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                ![Conference on Populism, Nationalism, and the Future of Democracy – Call for Papers and Presentations (Conferences)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2025/04/bundesarchiv_bild_183-1989-1106-405_plauen_demonstration_vor_dem_rathaus.webp)

### [Conference on Populism, Nationalism, and the Future of Democracy – Call for Papers and Presentations (Conferences)](/religioustheory/posts/conference-on-populism-nationalism-and-the-future-of-democracy-call-for-papers-and-presentations-conferences/)

April 18, 2025 — By editors

This call invites interdisciplinary papers on populism, nationalism, and democratic futures, outlining themes, participation details, and deadlines for

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                ![Special Issue On Religion and Bioethics (Call for Papers)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2025/02/800px-biotechnology_research_3617772958.webp)

### [Special Issue On Religion and Bioethics (Call for Papers)](/religioustheory/posts/special-issue-on-religion-and-bioethics-call-for-papers/)

January 23, 2025 — By editors

The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to the intersection of religion and bioethics It

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                ![Religion and Bioethics (Conferencee)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/09/human_genome.webp)

### [Religion and Bioethics (Conferencee)](/religioustheory/posts/religion-and-bioethics-conferencee/)

December 18, 2024 — By editors

Sponsored by the The Whitestone Foundation dba The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory in collaboration with the University of Denver It highlights

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                ![Healing As A Multimedia Practice – Contemporary Spirituality In Turkey, Part 1 (Duygu Sendag)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/09/how-art-therapy-can-help-with-depression.webp)

### [Healing As A Multimedia Practice – Contemporary Spirituality In Turkey, Part 1 (Duygu Sendag)](/religioustheory/posts/healing-as-a-multimedia-practice-contemporary-spirituality-in-turkey-part-1-duygu-sendag/)

October 17, 2024 — By Duygu Sendag

Zeynep, a 37-year-old Turkish woman, comes from a secular family background. She has traveled to Bali and India on different occasions to participate in yoga

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                ![Conference on Religion and Bioethics – Call for Proposals](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/09/human_genome.webp)

### [Conference on Religion and Bioethics – Call for Proposals](/religioustheory/posts/conference-on-religion-and-bioethics-call-for-proposals/)

September 26, 2024 — By editors

This call for proposals frames a conference on religion and bioethics, inviting interdisciplinary work on ethics, theology, policy, and emerging The argument

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                ![What Black Disabled Bodies Can Teach Us About Environmental Justice (Robert Monson)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/07/disabled_bipoc_in_front_of_pride_flag.webp)

### [What Black Disabled Bodies Can Teach Us About Environmental Justice (Robert Monson)](/religioustheory/posts/what-black-disabled-bodies-can-teach-us-about-environmental-justice-robert-monson/)

July 10, 2024 — By Robert Monson

As early as 2014, governmental officials in the city of Flint, Michigan made a series of decisions that would prove to have deleterious effects on the people

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                ![Metaphysical Protestantism-A Comparative Literary Ecology (Zane Johnson)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/09/20210225-104958-clear-cut-forests-eugene-or-webextent0106.webp)

### [Metaphysical Protestantism-A Comparative Literary Ecology (Zane Johnson)](/religioustheory/posts/metaphysical-protestantism-a-comparative-literary-ecology-zane-johnson/)

June 5, 2024 — By Zane Johnson

The influence of religions on human attitudes toward the non-human, whether beneficent or deleterious, has been the subject of serious scholarly debate since at

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                ![Religious Sacrificial Sympathy- How Man Became More Valuable Than Beast (Kev Grane)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/09/3725.webp)

### [Religious Sacrificial Sympathy- How Man Became More Valuable Than Beast (Kev Grane)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-sacrificial-sympathy-how-man-became-more-valuable-than-beast-kev-grane/)

March 15, 2024 — By Kev Grane

The religious attitude of the West today demonstrates a consumerist ethos that would have been deeply foreign to the religious discourse of old It highlights

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                ![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

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                ![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

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                ![The Re-Enchantment Of Bodies – The Transformative Power Of Charismatic Healings, Part 2 (Anna Magnasco)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/12/screenshot-2023-12-25-at-5-56-48-pm.webp)

### [The Re-Enchantment Of Bodies – The Transformative Power Of Charismatic Healings, Part 2 (Anna Magnasco)](/religioustheory/posts/the-re-enchantment-of-bodies-the-transformative-power-of-charismatic-healings-part-2-anna-magnasco/)

December 12, 2023 — By Anna-Maria Magnasco

The following is the first of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural

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                ![What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/09/albert-niemeyer-2016_andy_warhol.webp)

### [What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/what-exactly-is-postmodernism-and-how-did-it-change-the-landscape-of-religious-studies-part-2-carl-raschke/)

October 11, 2023 — By Carl A. Raschke

This article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. Taylor’s typification of postmodernism as Flatland, however, as the quintessential

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                ![What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/09/viewing_robert_smithsons_spiral_jetty_on_june_18th_2018-1200x642.webp)

### [What Exactly Is Postmodernism, And How Did It Change The Landscape Of Religious Studies?, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/what-exactly-is-postmodernism-and-how-did-it-change-the-landscape-of-religious-studies-part-1-carl-raschke/)

