Religious Theory Posts

The Religious Roots of Environmental Justice – An Online Conference

September 15, 2023 — By editors

Catherine Keller practices theology as a relation between ancient hints of ultimacy and current matters of urgency. As the George T As the George T. It

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George Batailles On Ethnographic Surrealism And “The Limits Of The Useful” – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)

August 20, 2023 — By editors

Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful. Translated and edited by Corey Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2022. Hardback. 360 pages

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The Imagination In Spinoza – The Moral Good Between Prophecy And The Amor Dei Intellectualis, Part 2 (Caterina De Gaetano)

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and

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The Imagination In Spinoza – The Moral Good Between Prophecy And The Amor Dei Intellectualis, Part 1 (Caterina De Gaetano)

July 27, 2023 — By editors

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 It highlights

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The Religious Roots Of Environmental Justice – Call For Papers Or Presentations (Conference)

Where: Online (Zoom) – Registration Required Submission deadline for proposals: Friday, September 15, 2023 It highlights key arguments and implications

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Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 2 (Magdalena Sedmak)

The following is the second of a two part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and

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Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 1 (Magdalena Sedmak)

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 It highlights

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Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 3 (Kieryn Wurts)

May 22, 2023 — By editors

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

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Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 2 (Kieryn Wurts)

May 8, 2023 — By editors

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

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Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 1 (Kieryn Wurts)

April 24, 2023 — By editors

John Boswell (1947-94) was a Yale philologist who published two major studies betweeen 1980 and 1994 which, considered together, constitute an extended and

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Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 3 (Joshua Hall)

April 10, 2023 — By editors

The following is the last of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. Understandable fears to the contrary notwithstanding, a cult, by

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Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 2 (Joshua Hall)

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

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Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 1 (Joshua Hall)

This project was provoked by the almost nonexistent pushback from the Democratic liberal establishment to the (2020) exoneration of Kyle Rittenhouse, despite

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Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, And The Quotidian Academic Terror Of “Christian Nationalism”

The following essay appeared recently in The New Polis. It is republished here because of its timeliness and importance. What exactly is Christian nationalism?

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Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 3 (Rebekah Howes)

The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. The earlier article by Prof The earlier article by Prof.

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Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 2 (Rebekah Howes)

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

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Hegel Contra God – Replying To Gavin Hyman’s “New Hegel”, Part 1 (Rebekah Howes)

The following is the first of a three-part series. The earlier article by Prof. Hyman to which the author replies can be found here It highlights key arguments

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Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 3 (Erik Meganck)

The following is the third of a three part-series. The first can be found here, the second here. Where planning fails, despair grows Planning is also faithless.

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Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 2 (Erik Meganck)

The following is the second of a three part-series. The first can be found here. Love is not the opposite of planning; openness is not the opposite of

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Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 1 (Erik Meganck)

Philo-sophy literally means “love of wisdom.” But this can be read in more than one way. There is the well-known objective genitive, proposing that philosophers

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A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 3 (Tink Tinker)

The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal. It

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A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 2 (Tink Tinker)

The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal

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A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 1 (Tink Tinker)

The following is the first of a three-part series. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal It highlights key arguments

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Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)

October 5, 2022 — By editors

The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here , the second here. A genealogy of the neoliberalization, together with the

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Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)

September 21, 2022 — By editors

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here . The supreme achievement of neoliberalism, according to Han, is that it has

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