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Likewise, Teresa de Lauretis argues that gender is best [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-3-melissa-conroy/) ![Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 1 (Melissa Conroy)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/10/pair_of_mandarin_ducks.webp) ### [Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 1 (Melissa Conroy)](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-1-melissa-conroy/) September 28, 2020 — By 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-1-melissa-conroy/) ![Bushwhacking Derrida – “Perception” – “Context of Context”, “The Hunter And The Hunted” (Gary Bedford)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/08/screen-shot-2020-08-17-at-5-00-03-pm.webp) ### [Bushwhacking Derrida – “Perception” – “Context of Context”, “The Hunter And The Hunted” (Gary Bedford)](/religioustheory/posts/bushwhacking-derrida-perception-context-of-context-the-hunter-and-the-hunted-gary-bedford/) August 10, 2020 — By Gary Bedford After Derrida, how can philosophy continue to think critically, and for our task here, ontologically2…? 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New York, Columbia University Press, 2016 It highlights key [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/760/) ![Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 2 (Daniel Tutt)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/09/public-domain-images-free-stock-photos-wedding-dress-outdoors-green-grass-wisteria-vines.webp) ### [Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 2 (Daniel Tutt)](/religioustheory/posts/love-psychoanalysis-and-leftist-political-ontology-part-2-daniel-tutt/) September 13, 2016 — By Daniel Tutt The following is the second installment of a two-part article by Daniel Tutt entitled “Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology.” It has been [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/love-psychoanalysis-and-leftist-political-ontology-part-2-daniel-tutt/) [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. 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