Listed at Duotrope](https://duotrope.com/magazine/journal-cultural-religious-theory-20464?ref=lst-7vbKB-7r3u0g8&pc=L-7VBKB) JCRT The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory JCRT The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory # **Religious Theory Posts** ![What Egypt Really Means for the Theory of Religion](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [What Egypt Really Means for the Theory of Religion](/religioustheory/live/what-egypt-really-means-for-the-theory-of-religion/) February 12, 2011 — By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) Live Carl A. Raschke interprets Egypt's 2011 uprising through May 1968, youth politics, Derrida, and a universalist religion without renewed religiosity in public. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/what-egypt-really-means-for-the-theory-of-religion/) ![Zombie Aesthetics, Part 1: Vituperation](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Zombie Aesthetics, Part 1: Vituperation](/religioustheory/live/zombie-aesthetics-part-1-vituperation/) October 25, 2009 — By [Colbey Emmerson Reid](/authors/colbey-emmerson-reid/) Live Colbey Emmerson Reid reads zombie cinema as an allegory of democracy, citizenship, agency, fascism, and the political limits of the Western action hero. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/zombie-aesthetics-part-1-vituperation/) ![Originary Grammar, Part 3](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Originary Grammar, Part 3](/religioustheory/live/originary-grammar-part-3/) August 1, 2009 — By [Adam Katz](/authors/adam-katz/) Live Adam Katz extends originary grammar through Eric Gans, metaphysics, imperatives, global law, and the need for signs capable of deferring political violence. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/originary-grammar-part-3/) ![Bernie Madoff University](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Bernie Madoff University](/religioustheory/live/bernie-madoff-university/) July 16, 2009 — By [Victor E. Taylor](/authors/victor-taylor/) Live Victor Taylor satirizes the corporate university through Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme, exposing a higher education model built on appearance, debt, and profit. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/bernie-madoff-university/) ![Indicative Culture](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Indicative Culture](/religioustheory/live/indicative-culture/) June 25, 2009 — By [Adam Katz](/authors/adam-katz/) Live Adam Katz explores the indicative sentence, authority, law, and counterinsurgency to argue that institutions must learn from situated habits and judgment. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/indicative-culture/) ![Obama’s Cairo Speech: “New Beginning,” New Enlightenment, or Old Aporia?](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Obama’s Cairo Speech: “New Beginning,” New Enlightenment, or Old Aporia?](/religioustheory/live/obama-s-cairo-speech-new-beginning-new-enlightenment-or-old/) June 5, 2009 — By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) Live Carl A. Raschke analyzes Obama's Cairo speech as a bid for renewed relations between Islam and the West, testing its promise against Enlightenment aporias. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/obama-s-cairo-speech-new-beginning-new-enlightenment-or-old/) ![Specter and Event](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Specter and Event](/religioustheory/live/specter-and-event/) May 16, 2009 — By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) Live Carl A. Raschke reflects on 2009 as a year of spectral eventfulness, reading Derrida and Nietzsche against political repetition, nihilism, and false dawns. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/specter-and-event/) ![Habit and Errors and Composition](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Habit and Errors and Composition](/religioustheory/live/habit-and-errors-and-composition/) April 26, 2009 — By [Adam Katz](/authors/adam-katz/) Live Adam Katz uses Gertrude Stein to connect habit, error, attention, composition, reciprocity, and political exchange in an account of how novelty emerges. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/habit-and-errors-and-composition/) ![Born Again](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Born Again](/religioustheory/live/born-again/) April 2, 2009 — By [Colbey Emmerson Reid](/authors/colbey-emmerson-reid/) Live Colbey Emmerson Reid reads The Descent as a feminist resurrection narrative in which trauma, monstrosity, repetition, and rebirth unsettle Christian allegory. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/born-again/) ![Originary Grammar, Part 2](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Originary Grammar, Part 2](/religioustheory/live/originary-grammar-part-2/) March 9, 2009 — By [Adam Katz](/authors/adam-katz/) Live Adam Katz develops originary grammar through sentence forms, metaphysics, imperatives, and the linguistic ordering that continually defers social violence. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/originary-grammar-part-2/) ![“Post-America”: An Exchange](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [“Post-America”: An Exchange](/religioustheory/live/post-america-an-exchange/) February 10, 2009 — By [David Hale](/authors/david-hale/); [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) Live David Hale and Carl A. Raschke exchange views on American decline, debt, empire, irony, and the uncertain line between the audacity and arrogance of hope. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/post-america-an-exchange/) ![Labels Without Scars: Mystifying Amnesia in Today’s Presidential Politics](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Labels Without Scars: Mystifying Amnesia in Today’s Presidential Politics](/religioustheory/live/labels-without-scars-mystifying-amnesia-in-today-s-president/) January 27, 2009 — By [Wendy Felese](/authors/wendy-felese/) Live Wendy Felese examines the rhetoric surrounding Barack Obama's presidency, asking whether hopeful political labels conceal historical scars and uncertainty. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/labels-without-scars-mystifying-amnesia-in-today-s-president/) ![Dis-Enclosure and the Inaugural Moment](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Dis-Enclosure and the Inaugural Moment](/religioustheory/live/dis-enclosure-and-the-inaugural-moment/) January 22, 2009 — By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) Live Carl A. Raschke reads Obama's inauguration beside Jean-Luc Nancy's Dis-Enclosure, asking how event, faith, Christianity, and the future resist philosophy. