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                ![BOOK REVIEW: YASCHA MOUNK, THE IDENTITY TRAP: A STORY OF IDEAS AND POWER IN OUR TIME.](/images/jcrt-open-graph.webp)

### [BOOK REVIEW: YASCHA MOUNK, THE IDENTITY TRAP: A STORY OF IDEAS AND POWER IN OUR TIME.](/religioustheory/posts/9780593493205/)

August 18, 2026 — By Kev Grane

Kev Grane reviews Yascha Mounk’s The Identity Trap, whose sharpest contribution is showing how the identity synthesis undercuts its own egalitarian aims.

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### [Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness – Reflections From A Jew, Part 2 (Sarah Pessin)](/religioustheory/posts/kenosis-emancipation-pastness-reflections-from-a-jew-part-2-sarah-pessin/)

July 1, 2019 — By Sarah Pessin

Emphasized in a temporalized modality, and bringing together elements of our phenomenological and political reflections above, we may specifically unpack the

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### [Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 1 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-1/)

May 31, 2016 — By Roger K. Green

The term “political theology” is currently used in a variety of ways in current debate over the place of liberalism amid world crises in politics and It

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### [Review Essay – Peter Sloterdijk on Social Bonds, Freedom, and Religion](/religioustheory/posts/review-essay-peter-sloterdijk-on-social-bonds-freedom-and-religion/)

March 10, 2016 — By editors

The English reception of Peter Sloterdijk has been ambivalent at best, relying largely on hearsay from European interlocutors (Žižek especially) or gossip about

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