September 28, 2023 — By Carl A. Raschke

Almost a half century ago a change took place in the humanities, and by extension in the fledgling field of religious studies It highlights key arguments

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                ![The Religious Roots of Environmental Justice – An Online Conference](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/07/ta_prohm_iii.webp)

### [The Religious Roots of Environmental Justice – An Online Conference](/religioustheory/posts/the-religious-roots-of-environmental-justice-an-online-conference/)

September 15, 2023 — By editors

Catherine Keller practices theology as a relation between ancient hints of ultimacy and current matters of urgency. As the George T As the George T. It

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                ![The Religious Roots Of Environmental Justice – Call For Papers Or Presentations (Conference)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/07/ta_prohm_iii.webp)

### [The Religious Roots Of Environmental Justice – Call For Papers Or Presentations (Conference)](/religioustheory/posts/the-religious-roots-of-environmental-justice-call-for-papers-or-presentations-conference/)

July 13, 2023 — By editors

Where: Online (Zoom) – Registration Required Submission deadline for proposals: Friday, September 15, 2023 It highlights key arguments and implications

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                ![Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, And The Quotidian Academic Terror Of “Christian Nationalism”](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/02/american-flag-spanish-mission.webp)

### [Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, And The Quotidian Academic Terror Of “Christian Nationalism”](/religioustheory/posts/evangelicalism-pentecostalism-and-the-quotidian-academic-terror-of-christian-nationalism/)

February 23, 2023 — By editors

The following essay appeared recently in The New Polis. It is republished here because of its timeliness and importance. What exactly is Christian nationalism?

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                ![Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 3 (Erik Meganck)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/12/rodin_the_thinker_p1070090.webp)

### [Philosophy As Love – Unblocking The Road From Athens To Jerusalem, Part 3 (Erik Meganck)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophy-as-love-unblocking-the-road-from-athens-to-jerusalem-part-3-erik-meganck/)

December 29, 2022 — By Erik Meganck

The following is the third of a three part-series. The first can be found here, the second here. Where planning fails, despair grows Planning is also faithless.

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                ![Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/10/tellus_-_ara_pacis.webp)

### [Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-as-the-state-religion-of-neoliberalism-part-3-carl-raschke/)

October 5, 2022 — By Carl A. Raschke

The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here , the second here. A genealogy of the neoliberalization, together with the

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                ![Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/10/isabella_whiteford.webp)

### [Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-as-the-state-religion-of-neoliberalism-part-2-carl-raschke/)

September 21, 2022 — By Carl A. Raschke

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here . The supreme achievement of neoliberalism, according to Han, is that it has

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                ![Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/10/august_labicana_massimo_inv56230_n2.webp)

### [Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-as-the-state-religion-of-neoliberalism-carl-raschke/)

September 7, 2022 — By Carl A. Raschke

> “Neptunus alii per alia, poterunt intellegi qui qualesque sint, quoque eos nomine consuetudo nuncupaverit, hoc eos et venerari et colere debemus.” – Cicero

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                ![Embodiment – A Conference On The Crisis In Contemporary Theory And The Humanities (Announcement)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/08/img_0123-2.webp)

### [Embodiment – A Conference On The Crisis In Contemporary Theory And The Humanities (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/embodiment-a-conference-on-the-crisis-in-contemporary-theory-and-the-humanities-announcement/)

August 25, 2022 — By editors

You must register in advance (see below) whereupon you will automatically receive a participation link. If you are having trouble, please email us It highlights

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                ![Orientalism, Ontology, And Orientation – A Muslim Perspective On Charles H. Long, Part 1 (Mehnaz Afridi)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/08/quran_inscriptions_on_wall_lodhi_gardens_delhi.webp)

### [Orientalism, Ontology, And Orientation – A Muslim Perspective On Charles H. Long, Part 1 (Mehnaz Afridi)](/religioustheory/posts/orientalism-ontology-and-orientation/)

August 9, 2022 — By Mehnaz Afridi

The following is the first of a two-part series. The full article is published in the spring 2022 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

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                ![Rapture Music – Intensity And Eschatology Within Christian Revival Movements, Part 3 (Fraser Macdonald)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/08/worship-band.webp)

### [Rapture Music – Intensity And Eschatology Within Christian Revival Movements, Part 3 (Fraser Macdonald)](/religioustheory/posts/rapture-music-intensity-and-eschatology-within-christian-revival-movements-part-3-fraser-macdonald/)

July 25, 2022 — By Fraser Macdonald

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. The full article is also available in the Spring 2022 issue of

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                ![Rapture Music – Intensity And Eschatology Within Christian Revival Movements, Part 2 (Fraser Macdonald)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/08/800px-haitian_vodou_altar_to_petwo_rada_and_gede_spirits_november_5_2010.webp)

### [Rapture Music – Intensity And Eschatology Within Christian Revival Movements, Part 2 (Fraser Macdonald)](/religioustheory/posts/rapture-music-intensity-and-eschatology-within-christian-revival-movements-part-2-fraser-macdonald/)

July 12, 2022 — By Fraser Macdonald

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The full article is also available in the Spring 2022 issue of the Journal for

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                ![Rapture Music – Intensity And Eschatology Within Christian Revival Movements, Part 1 (Fraser Macdonald)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/08/iaptdbras.webp)

