Religious Theory Posts
“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe), Part 1
The following is the first of a three-part installment. The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in January, 2019 It highlights key arguments
Review – The Intimate Universal (Stephen Bujno)
*William Desmond, The Intimate Universal: The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics. Columbia University Press, 2016. 520 pages
Review – The Enigmatic Absolute (Stanimir Panayotov)
*Joshua Ramey and Matthew S. Haar Farris (Eds.), Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: The Enigmatic Absolute 299 pages.
Review – Performance Apophatics (John Matthew Allison)
*Claire Maria Chambers. Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Hardback Hardback. It highlights
Review – Decolonizing Dialectics (Josiah Solis)
*Ciccariello-Maher, George. Decolonizing Dialectics. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2017. 256 pages. ISBN-10: 0822362430 ISBN-10: 0822362430. It highlights
God and History, Lecture 5 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the fifth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The existentialist approach you heard about last week
Inventing Afterlives – Review (Camille Grace Leon Angelo)
Janes, Regina M. Inventing Afterlives: The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Life After Death. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018. 384 pages 384 pages.
Religion And Mental Health – The Therapuetic Value Of The Teachings of Jesus, Part 2 (Thomas Roberts and Delbert Hayden)
The following is the second part in a two-part installment. You can find the first part here. Maintaining a State of Hope and Taking a Transcendent Perspective
Re-Envisioning Religious Studies As A Global Discipline – A Pre-AAR Symposium
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Denver in conjunction with its partner faculty
Religion And Mental Health – The Therapeutic Value Of The Teachings Of Jesus , Part 1 (Thomas Roberts And Delbert Hayden)
The following is the first part in a two-part installment. The second part can be found here. Author Note: The authors of this article take the position that
Towards A New Comparative Methodology In Religious Studies (Kara Roberts)
Author Note: The following was originally written as the introduction to a much longer comparative project between two religious myths Amy Balogh. It highlights
Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 2 (Philipp Valentini)
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. A non-Paulinian theology understands the Law not as a whole but as
Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)
> I am wondering if the agony of years > Could be traced to the seed of an hour > If the roots that spread out in the swamp > Ran too deep for the issuing
God And Existence, Lecture 4 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the fourth lecture in an eight-part lecture series. Readers can also refer to lectures one, two, and three It highlights key arguments
Review – Neurotheological Nuances (Joshua Canzona)
Neurotheology: How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality. Newberg, Andrew. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. ISBN 9780231179041. Hardback
Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 3 (Mark Murphy)
The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The second one can be found here The second one can be found here.
Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 2 (Mark Murphy)
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. What Does Lacan Mean When He Says That Spiritual Direction is a
Review – Medicinal Religion (Aaron Klink)
*Balboni, Michael J. and Peteet, John R. eds. Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice ISBN 9780190272432 Hardcover.
Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 1 (Mark Murphy)
Spiritual direction is defined as the help one gives to another in developing one’s relationship with the sacred, while the treatment of psychological symptoms
Negative Theology And Its Problems: Barth And Marion, Lecture 3 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the third lecture in an eight-lecture series. I have described in last week’s lecture how, during the 19th century, some serious challenges
The Dangers Of Dealing With Derrida – Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate On The “Religious” Reading Of Deconstruction, Part 3 (Neal DeRoo)
The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here, the second here. But one could embrace another prevalence for
The Dangers Of Dealing With Derrida – Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate On The “Religious” Reading Of Deconstruction, Part 2 (Neal DeRoo)
The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. If deconstruction problematizes the idea of a ‘pure’ logical
The Dangers Of Dealing With Derrida – Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate On The “Religious” Reading Of Deconstruction, Part 1 (Neal DeRoo)
On the surface, the debate between John D. Caputo and Martin Hägglund in the Spring 2011 edition of The Journal of Cultural and Religious Theory seems to be a
Beyond Religious Ideas – The Legacy Of Max Weber In Critical Theory And Critical Religion (Joel Harrison)
This article was initially published in The New Polis, March 23, 2018. In his essay “The Failure of Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion,” Donald Wiebe
The Critique Of Theism – Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Lecture 2 (Johannes Zachhuber)
The following is the second lecture in an eight-lecture series. The first can be found here. I introduced these lectures last week by pointing out the unique