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/dis-enclosure-and-the-inaugural-moment/) ![Originary Grammar](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Originary Grammar](/religioustheory/live/originary-grammar/) January 5, 2009 — By [Adam Katz](/authors/adam-katz/) Live Adam Katz introduces originary grammar through Eric Gans, René Girard, language, mimetic crisis, and the emergence of signs that defer collective violence. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/originary-grammar/) ![The Business of the Real and the Unreality of Business](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [The Business of the Real and the Unreality of Business](/religioustheory/live/the-business-of-the-real-and-the-unreality-of-business/) December 27, 2008 — By [Victor E. Taylor](/authors/victor-taylor/) Live Victor Taylor examines corporate failure and the 2008 economic crisis, arguing that business models conceal the Real they claim to master through metrics. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/the-business-of-the-real-and-the-unreality-of-business/) ![Hot Abstinence](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Hot Abstinence](/religioustheory/live/hot-abstinence/) December 20, 2008 — By [Colbey Emmerson Reid](/authors/colbey-emmerson-reid/) Live Colbey Emmerson Reid reads Twilight as a Gothic theology of erotic abstinence, sacrifice, subjectivity, and the unexpectedly sensual force of Puritanism. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/hot-abstinence/) ![Multiplying Homonyms](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Multiplying Homonyms](/religioustheory/live/multiplying-homonyms/) November 20, 2008 — By [Artur Sebastian Rosman](/authors/artur-sebastian-rosman/) Live Artur Sebastian Rosman uses homonymy to assess a JCRT debate between Clayton Crockett and Agata Bielik-Robson over theology and the postmodern sublime. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/multiplying-homonyms/) ![A New Project for Correlational/Continental Theology (Again)](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [A New Project for Correlational/Continental Theology (Again)](/religioustheory/live/a-new-project-for-correlational-continental-theology-again/) November 11, 2008 — By [Wilson Dickinson](/authors/wilson-dickinson/) Live Wilson Dickinson proposes a renewed correlational and Continental theology that can connect public events, experience, mysticism, and constructive thought. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/a-new-project-for-correlational-continental-theology-again/) ![The Morning After—with a Nod to Vince Lombardi](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [The Morning After—with a Nod to Vince Lombardi](/religioustheory/live/the-morning-after-with-a-nod-to-vince-lombardi/) November 5, 2008 — By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) Live Carl A. Raschke reflects on Barack Obama's election, warning that political euphoria must give way to shared responsibility before the next global crisis. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/the-morning-after-with-a-nod-to-vince-lombardi/) ![Apocalypse Now? The Subaltern Has Spoken](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Apocalypse Now? The Subaltern Has Spoken](/religioustheory/live/apocalypse-now-the-subaltern-has-spoken/) November 3, 2008 — By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) Live Writing before the 2008 election, Carl A. Raschke considers Obama, globalization, identity politics, and whether an apparent apocalypse signals a new beginning. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/apocalypse-now-the-subaltern-has-spoken/) ![Catholics vs. the Catholic Hierarchy in the 2008 Election](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Catholics vs. the Catholic Hierarchy in the 2008 Election](/religioustheory/live/catholics-vs-the-catholic-hierarchy-in-the-2008-election/) October 26, 2008 — By [Victor E. Taylor](/authors/victor-taylor/) Live Victor Taylor examines Catholic voters in Pennsylvania, abortion politics, and the Church hierarchy's influence on conscience in the 2008 presidential election. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/catholics-vs-the-catholic-hierarchy-in-the-2008-election/) ![Laclau and Democracy in Light of the Current Crisis](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Laclau and Democracy in Light of the Current Crisis](/religioustheory/live/laclau-and-democracy-in-light-of-the-current-crisis/) October 20, 2008 — By [Daniel Douglas Miller](/authors/daniel-douglas-miller/) Live Daniel Douglas Miller uses Ernesto Laclau's account of democracy and populism to argue that the financial crisis demands political action, not passive hope. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/laclau-and-democracy-in-light-of-the-current-crisis/) ![The Hinge of History, or Žižek’s “New Politics”](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [The Hinge of History, or Žižek’s “New Politics”](/religioustheory/live/the-hinge-of-history-or-zizek-s-new-politics/) October 17, 2008 — By [Carl A. Raschke](/authors/carl-raschke/) Live Carl A. Raschke asks whether the 2008 financial crash marks a hinge of history, testing Žižek's call for a new politics against consumer capitalism today. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/the-hinge-of-history-or-zizek-s-new-politics/) ![“Competing in Goodness”: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Testimony at Guantanamo](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [“Competing in Goodness”: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s Testimony at Guantanamo](/religioustheory/live/competing-in-goodness-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-s-testimony-at/) October 6, 2008 — By [Faisal Devji](/authors/faisal-devji/) Live Faisal Devji analyzes Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's Guantanamo testimony, exploring militant pluralism, legal exception, guilt, war, and competing in goodness. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/competing-in-goodness-khalid-sheikh-mohammed-s-testimony-at/) ![Crisis: A Liberation from Capitalism?](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp) ### [Crisis: A Liberation from Capitalism?](/religioustheory/live/crisis-a-liberation-from-capitalism/) October 4, 2008 — By [Creston Davis](/authors/creston-davis/) Live Creston Davis interprets the 2008 financial collapse through Hegel and Badiou, arguing that crisis exposes labor's power and capitalism's hidden dependence. [Learn More](/religioustheory/live/crisis-a-liberation-from-capitalism/) ← Newer Page 15 of 16 Older → [The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT)](https://jcrt.org) is an online, peer-reviewed, academic publication published by [The Whitestone Foundation](http://thewhitestonefoundation.org/), a 501c3 corporation located in Boulder, Colorado. ISSN 1530-5228. Articles are open access under a [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license; authors retain copyright. 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