### [Rapture Music – Intensity And Eschatology Within Christian Revival Movements, Part 1 (Fraser Macdonald)](/religioustheory/posts/rapture-music-intensity-and-eschatology-within-christian-revival-movements-part-1-fraser-macdonald/)

July 4, 2022 — By Fraser Macdonald

The following is the first of a three-part series. The full article is also available in the Spring 2022 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

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                ![Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings Of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 3 (Jake Sirota)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/02/allee_jacques_derrida_-_paris_vi_fr75_-_2021-07-29_-_1-1200x642.webp)

### [Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings Of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 3 (Jake Sirota)](/religioustheory/posts/geschlecht-iii-authentic-faith-religion-and-politics-in-derridas-readings-of-heideggers-geist-part-3-jake-sirota/)

February 23, 2022 — By Jake S. Sirota

The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Derrida’s suspicion of and discomfort with the seemingly

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                ![“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 1 (A.G. Holdier)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/the_theological_virtues-_faith_charity_hope_met_dt7354.webp)

### [“Teach Me To Do What’s Right” – Faith, Hope, And Love As Post-Religious Virtues, Part 1 (A.G. Holdier)](/religioustheory/posts/teach-me-to-do-whats-right-faith-hope-and-love-as-post-religious-virtues-part-1-a-g-holdier/)

September 8, 2021 — By A. G. Holdier

> “God is the ‘beyond’ in the midst of our life.” > > – Dietrich Bonhoeffer > > “Are you lost, Father?” > > “Sorry?” > > “Are you lost?” > > “No It highlights

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                ![Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 4 (Daniel Reiser)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/12/albert_bierstadt_farallon_island_1887_oil_on_canvas.webp)

### [Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 4 (Daniel Reiser)](/religioustheory/posts/tsimtsum-in-life-of-pi-part-4-daniel-reiser/)

December 22, 2020 — By Daniel Reiser

The following is the last of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here, the third here. Is what Martel presents his readers only a

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                ![Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 3 (Daniel Reiser)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/12/rabbi_pinchas_hakohen_lintup.webp)

### [Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 3 (Daniel Reiser)](/religioustheory/posts/tsimtsum-in-life-of-pi-part-3-daniel-reiser/)

December 15, 2020 — By Daniel Reiser

The following is the third of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Beyond the question of metaphor and reality, the greatest

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                ![Antinomian Flesh, Part 3 (David Kline)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/11/toni_morrison_2008-2.webp)

### [Antinomian Flesh, Part 3 (David Kline)](/religioustheory/posts/antinomian-flesh-part-3-david-kline/)

November 9, 2020 — By David Kline

The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Both before nomos and therefore its condition of enactment, the

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                ![The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 3 (Alberto Urquidez)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/07/milagros.webp)

### [The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 3 (Alberto Urquidez)](/religioustheory/posts/the-religious-significance-of-miracles-why-humes-critique-is-superfluous-part-3-alberto-urquidez/)

July 29, 2020 — By Alberto Urquidez

Surprisingly few commentators have advanced this basic criticism against Hume’s argument. One glaring exception is the Wittgensteinian philosopher of religion

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                ![The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 2 (Alberto Urquidez)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/07/allan_ramsay_-_david_hume_1711_-_1776-_historian_and_philosopher_-_google_art_project.webp)

### [The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 2 (Alberto Urquidez)](/religioustheory/posts/the-religious-significance-of-miracles-why-humes-critique-is-superfluous-part-2-alberto-urquidez/)

July 22, 2020 — By Alberto Urquidez

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The question I shall now consider is this: If not all miracles are religious

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                ![The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 1 (Alberto Urquidez)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/07/rubens-les_miracles_de_saint_benoit.webp)

### [The Religious Significance Of Miracles – Why Hume’s Critique Is Superfluous, Part 1 (Alberto Urquidez)](/religioustheory/posts/the-religious-significance-of-miracles-why-humes-critique-is-superfluous/)

July 14, 2020 — By Alberto Urquidez

The argument from miracles seeks to prove that a religious deity (such as God) exists on the premise that only God could have caused a miracle to occur

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                ![Religious Studies – The Final Colonization Of American Indians, Part 2 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/06/shonka_sabe.webp)

### [Religious Studies – The Final Colonization Of American Indians, Part 2 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-the-final-colonization-of-american-indians-part-1-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe-2/)

June 9, 2020 — By Tink Tinker

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Indian cultures are very complex, and Osage culture is no different in that

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                ![Religious Studies – The Final Colonization Of American Indians, Part 1 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/06/screen-shot-2020-06-08-at-9-34-57-pm.webp)

### [Religious Studies – The Final Colonization Of American Indians, Part 1 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-the-final-colonization-of-american-indians-part-1-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe/)

June 1, 2020 — By Tink Tinker

The following is the first of a two-part series. The second can be found here. In late 2019 I was invited to deliver a paper at an international symposium

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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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                ![“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness –  Resituating A Political Theology, Part 1 (James E. Willis, III)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/05/img_4279.webp)

### [“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 1 (James E. Willis, III)](/religioustheory/posts/naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-james-e-willis-iii/)

