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# **Religious Theory Posts**

              ![Locating The Oceanic In Sylvia Wynter’s “Demonic Ground”, Part 2 (Justine M. Bakker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/01/seabirds.webp)

### [Locating The Oceanic In Sylvia Wynter’s “Demonic Ground”, Part 2 (Justine M. Bakker)](/religioustheory/posts/locating-the-oceanic-in-sylvia-wynters-demonic-ground-part-2-justine-m-bakker/)

January 17, 2022 — By [Justine M. Bakker](/authors/justine-m-bakker/)

                  Critical Race Theory

                  African Studies

Part 2 advances the oceanic reading of Wynter by detailing method and stakes, relating demonic ground to coloniality, black study, and experimental theoretical

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              ![Locating The Oceanic in Sylvia Wynter’s “Demonic Ground”, Part 1 (Justine M. Bakker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/01/irish-ruins.webp)

### [Locating The Oceanic in Sylvia Wynter’s “Demonic Ground”, Part 1 (Justine M. Bakker)](/religioustheory/posts/locating-yhe-oceanic-in-sylvia-wynters-demonic-ground/)

January 7, 2022 — By [Justine M. Bakker](/authors/justine-m-bakker/)

                  Critical Race Theory

Part 1 introduces an oceanic reading of Sylvia Wynter's “Demonic Ground,” developing the conceptual frame and tracing how embodiment, race, and poetics

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              ![The Futurity Of God, Part 2 (Lenart Škof)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/12/800px-apophysis_cyclone.webp)

### [The Futurity Of God, Part 2 (Lenart Škof)](/religioustheory/posts/the-futurity-of-god-part-2-lenart-skof/)

December 16, 2021 — By [Lenart Škof](/authors/lenart-skof/)

                  Philosophical Theology

                  Philosophy of Religion

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. In a chapter titled “The Magic of Being Mormon”, Stephen H It highlights

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              ![The Futurity Of God, Part 1 (Lenart Škof)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/12/visnow_example_visualization_-_molecular_electrostatics.webp)

### [The Futurity Of God, Part 1 (Lenart Škof)](/religioustheory/posts/the-futurity-of-god-part-1-lenart-skof/)

December 2, 2021 — By [Lenart Škof](/authors/lenart-skof/)

                  Philosophical Theology

                  Philosophy of Religion

God, if we hold to this word, is the future itself, or rather the eternal reservoir beyond time and creating time, who constantly projects himself or pours

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              ![The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 2 (Michael C. Raubach)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/11/abrahams_sacrifice_the_sacrifice_of_isaac_met_dp888579-1119x642.webp)

### [The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 2 (Michael C. Raubach)](/religioustheory/posts/the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-part-2-michael-c-raubach/)

November 18, 2021 — By [Michael C. Raubach](/authors/michael-c-raubach/)

                  Philosophy of Religion

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here Is it not true, though, that many individuals of different races, creeds, and

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              ![The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 1 (Michael C. Raubach)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/11/800px-wandbild_portrait_george_floyd_von_eme_street_art_im_mauerpark_berlin.webp)

### [The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 1 (Michael C. Raubach)](/religioustheory/posts/the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-michael-c-raubach/)

November 4, 2021 — By [Michael C. Raubach](/authors/michael-c-raubach/)

                  Philosophy of Religion

                  Reviews

                  Philosophical Theology

                  Theology

In her 1992 masterpiece, The Broken Middle, the philosopher Gillian Rose explored what she saw as a baleful crisis of ethics in modern political discourse

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              ![Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 3 (John Cuda)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/10/screen-shot-2021-10-21-at-9-57-51-pm.webp)

### [Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 3 (John Cuda)](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths-part-3-john-cuda/)

October 21, 2021 — By [John Cuda](/authors/john-cuda/)

                  New Religions

                  Religion and Media

                  Religious Studies

Part 3 links entheogen practice and dreamwork, arguing that altered states function as a training ground for agency, myth-making, and transformed lived reality.

