Religious Theory Posts
Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 1 (Wendy Felese)
The following is the first of a two-part series. It was originally published at a 2019 conference in Athens, Greece.1 When teaching classes like World Religions
Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 4 (Kelly Maeshiro)
The following is the last of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here, the third here. Barth’s theology is in many ways contiguous with
Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)
The following is the third of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Philosophically speaking, Hegel’s Absolute idealism represented
Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 2 (Kelly Maeshiro)
The following is the second of a four-part series. The first can be found here. Kantian idealism for Hegel represents the “shape” of Spirit corresponding to
Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 1 (Kelly Maeshiro)
In the Christian tradition, the question of whether philosophy is necessary for theology, or even relevant to it, is a question almost as old as theology
Critical Conversations – American Indian Worldview And The Twinned Cosmos Of Indigenous America (Barbara Alice Mann, Onondawaga, Bear Clan And Tink Tinker, Wazhazhe, Osage Nation, Eagle Clan)
The following is the video and transcript of the fifth “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by Whitestone
Call For Presentations And Proposals – Decoloniality And Disintegration Of Western Cognitive Empire, Or Rethinking Sovereignty And Territoriality In The 21st Century (Announcement)
The New Polis in collaboration with the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (part of The Whitestone Foundation of publications) announces a webinar-based
Critical Conversations – “On Decoloniality” With Walter Mignolo (Announcement)
An earlier version of this posting had the date listed as “December,” which would imply the webinar had already occurred It highlights key arguments and
Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 4 (Daniel Reiser)
The following is the last of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here, the third here. Is what Martel presents his readers only a
Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 3 (Daniel Reiser)
The following is the third of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Beyond the question of metaphor and reality, the greatest
Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 2 (Daniel Reiser)
The following is the second of a four-part series. The first can be found here. Hasidism, which translated Kabbalah into psychological categories, was a target
Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 1 (Daniel Reiser)
Yann Martel’s 2001 bestselling novel Life of Pi, later released in 2012 as a prize-winning box office hit, addresses themes such as religion, faith It
Critical Conversations – American Indian Worldview And The Twinned Cosmos Of Indigenous America (Announcement)
Participants are invited to join us live in the fifth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the
Antinomian Flesh, Part 3 (David Kline)
The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Both before nomos and therefore its condition of enactment, the
Critical Conversations – 2020 And The Catastrophe Of The Global Neoliberal Order (Announcement)
Participants are invited to join us live in the fourth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the
Antinomian Flesh, Part 2 (David Kline)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The above descriptions of nomos encapsulate general sociological, political
Antinomian Flesh, Part 1 (David Kline)
In this essay I explore the idea of what I call an “antinomian flesh.” Looking to the concept of nomos theorized by sociologists, political and legal theorists
Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 3 (Melissa Conroy)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Likewise, Teresa de Lauretis argues that gender is best
Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 2 (Melissa Conroy)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The current medical paradigm works to suppress and erase these bodies by
Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 1 (Melissa Conroy)
In June 2019 the Congregation for Catholic Education released a document entitled “Male and Female He Created Them: Towards a Path of Dialogue on the Question
Critical Conversations -“Subjectivities Since The Sixties” (Announcement)
Participants are invited to join us live in the second of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the
“The End Of Cognitive Empire” (Critical Conversations)
The following is the video and transcript of the first of “Critical Conversations”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by The New Polis
The Ultimate And The Penultimate – Bonhoeffer’s Twofold Contextualism In Adjudicating Competing Ethical Claims, Part 2 (W. Travis McMaken)
The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Reflecting on the development of Bonhoeffer’s ethical thought, Rasmussen notes
The Ultimate And The Penultimate – Bonhoeffer’s Twofold Contextualism In Adjudicating Competing Ethical Claims, Part 1 (W. Travis McMaken)
The following is the first of a two-part series. The life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer quickly captured the imagination of theologians, clergy, and lay
Bushwhacking Derrida – “Perception” – “Context of Context”, “The Hunter And The Hunted” (Gary Bedford)
After Derrida, how can philosophy continue to think critically, and for our task here, ontologically2…? Can a critique of the context of perception via its