May 1, 2020 — By James E. Willis III

The Death of God theological movement of the mid-twentieth century serves as a productive starting place to consider spiritual violence in our time, or the

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### [The Curious Whiteheadian Proclivity In Scheler’s Account Of God And Persons, Part 1 (J. Edward Hackett)](/religioustheory/posts/the-curious-whiteheadian-proclivity-in-schelers-account-of-god-and-persons-j-edward-hackett/)

April 16, 2020 — By J. Edward Hackett

Before explicating the underlying structure of Scheler’s panentheism, I wanted to take some time and explain what Scheler’s phenomenological method entails and

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                ![Reframing The Adwa Victory As A Decolonizing Praxis – Discourse Around Colonization In The Ethiopian Context, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/02/1599px-ethiopian_mothers_with_babies.webp)

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February 4, 2020 — By Rode Molla

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Foucault, in his book, Discipline, and Punish, describes how the human body is

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### [Call For Papers – Special Issue On Walter Benjamin And Religion](/religioustheory/posts/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-walter-benjamin-and-religion/)

April 30, 2019 — By editors

What does Walter Benjamin’s work suggest about religion and the methods of studying it? This special issue of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Studies

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### [Jonathan Edwards And The Vegan Elect – An Unconventional Calvinist Reading, Part 1 (Tadd Ruetenik)](/religioustheory/posts/jonathan-edwards-and-the-vegan-elect-an-unconventional-calvinist-reading-part-1/)

April 23, 2019 — By Tadd Ruetenik

In 1895, when Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity School of Christianity, first became a vegetarian, she said that “the appetite left me without my even

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### [Inventing Afterlives – Review (Camille Grace Leon Angelo)](/religioustheory/posts/inventing-afterlives-review-camille-grace-leon-angelo/)

October 22, 2018 — By 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.

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### [Religion And Mental Health – The Therapuetic Value Of The Teachings of Jesus, Part 2 (Thomas Roberts and Delbert Hayden)](/religioustheory/posts/religion-and-mental-health-the-therapuetic-value-of-the-teachings-of-jesus-part-2-thomas-roberts-and-delbert-hayden/)

October 9, 2018 — By Thomas Roberts; 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

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### [Re-Envisioning Religious Studies As A Global Discipline – A Pre-AAR Symposium](/religioustheory/posts/re-envisioning-religious-studies-as-a-global-discipline-a-pre-aar-symposium/)

October 2, 2018 — By editors

The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Denver in conjunction with its partner faculty

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### [Religion And Mental Health – The Therapeutic Value Of The Teachings Of Jesus , Part 1 (Thomas Roberts And Delbert Hayden)](/religioustheory/posts/religion-and-mental-health-the-therapeutic-value-of-the-teachings-of-jesus-part-1-thomas-roberts-and-delbert-hayden/)

September 30, 2018 — By Thomas Roberts; 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

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### [Towards A New Comparative Methodology In Religious Studies (Kara Roberts)](/religioustheory/posts/towards-a-new-comparative-methodology-in-religious-studies-kara-roberts/)

September 23, 2018 — By 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

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                ![Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/09/dervish-ceremony.webp)

### [Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)](/religioustheory/posts/transmodern-sufism-or-stepping-with-levinas-on-the-footprints-of-a-speculative-sufism-not-re-framed-by-20th-century-orientalists-part-1-philipp-valentini/)

September 6, 2018 — By 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

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### [Review – Neurotheological Nuances (Joshua Canzona)](/religioustheory/posts/review-neurotheological-nuances-joshua-canzona/)

August 22, 2018 — By Joshua Canzona

Neurotheology: How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality. Newberg, Andrew. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. ISBN 9780231179041. Hardback

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                ![The Dangers Of Dealing With Derrida – Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate On The “Religious” Reading Of Deconstruction, Part 3 (Neal DeRoo)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/07/img_1464-1.webp)

### [The Dangers Of Dealing With Derrida – Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate On The “Religious” Reading Of Deconstruction, Part 3 (Neal DeRoo)](/religioustheory/posts/the-dangers-of-dealing-with-derrida-revisiting-the-caputo-hagglund-debate-on-the-religious-reading-of-deconstruction-part-3-neal-deroo/)

July 11, 2018 — By 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

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                ![The Dangers Of Dealing With Derrida – Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate On The “Religious” Reading Of Deconstruction, Part 1 (Neal DeRoo)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/06/jacques-derrida.webp)

### [The Dangers Of Dealing With Derrida – Revisiting the Caputo-Hägglund Debate On The “Religious” Reading Of Deconstruction, Part 1 (Neal DeRoo)](/religioustheory/posts/the-dangers-of-dealing-with-derrida-revisiting-the-caputo-hagglund-debate-on-the-religious-reading-of-deconstruction-part-1-neal-deroo/)

June 26, 2018 — By 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

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                ![Beyond Religious Ideas – The Legacy Of Max Weber In Critical Theory And Critical Religion (Joel Harrison)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/06/max-weber.webp)

### [Beyond Religious Ideas – The Legacy Of Max Weber In Critical Theory And Critical Religion (Joel Harrison)](/religioustheory/posts/beyond-religious-ideas-the-legacy-of-max-weber-in-critical-theory-and-critical-religion-joel-harrison/)

June 19, 2018 — By 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

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                ![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