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              ![Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 2 (John Cuda)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/edward-howell-vltjdp8zy1c-unsplash.webp)

### [Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 2 (John Cuda)](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths-part-2-john-cuda/)

October 12, 2021 — By [John Cuda](/authors/john-cuda/)

                  New Religions

                  Religion and Media

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Symbolically, the idea of going beyond the edge of the ordinary world to

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              ![Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 1 (John Cuda)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/haley-lawrence-ewyga88k0yg-unsplash-1.webp)

### [Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 1 (John Cuda)](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths/)

October 4, 2021 — By [John Cuda](/authors/john-cuda/)

                  New Religions

                  Religion and Media

The following is the first of a three-part series. In this article I seek to analyze spiritual phenomena using contemporary mythological and pop-cultural

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              ![“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 2 (A.G. Holdier)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/800px-faith_fides_from_the_virtues_met_dp818312.webp)

### [“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 2 (A.G. Holdier)](/religioustheory/posts/teach-me-to-do-whats-right-faith-hope-and-love-as-post-religious-virtues-part-2-a-g-holdier/)

September 22, 2021 — By [A. G. Holdier](/authors/a-g-holdier/)

                  Religion and Literature

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. In short, then, despite the absence of God in Bad Times, the characters all come

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              ![“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 1 (A.G. Holdier)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/the_theological_virtues-_faith_charity_hope_met_dt7354.webp)

### [“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 1 (A.G. Holdier)](/religioustheory/posts/teach-me-to-do-whats-right-faith-hope-and-love-as-post-religious-virtues-part-1-a-g-holdier/)

September 8, 2021 — By [A. G. Holdier](/authors/a-g-holdier/)

                  Religion and Literature

> “God is the ‘beyond’ in the midst of our life.” > > – Dietrich Bonhoeffer > > “Are you lost, Father?” > > “Sorry?” > > “Are you lost?” > > “No It highlights

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              ![Let’s Get Real About Race – Two Very Timely Upcoming Online Seminars (Announcement)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/08/race.webp)

### [Let’s Get Real About Race – Two Very Timely Upcoming Online Seminars (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/lets-get-real-about-race-two-very-timely-upcoming-online-seminars-announcement/)

August 23, 2021 — By [editors](/editors/)

                  Announcements

                  Critical Conversations

                  Critical Race Theory

                  Difficult Discussions

                  Political Theology

                  Critical Theory

                  Globalization

                  Political Philosophy

                  Political Theory

It’s time to get real when we talk these days about race and racism. Ever since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the late spring of 2020 at the

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              ![Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity In Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 3 (Vinicius Marinho)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/08/hagiasophia_dome_pixinn-net.webp)

### [Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity In Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 3 (Vinicius Marinho)](/religioustheory/posts/thomas-aquinass-body-soul-dualism-and-the-hierarchy-of-human-dignity-in-brazil-theological-origins-of-a-nations-self-understanding-part-3-vinicius-marinho/)

August 16, 2021 — By [Vinicius Marinho](/authors/vinicius-marinho/)

                  Indigenous Religions

The following is the second of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. In sum, Boff proposes that a person is an indivisible body-soul

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              ![Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity In Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 2 (Vinicius Marinho)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/08/800px-bororo004.webp)

### [Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity In Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 2 (Vinicius Marinho)](/religioustheory/posts/thomas-aquinass-body-soul-dualism-and-the-hierarchy-of-human-dignity-in-brazil-theological-origins-of-a-nations-self-understanding-part-2-vinicius-marinho/)

August 9, 2021 — By [Vinicius Marinho](/authors/vinicius-marinho/)

                  Indigenous Religions

                  Postcolonial Theory

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The Ecclesial Endeavor to Define the Brazilian Soul: a Summa of the Colonial

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              ![Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity in Brazil –  Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 1 (Vinicius Marinho)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/08/menina_da_etnia_terena-1.webp)

### [Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity in Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 1 (Vinicius Marinho)](/religioustheory/posts/thomas-aquinass-body-soul-dualism-and-the-hierarchy-of-human-dignity-in-brazil-theological-origins-of-a-nations-hierarchical-self-understanding-part-1-vinicius-marinho/)

August 3, 2021 — By [Vinicius Marinho](/authors/vinicius-marinho/)

                  Indigenous Religions

                  Postcolonial Theory

“Manda quem pode, obedece quem tem juízo” is an old Brazilian proverb. It synthetizes, in two clauses, the dominant value of the Brazilian political culture:

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              ![Difficult Discussions – Christian Evangelicalism And Critical Race Theory (Announcement)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/07/dd-l.webp)

### [Difficult Discussions – Christian Evangelicalism And Critical Race Theory (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/difficult-discussions-christian-evangelicalism-and-critical-race-theory-announcement/)

July 26, 2021 — By [editors](/editors/)

                  Announcements

                  Difficult Discussions

                  Political Philosophy

                  Political Theology

                  Political Theory

                  Critical Conversations

                  Critical Race Theory

When: Thursday, September 23, 2021, 10 am-12 pm (Mountain Daylight Time) Register for online seminar: It highlights key arguments and implications for

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              ![Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 3 (Florian Klug)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/07/img_8685-1.webp)

