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[Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/9781481324250/) ![Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 3 (Nirvikar Singh)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/02/golden_temple_sikhism.webp) ### [Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 3 (Nirvikar Singh)](/religioustheory/posts/sikhs-as-subalterns-voice-inequality-and-power-part-3-nirvikar-singh/) February 8, 2024 — By Nirvikar Singh The following is the third installment of a three part series. The first can be found here, the second here. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/sikhs-as-subalterns-voice-inequality-and-power-part-3-nirvikar-singh/) ![Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, and Power, Part 1 (Nirvikar Singh)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/02/sikh_man_agra_10.webp) ### [Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, and Power, Part 1 (Nirvikar Singh)](/religioustheory/posts/sikhs-as-subalterns-voice-inequality-and-power/) January 10, 2024 — By Nirvikar Singh The following article is the first of three installments. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/sikhs-as-subalterns-voice-inequality-and-power/) ![Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 2 (Kieryn Wurts)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/05/jerusalem_gay_pride_parade_05-1.webp) ### [Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 2 (Kieryn Wurts)](/religioustheory/posts/body-erotic-john-boswells-history-of-eurochristian-sexuality-and-the-case-for-transcendental-somatics-part-2-kieryn-wurts/) May 8, 2023 — By Kieryn E. Wurts 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/body-erotic-john-boswells-history-of-eurochristian-sexuality-and-the-case-for-transcendental-somatics-part-2-kieryn-wurts/) ![A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 3 (Tink Tinker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/11/indian-picture.webp) ### [A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 3 (Tink Tinker)](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-3-tink-tinker/) November 10, 2022 — By 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-3-tink-tinker/) ![A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 2 (Tink Tinker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/11/native-american-women.webp) ### [A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 2 (Tink Tinker)](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-2-tink-tinker/) October 31, 2022 — By 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-2-tink-tinker/) ![A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 1 (Tink Tinker)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/11/1600px-john_wesley_preaching_to_native_american_indians-_engraving-_wellcome_v0006867-1210x642.webp) ### [A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 1 (Tink Tinker)](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-1-tink-tinker/) October 15, 2022 — By 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-1-tink-tinker/) ![Critical Conversations – A Conversation With Arthur Bradley On Sovereignty, Part 1](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/06/leviathan_-_hobbes_leviathan_1651_title_page_-_bl.webp) ### [Critical Conversations – A Conversation With Arthur Bradley On Sovereignty, Part 1](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-a-conversation-with-arthur-bradley-on-sovereignty-part-1/) May 27, 2022 — By editors The following is the first part of a transcript of one of our ongoing “Critical Conversations” with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-a-conversation-with-arthur-bradley-on-sovereignty-part-1/) ![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 Part 1 presents a transcripted debrief from participants in the decoloniality conference, mapping core disagreements, shared concerns, and conceptual stakes [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/debriefing-on-decoloniality-a-public-conversation/) ![From The Gift Of Mortality To The Name Of God (Jakob Helmut Deibl)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/09/paolo_uccello_cacciata_dal_paradiso_terrestre_e_storie_di_caino_e_abele_1430-40_ca-_09_caino_e_abele_bambini.webp) ### [From The Gift Of Mortality To The Name Of God (Jakob Helmut Deibl)](/religioustheory/posts/from-the-gift-of-mortality-to-the-name-of-god-jakob-helmut-deibl/) September 23, 2019 — By Jakob Deibl The following is a continuation of a series of articles corresponding to chapters of the book Preis der Sterblichkeit: Christentum und Neuer Humanismus [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/from-the-gift-of-mortality-to-the-name-of-god-jakob-helmut-deibl/) ![Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 2 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/07/lome_fetish_market1.webp) ### [Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/fetishism-and-the-erasure-of-identity-part-2-roger-green/) July 16, 2019 — By Roger K. Green The following is the second of a two-part series. The initial installment can be found here. Although we must constantly remember that the fetish is the product [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/fetishism-and-the-erasure-of-identity-part-2-roger-green/) ![Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 1 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/07/fetiche_ewe-togo_2.webp) ### [Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 1 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/fetishism-and-the-erasure-of-identity-part-1-roger-green/) July 8, 2019 — By Roger K. Green The following is the first of a two-part series. The second installment can be found here. The concept of fetishism has a special place within the long history [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/fetishism-and-the-erasure-of-identity-part-1-roger-green/) ![“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin, Part 3 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/03/native-american-statue.webp) ### [“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin, Part 3 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)](/religioustheory/posts/damn-it-hes-an-injun-christian-murder-colonial-wealth-and-tanned-human-skin-part-3-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe/) March 26, 2019 — By Tink Tinker The following is the final of a three-part series. The first installation can be found here, the second here. The article in full originally appeared in The New [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/damn-it-hes-an-injun-christian-murder-colonial-wealth-and-tanned-human-skin-part-3-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe/) ![“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe), Part 