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                ![Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part I (Kevin Lewis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/05/img_0921-1.webp)

### [Mischief, Idolatry, And The Demonic – Toward A Hermeneutic Of Play, Part I (Kevin Lewis)](/religioustheory/posts/mischief-idolatry-and-the-demonic-toward-a-hermeneutic-of-play-part-i-kevin-lewis/)

May 19, 2018 — By Kevin Lewis

Biblical hermeneutics, studied reflection upon interpretation of scriptural passages, has not remained static in method or approach over the centuries

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                ![Secularism And Its Discontents – On Charting Pathways With A Phenomenology Of Religion, Part 1 (Ludger Hagerdorn and Michael Staudigl)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/04/800px-michelangelo_moses-1.webp)

### [Secularism And Its Discontents – On Charting Pathways With A Phenomenology Of Religion, Part 1 (Ludger Hagerdorn and Michael Staudigl)](/religioustheory/posts/secularism-and-its-discontents-on-charting-pathways-with-a-phenomenology-of-religion-part-1-ludger-hagerdorn-and-michael-staudigl/)

April 21, 2018 — By Ludger Hagerdorn; Michael Staudigl

*The following is the introductory article for the Spring 2018 issue (Vol. 17, No. 2) of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights key

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                ![The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part II (Oleg Komkov)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/03/11932077953_0f5e07d6f2_b.webp)

### [The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part II (Oleg Komkov)](/religioustheory/posts/the-vertical-form-iconological-dimension-in-20th-century-russian-religious-aesthetics-and-literary-criticism-part-ii-oleg-komkov/)

March 31, 2018 — By Oleg Komkov

The following is the second part in a two-part installment. The first part can be found here. II. “Absolute Symbolism” of Christian Worldview: The Aesthetic

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### [The Vertical Form – The Iconological Dimension in 20th Century Russian Religious Aesthetics and Literary Criticism, Part I (Oleg Komkov)](/religioustheory/posts/the-vertical-form-iconological-dimension-in-20th-century-russian-religious-aesthetics-and-literary-criticism-part-i-oleg-komkov/)

March 21, 2018 — By Oleg Komkov

The following is the first part in a two-part installment. This article is an attempt to highlight and reflect on several interrelated issues that seem to be

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                ![New Religions in Brazil – A Game Between Relativism and Fundamentalism (Silas Guerriero)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/03/iskcon_temple_bhubaneswar_lord_jagannath_balabhadra_subhadra.webp)

### [New Religions in Brazil – A Game Between Relativism and Fundamentalism (Silas Guerriero)](/religioustheory/posts/new-religions-in-brazil-a-game-between-relativism-and-fundamentalism-silas-guerriero/)

March 10, 2018 — By Silas Guerriero

Speaking of new religious movements in Brazil implies, above all, in defining what we refer to when we speak of “new religions.” We have already had an

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                ![Review – An Uncritical Critique of Theism (Rebekah Gordon)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/03/jbcol.webp)

### [Review – An Uncritical Critique of Theism (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-an-uncritical-critique-of-theism-rebekah-gordon/)

March 7, 2018 — By Rebekah Gordon

Religion Within Reason. Cahn, Steven M. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. ISBN: 9780231181617. Paperback. 93 pages.** It is amazing that a book of less

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### [Call for Contributors – The Dialectic of Divine Presence and Absence](/religioustheory/posts/the-dialectic-of-divine-presence-and-absence-call-for-contributors-to-special-issue/)

February 14, 2018 — By editors

Since the philosopher Nietzsche announced the “death of God” over a century ago, the specter of divine absence has hovered over Western civilization It

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### [Looking For Reviewers](/religioustheory/posts/new-book-titles-looking-for-reviewers/)

January 2, 2018 — By editors

We are looking for authors to review the a variety books in different topic areas related to religious and cultural theory It highlights key arguments

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### [“Notations” – Call for Contributors](/religioustheory/posts/notations-the-european-refugee-crisis-and-more/)

January 1, 2018 — By editors

In addition to reviews and commentaries, the new JCRT feature “religious theory” ([jcrt.org](https://jcrt.org)/religioustheory), updated regularly, will publish...

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                ![The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 2 (Brigid Burke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/10/genrich_ippolitovich_semiradsky_-_roma_1889.webp)

### [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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                ![The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 1 (Brigid Burke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/10/afterlife.webp)

### [The Mythology of Afterlife Beliefs and Their Impact on Religious Conflict, Part 1 (Brigid Burke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-mythology-of-afterlife-beliefs-and-their-impact-on-religious-conflict-part-1-brigid-burke/)

November 1, 2017 — By Brigid Burke

The question of whether there is life after death, and what that life might be like, is probably one of religion’s oldest questions It highlights key arguments

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                ![Review—Whither Philosophy of Religion? (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/10/wordcloud.webp)

### [Review—Whither Philosophy of Religion? (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-whither-philosophy-of-religion-benjamin-steele-fisher/)

October 27, 2017 — By Benjamin Steele-Fisher

**Religion and European Philosophy: Key Thinkers from Kant to Zizek. Edited by Philip Goodchild and Hollis Phelps. New York: Routledge, 2017 It highlights