### [Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 3 (Florian Klug)](/religioustheory/posts/truth-and-irony-beyond-binary-patterns-in-theological-reasoning-part-3-florian-klug/)

July 20, 2021 — By [Florian Klug](/authors/florian-klug/)

                  Theology

The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the

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              ![Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 2 (Florian Klug)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/07/800px-modern_art_gallery.webp)

### [Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 2 (Florian Klug)](/religioustheory/posts/truth-and-irony-beyond-binary-patterns-in-theological-reasoning-part-2-florian-klug/)

July 12, 2021 — By [Florian Klug](/authors/florian-klug/)

                  Theology

                  Reviews

                  Theory

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the Journal for

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              ![Truth And Irony –  Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 1 (Florian Klug)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/07/screen-shot-2021-07-14-at-11-56-23-am.webp)

### [Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 1 (Florian Klug)](/religioustheory/posts/truth-and-irony-beyond-binary-patterns-in-theological-reasoning-part-1-florian-klug/)

June 28, 2021 — By [Florian Klug](/authors/florian-klug/)

                  Theology

                  Lutheran Theology

                  Philosophy

                  Philosophy of Religion

The following is the first of a three-part series. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

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              ![Debriefing On Decoloniality – A Public Conversation, Part 2](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/06/nama_man_greeting_us_3693359757.webp)

### [Debriefing On Decoloniality – A Public Conversation, Part 2](/religioustheory/posts/debriefing-on-decoloniality-a-public-conversation-part-2/)

June 22, 2021 — By [editors](/editors/)

                  Decoloniality

Part 2 continues the debrief transcript, sharpening arguments about decoloniality, epistemic rupture, and institutional practice across regional and The

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              ![Debriefing On Decoloniality – A Public Conversation, Part 1](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/06/speakers_latino.webp)

### [Debriefing On Decoloniality – A Public Conversation, Part 1](/religioustheory/posts/debriefing-on-decoloniality-a-public-conversation/)

June 15, 2021 — By [editors](/editors/)

                  Decoloniality

Part 1 presents a transcripted debrief from participants in the decoloniality conference, mapping core disagreements, shared concerns, and conceptual stakes

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              ![Critical Conversations 10 – “Tenderness,” Or Putting Neoliberalism On The Analyst’s Couch (Announcement)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/06/the_kiss_klimt-1.webp)

### [Critical Conversations 10 – “Tenderness,” Or Putting Neoliberalism On The Analyst’s Couch (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-10-tenderness-or-putting-neoliberalism-on-the-analysts-couch-announcement/)

June 4, 2021 — By [editors](/editors/)

                  Announcements

                  Psychoanalysis

                  Theological Ethics

                  Conferences

                  Uncategorized

When: Tuesday, June 29, 10am Mountain Standard Time How: Zoom. By Advance Registration. Please register at the following link below It highlights key arguments

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              ![Economic Theology And The Indebtedness Of Everyday Life (Philip Goodchild And Devin Singh)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/06/bancnotes.webp)

### [Economic Theology And The Indebtedness Of Everyday Life (Philip Goodchild And Devin Singh)](/religioustheory/posts/economic-theology-and-the-indebtedness-of-everyday-life-philip-goodchild-and-devin-singh/)

May 31, 2021 — By [Philip Goodchild](/authors/philip-goodchild/); [Devin Singh](/authors/devin-singh/)

                  Political Theology

                  Political Theory

                  Critical Conversations

The following is the transcript of “Critical Conversations” No. 9, an ongoing series of Zoom seminars conducted by Whitestone Publications with distinguished

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              ![“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 2 (N.E. Boulting](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/05/fishing-pole.webp)

### [“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 2 (N.E. Boulting](/religioustheory/posts/scale-relative-ontology-and-simone-weils-spiritual-philosophy-part-2-n-e-boulting/)

May 18, 2021 — By [N. E. Boulting](/authors/n-e-boulting/)

                  Philosophical Theology

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Two not unrelated factors result in her rejection of ‘the New Science’ besides

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              ![“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 1 (N.E. Boulting)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/05/2014-08-25-simoneweilcroquis-byth-rioult.webp)

### [“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 1 (N.E. Boulting)](/religioustheory/posts/scale-relative-ontology-and-simone-weils-spiritual-philosophy-part-1-n-e-boulting/)

May 11, 2021 — By [N. E. Boulting](/authors/n-e-boulting/)

                  Philosophical Theology

                  Philosophy of Religion

Can the debilitating effects of Scientism – identifying knowledge solely “with science” – be overcome? To answer that question, Simone Weil’s treatment of her

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