1](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2019/03/1600px-thumbnail.webp) ### [“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe), Part 1](/religioustheory/posts/damn-it-hes-an-injun-christian-murder-colonial-wealth-and-tanned-human-skin-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe-part-1/) March 14, 2019 — By Tink Tinker 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/damn-it-hes-an-injun-christian-murder-colonial-wealth-and-tanned-human-skin-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe-part-1/) ![God and History, Lecture 5 (Johannes Zachhuber)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/11/the-ruins-of-time.webp) ### [God and History, Lecture 5 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-history-lecture-5-johannes-zachhuber/) November 13, 2018 — By 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 [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-history-lecture-5-johannes-zachhuber/) ![Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part II (Kevin Lewis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/02/william_blake_-_satan_smiting_job_with_sore_boils_-_google_art_project.webp) ### [Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part II (Kevin Lewis)](/religioustheory/posts/mischief-idolatry-and-the-demonic-toward-a-hermeneutic-of-play-part-ii-kevin-lewis/) May 28, 2018 — By Kevin Lewis The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. We proceed first by a reminder of Scripture itself (which makes no [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/mischief-idolatry-and-the-demonic-toward-a-hermeneutic-of-play-part-ii-kevin-lewis/) ![Review – The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Rebekah Gordon)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/10/pastors-daughter.webp) ### [Review – The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-evangelicals-the-struggle-to-shape-america-rebekah-gordon/) October 13, 2017 — By Rebekah Gordon *Fitzgerald, Francis. The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America. New York City, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017. ISBN-10: 1439131333. Hardcover [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-evangelicals-the-struggle-to-shape-america-rebekah-gordon/) ![Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 2 (Daniel Rhodes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/earthquake.webp) ### [Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 2 (Daniel Rhodes)](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-2-daniel-rhodes/) December 6, 2016 — By Daniel Rhodes The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The link to the first portion can be found here. As the source of productivity, time rendered as [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-2-daniel-rhodes/) ![Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 1 (Daniel Rhodes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/capitalism_0.webp) ### [Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 1 (Daniel Rhodes)](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-1-daniel-rhodes/) December 1, 2016 — By Daniel Rhodes In his long-awaited interjection into the debates on the future of Marxism after the collapse of Soviet state communism, Jacques Derrida introduces the notion [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-1-daniel-rhodes/) ![Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 3 (Alan Jay Richard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/11/william_blake_-_the_shepherd_from_songs_of_innocence_-_google_art_project.webp) ### [Dreaming Innocence in America – Paul Tillich’s Radical Theology of Liberation, Part 3 (Alan Jay Richard)](/religioustheory/posts/dreaming-innocence-in-america-paul-tillichs-radical-theology-of-liberation-part-3-alan-jay-richard/) November 29, 2016 — By Alan Jay Richard The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first installment can be accessed here. The second part can be found here It highlights [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/dreaming-innocence-in-america-paul-tillichs-radical-theology-of-liberation-part-3-alan-jay-richard/) ![Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 2 (Ronald Beiner)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/08/thomas_abel_prior_-_queen_victoria_opening_the_1851_universal_exhibition_at_the_crystal_palace_in_london_-_google_art_project.webp) ### [Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 2 (Ronald Beiner)](/religioustheory/posts/benjamins-concept-of-history-as-a-source-of-arendts-idea-of-judgment-part-2-ronald-beiner/) August 15, 2016 — By Ronald Beiner Part 2 extends the Benjamin-Arendt comparison by testing judgment against crisis and memory, clarifying how historical rupture reshapes political discernment [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/benjamins-concept-of-history-as-a-source-of-arendts-idea-of-judgment-part-2-ronald-beiner/) ![Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 1 (Ronald Beiner)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/08/benjamins-angel-of-history.webp) ### [Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 1 (Ronald Beiner)](/religioustheory/posts/benjamins-concept-of-history-as-a-source-of-arendts-idea-of-judgment-ronald-beiner/) August 8, 2016 — By Ronald Beiner Part 1 traces how Walter Benjamin's theses on history inform Hannah Arendt's account of judgment, emphasizing temporality, critique, and political The [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/benjamins-concept-of-history-as-a-source-of-arendts-idea-of-judgment-ronald-beiner/) ![Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 2 (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/06/storytelling.webp) ### [Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-2/) June 17, 2016 — By Roger K. Green The following is the second of a three-part series. The first part was published on May 31, 2016. It is especially significant that Heidegger’s attention to the [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-2/) ![Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology” – Part 1](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/04/hamlets-ghost.webp) ### [Jesus’ Ghost – Derrida, Christianity, and “Hauntology” – Part 1](/religioustheory/posts/jesus-ghost-derrida-christianity-and-hauntology-part-1/) April 27, 2016 — By editors > Jesus, who was concerned till manhood with his own personal development, was free from the contagious sickness of his age and his people; free from the [Learn More](/religioustheory/posts/jesus-ghost-derrida-christianity-and-hauntology-part-1/) [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. ISSN 1530-5228. 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