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                ![Slow Journalism? Ethnography as a Means of Understanding Religious Social Activism, Part 2 (James V. Spickard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/10/denali-national-park-1733313_1280-uncharted-territory.webp)

### [Slow Journalism? Ethnography as a Means of Understanding Religious Social Activism, Part 2 (James V. Spickard)](/religioustheory/posts/slow-journalism-ethnography-as-a-means-of-understanding-religious-social-activism-part-2-james-v-spickard/)

October 23, 2017 — By James V. Spickard

The following is a talk presented at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, and is the second installment of a two-part series

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### [Slow Journalism? Ethnography As A Means Of Understanding Religious Social Activism, Part 1 (James V. Spickard)](/religioustheory/posts/slow-journalism-ethnography-as-a-means-of-understanding-religious-social-activism-part-1-james-v-spickard/)

October 16, 2017 — By James V. Spickard

The following is a talk presented at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, and is the first installment of a two-part series

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                ![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

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                ![Religious Studies and Comparative Theology – An Appraisal (Joshua Samuel)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/10/pdr.webp)

### [Religious Studies and Comparative Theology – An Appraisal (Joshua Samuel)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-and-comparative-theology-an-appraisal-joshua-samuel/)

October 9, 2017 — By Joshua Samuel

The title “religious scholar,” it must be remembered, is a very ambiguous categorization. It could either mean those who are engaged in academic work in the

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                ![Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 2 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/images.webp)

### [Framing Religious Conflict and Violence – Insights from Historical Institutionalism, Part 2 (Vivek Swaroop Sharma)](/religioustheory/posts/framing-religious-conflict-and-violence-insights-from-historical-institutionalism-part-2-vivek-swaroop-sharma/)

September 22, 2017 — By Vivek Swaroop Sharma

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. There are two important qualifications to the following

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### [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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### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 3 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-3-raji-singh-soni/)

August 13, 2017 — By Raji Singh Soni

The following is the final installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here, the second one here. As Julia Reinhard Lupton argues It

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                ![Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 2 (Raji Singh Soni)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/08/the_sea.webp)

### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 2 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-w-h-audens-religious-and-aesthetic-states-part-2-raji-singh-soni/)

August 4, 2017 — By Raji Singh Soni

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. Used by Auden in concert with “limitation” to qualify

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                ![Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 1 (Raji Singh Soni)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/07/pda44.webp)

### [Traversing W.H. Auden’s Religious And Aesthetic States, Part 1 (Raji Singh Soni)](/religioustheory/posts/traversing-religious-and-aesthetic-states-in-w-h-audens-for-the-time-being-part-1-raji-singh-soni/)

July 28, 2017 — By Raji Singh Soni

The following is part one of an article that will be published in three successive installments. > TRINCULO Servant-monster! The folly of this island!

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                ![Review – Bahai Religion And Religious Cycles (Rebekah Gordon)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/06/churches-of-the-world.webp)

### [Review – Bahai Religion And Religious Cycles (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-bahai-religion-and-religious-cycles-rebekah-gordon/)

June 7, 2017 — By Rebekah Gordon

Sergeev, Mikhail. Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, and the Baha’i Faith. Amsterdam: Brill Rodopi, 2015. ISBN-10:9004300031. Paperback

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### [Religious Autonomy As Secularism’s Silent Partner (Darshan Datar)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-autonomy-as-secularisms-silent-partner-darshan-datar/)

May 31, 2017 — By Darshan Datar

Scholarship has noted that the genealogical trajectory of a state has consistently had an impact on the evolution of state-church relationships It highlights

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                ![Review – Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities (Dean Dettloff)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/05/img_1445.webp)

### [Review – Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities (Dean Dettloff)](/religioustheory/posts/review-ontic-flows-from-digital-humanities-to-posthumanities-dean-dettloff/)

May 25, 2017 — By Dean Dettloff

*Bernico, Matt, and Kölke, Manuela (Eds.). Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities. New York: Atropos Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 1940813085 It

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### [Speaking (Or Not Speaking) Of God – Call For Proposals](/religioustheory/posts/speaking-or-not-speaking-of-god-call-for-proposals2/)

May 3, 2017 — By editors

Where: University of Denver, Denver, Colorado Sponsors: Department of Religious Studies, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights key arguments

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                ![Review – The Metaphysics of Copresence in Beliso-De Jesùs’ Electric Santeria (Ryne Beddard)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/santeria-cover.webp)

### [Review – The Metaphysics of Copresence in Beliso-De Jesùs’ Electric Santeria (Ryne Beddard)](/religioustheory/posts/review-copresence-and-ontography-in-beliso-de-jesus-electric-santeria-ryne-beddard/)

March 17, 2017 — By Ryne Beddard

* Beliso-De Jesús, Aisha M. Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015 It highlights

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                ![Review – Theologies of the Boss (James Cochran)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/young-bruce.webp)

### [Review – Theologies of the Boss (James Cochran)](/religioustheory/posts/review/)

March 2, 2017 — By James Cochran

*Yadin-Israel, Azzan. The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen. Highland Park: Lingua Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 0692718516

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                ![Newest Titles For Review – Freud, Nussbaum, Angst, The Crucified God, Etc.](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/01/martha-nussbaum.webp)

