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                ![The Imagination In Spinoza – The Moral Good Between Prophecy And The Amor Dei Intellectualis, Part 2 (Caterina De Gaetano)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/08/screenshot-2023-08-11-at-11-35-37-am.webp)

### [The Imagination In Spinoza – The Moral Good Between Prophecy And The Amor Dei Intellectualis, Part 2 (Caterina De Gaetano)](/religioustheory/posts/the-imagination-in-spinoza-the-moral-good-between-prophecy-and-the-amor-dei-intellectualis-part-2-caterina-de-gaetano/)

August 5, 2023 — By Caterina Gaetano

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and

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### [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

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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                ![Revolutionary Love – Kierkegaard’s Gift Economy As A Religious Corrective To The Leveling Of The Public Sphere, Part 1 (Andrew Ball)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/05/876px-s-ren_kierkegaard_1813-1855_-_9645353110.webp)

### [Revolutionary Love – Kierkegaard’s Gift Economy As A Religious Corrective To The Leveling Of The Public Sphere, Part 1 (Andrew Ball)](/religioustheory/posts/revolutionary-love-kierkegaards-gift-economy-as-a-religious-corrective-to-the-leveling-of-the-public-sphere-andrew-ball/)

May 16, 2020 — By Andrew J. Ball

Though Kierkegaard is typically considered to be the consummate philosopher of the single individual, his critique of secular modernity and institutional

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### [The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 2 (Brigid Burke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-mythology-of-afterlife-beliefs-and-their-impact-on-religious-conflict-part-2-brigid-burke/)

November 7, 2017 — By Brigid Burke

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. Zoroastrianism is believed to be an outgrowth of an

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                ![Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 1 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/09/7e40f143e74c385ee290c7e279d9897f.webp)

### [Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 1 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)](/religioustheory/posts/framing-religious-conflict-and-violence-insights-from-historical-institutionalism-part-1-vivek-swaroop-sharma/)

September 12, 2017 — By Vivek Swaroop Sharma

Killing hundreds of people in the name of “cow protection” would, at first glance, appear to be a headline drawn from a Monty Python skit It highlights

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### [Foucault’s Disciplinary Society And The Community Rule Of Qumran (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/foucaults-disciplinary-society-and-the-community-rule-of-qumran-rebekah-gordon/)

March 10, 2017 — By Rebekah Gordon

In his 1975 work Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault uses the lens of prison and society to examine the ways in which power structures act upon the

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### [Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 2 (Jodi Dean)](/religioustheory/posts/collective-desire-and-the-pathology-of-the-individual-part-2-jodi-dean/)

October 19, 2016 — By Jodi Dean

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment was published on October 10 and can be accessed here It highlights

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### [Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 1 (Jodi Dean)](/religioustheory/posts/collective-desire-and-the-pathology-of-the-individual-jodi-dean/)

October 10, 2016 — By Jodi Dean

An interesting strand of contemporary theory designates the specificity of capitalism with the qualifier “cognitive.” I do not write under this term, although I

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### [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

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### [Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 2 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajrayana-buddhism-part-2/)

June 8, 2016 — By Padraic Fitzgerald

The following is the second installment in a three-part series. The first installment was published on May 27, 2016 and can be found here It highlights

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### [Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 1 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajranayana-buddhism-part-1/)

May 27, 2016 — By Padraic Fitzgerald

Biopolitics, as Michel Foucault argued, views populations through an economic lens, as capital to be preserved and multiplied to keep the nation or tradition

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