### [Newest Titles For Review – Freud, Nussbaum, Angst, The Crucified God, Etc.](/religioustheory/posts/newest-titles-for-review-freud-nussbaum-angst-the-crucified-god-etc/)

January 27, 2017 — By editors

Religious Theory has just added new titles for which we are looking for reviewers (listed below). If you would like to review one of them, please send an email

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                ![Spinoza’s Theory of Religion – Stabilized Superstition (Ehud Benor)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/01/jewish-1159704_1920.webp)

### [Spinoza’s Theory of Religion – Stabilized Superstition (Ehud Benor)](/religioustheory/posts/spinozas-theory-of-religion-stabilized-superstition-ehud-benor/)

January 13, 2017 — By Ehud Benor

The best interpretations of Spinoza’s philosophy would lead us to believe that, for Spinoza, religion is superstition. Henry Allison’s account is an excellent

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                ![Review – New Trends In The Theory And Methods For Studying Religion (David Kim)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/clock.webp)

### [Review – New Trends In The Theory And Methods For Studying Religion (David Kim)](/religioustheory/posts/review-new-trends-in-the-theory-and-methods-for-studying-religion-david-kim/)

December 29, 2016 — By David Kim

Kovács, Ábrahám, and James L. Cox, Editors. New Trends and Recurring Issues in the Study of Religion: Context and Overview. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2014

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                ![From Heathen to Sub-Human – A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism, Part 2 (Oludamini Ogunnaike)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/09/cat11.webp)

### [From Heathen to Sub-Human – A Genealogy of the Influence of the Decline of Religion on the Rise of Modern Racism, Part 2 (Oludamini Ogunnaike)](/religioustheory/posts/from-heathen-to-sub-human-a-genealogy-of-the-influence-of-the-decline-of-religion-on-the-rise-of-modern-racism-part-2-oludamini-ogunnaike/)

September 27, 2016 — By Oludamini Ogunnaike

The following is the second part of an article in three installments that initially appeared in July 2016 in Open Theology 2:2016 785-203 It highlights

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                ![Review – Aaron Hughes’ ‘Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity’ (Daniel Tutt)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/09/hajj.webp)

### [Review – Aaron Hughes’ ‘Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity’ (Daniel Tutt)](/religioustheory/posts/exposing-the-pitfalls-of-constructive-theology-on-the-state-of-islamic-studies-today-daniel-tutt/)

September 22, 2016 — By Daniel Tutt

*Hughes, Aaron. Islam and the Tyranny of Authenticity: An Inquiry into Disciplinary Apologetics and Self-Deception. London: Equinox Publishing, 2016 It

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                ![Review – Love’s Unfortunate Presence between Faith and Belief (Daniel Boscaljon)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/08/phenomenological-psychology.webp)

### [Review – Love’s Unfortunate Presence between Faith and Belief (Daniel Boscaljon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-loves-unfortunate-presence-between-faith-and-belief-daniel-boscaljon/)

August 18, 2016 — By Daniel Boscaljon

*Schrijvers, Joeri. Between Faith and Belief: Toward a Contemporary Phenomenology of Religious Life (SUNY Series in Theology and Continental Thought) It

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                ![Review – Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America (Roger Green)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/07/psychedelic-therapy.webp)

### [Review – Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/review-altered-states-buddhism-and-psychedelic-spirituality-in-america/)

July 28, 2016 — By Roger K. Green

* Osto, Douglas. Altered States: Buddhism and Psychedelic Spirituality in America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016 It highlights key arguments

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                ![Review – Digital Technologies and Religion in the Postmodern Era (Albert McClure)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/07/internet-handshake.webp)

### [Review – Digital Technologies and Religion in the Postmodern Era (Albert McClure)](/religioustheory/posts/review-digital-technologies-and-religion-in-the-postmodern-era/)

July 14, 2016 — By Albert McClure

*Han, Sam. Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the Sacred in a Post-Secular Modernity. Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society 19 142 pages.

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                ![Review – The Search For Transcendence In The “Material Phenomenology” of David Foster Wallace (Jeff Appel)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/07/davidfosterwallace1.webp)

### [Review – The Search For Transcendence In The “Material Phenomenology” of David Foster Wallace (Jeff Appel)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-search-for-transcendence-in-the-material-phenomenology-of-david-foster-wallace/)

July 7, 2016 — By Jeff Appel

*Miller, Adam S. The Gospel According to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in an Age of Distraction. New York: Bloomsburg Academic, 2016 It highlights

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                ![Review – The Evolution of the Religious Factor in Fantasy Role-Playing Games (Jeffrey Scholes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/07/dragon-slayer.webp)

### [Review – The Evolution of the Religious Factor in Fantasy Role-Playing Games (Jeffrey Scholes)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-evolution-of-the-religious-factor-in-fantasy-role-playing-games/)

July 2, 2016 — By Jeffrey Scholes

*Laycock, Joseph P. Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds ISBN-10: 0520284925. It

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                ![Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 3 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/06/1418.webp)

### [Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 3 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajrayana-buddhism-part-3/)

June 21, 2016 — By Padraic Fitzgerald

The following is the third and final 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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                ![Review – Donovan Schaefer’s Call For a Materialist Turn In Religious Theory (Jonathan Russell)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/06/busy-fall.webp)

### [Review – Donovan Schaefer’s Call For a Materialist Turn In Religious Theory (Jonathan Russell)](/religioustheory/posts/review-donovan-schaefers-call-for-a-materialist-turn-in-religious-theory/)

June 3, 2016 — By Jonathan Russell

*Schaefer, Donovan O. Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN 10: 978-0-8223-5982-1, 10: It highlights

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                ![More Sympathy for the Devil, or The State of Satan in The Age of Obama and Trump](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/03/satan-comedy.gif)

### [More Sympathy for the Devil, or The State of Satan in The Age of Obama and Trump](/religioustheory/posts/more-sympathy-for-the-devil-or-the-state-of-satan-in-the-age-of-obama-and-trump/)

May 1, 2016 — By editors

Fifty years ago this weekend in the year 1966, according to lore and legend, San Francisco showman, musician, and self-professed huckster Howard Stanton Levey

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                ![Review – Jean-Pierre Couture Brings To Life The Ongoing Oeuvre of Peter Sloterdijk](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/04/open_no09_djong_02_walkingcity.webp)

### [Review – Jean-Pierre Couture Brings To Life The Ongoing Oeuvre of Peter Sloterdijk](/religioustheory/posts/review-jean-pierre-couture-brings-to-life-for-first-time-the-entire-works-of-sloterdijk/)

April 15, 2016 — By editors

*Couture, Jean-Pierre. Sloterdijk (Key Contemporary Thinkers). Boston: Polity, 2015. 208 pages. ISBN-10: 0745663818. Hardback, paperback, e-book, 208 pages

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                ![Spiritual Erotics, Part 3 – Eros, Ecstasy, and the Pentecostal Experience](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/04/catharsis.webp)

### [Spiritual Erotics, Part 3 – Eros, Ecstasy, and the Pentecostal Experience](/religioustheory/posts/spiritual-erotics-part-3-eros-ecstasy-and-the-pentecostal-experience/)

April 13, 2016 — By editors

In the first installment of this three-part book preview of my forthcoming work on machismo in Latino culture I explored the role of the new, and “hot”

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                ![Renegade Hinduism Scholar Featured In Norton’s Anthology of World Religions](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/04/ilaiah.webp)

### [Renegade Hinduism Scholar Featured In Norton’s Anthology of World Religions](/religioustheory/posts/renegade-hinduism-scholar-featured-in-nortons-anthology-of-world-religions/)

April 8, 2016 — By editors

The just-released, multi-volume Norton Anthology of World Religions is a major project of substance undertaken by a group of world-renowned scholars in

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                ![Spiritual Erotics, Part 2 – The Nature and History of Machismo and Its Feminine Counterpart As “Marianismo”](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/04/749_20_2.webp)

### [Spiritual Erotics, Part 2 – The Nature and History of Machismo and Its Feminine Counterpart As “Marianismo”](/religioustheory/posts/spiritual-erotics-part-2-the-nature-and-history-of-machismo-and-its-feminine-counterpart-as-marianismo/)

April 6, 2016 — By editors

From time to time Religious Theory (RT) invites well-known academic authors to outline current book projects that have not yet been published It highlights

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                ![Spiritual Erotics, Part 1 – Affect Theory and the Transformation of Machismo Among Latino Pentecostal Men](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/03/20120503nw1179.webp)

### [Spiritual Erotics, Part 1 – Affect Theory and the Transformation of Machismo Among Latino Pentecostal Men](/religioustheory/posts/spiritual-erotics-affect-theory-and-the-transformation-of-machismo-among-latino-pentecostal-men-part-1/)

March 30, 2016 — By editors

From time to time Religious Theory (RT) invites well-known academic authors to outline current book projects that have not yet been published S. It highlights

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                ![Review Essay – Peter Sloterdijk on Social Bonds, Freedom, and Religion](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/03/peter-sloterdijk.webp)

### [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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                ![NOTATIONS – The “Unacculturable” – Refugee Flux Spurs Crisis of European Belief](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/03/syrian-refugees.webp)

### [NOTATIONS – The “Unacculturable” – Refugee Flux Spurs Crisis of European Belief](/religioustheory/posts/notations-the-unacculturable-refugee-flux-spurs-crisis-of-european-belief/)

March 6, 2016 — By editors

This Notations piece analyzes how refugee discourse destabilizes European self-understanding, linking cultural panic, theological residue, and political

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                ![NOTATIONS – Agamben’s Homo Sacer, Refugees, and the Crisis of European Values](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/03/refugee_march_hungary_2015-09-04_02.webp)

### [NOTATIONS – Agamben’s Homo Sacer, Refugees, and the Crisis of European Values](/religioustheory/posts/notations-agambens-homo-sacer-refugees-and-the-crisis-of-european-values/)

March 3, 2016 — By editors

This Notations essay reads refugee politics through Agamben's Homo Sacer, examining sovereignty, exception, and the moral crisis revealed by Europe's border

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                ![The Secularizing Ethos and the End of Biblical Authority – How Today’s Evangelicals Abandoned Evangelicalism](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/03/illustrations_to_dantes_divine_comedy_object_44_butlin_812-42_the_baffled_devils_fighting.webp)

### [The Secularizing Ethos and the End of Biblical Authority – How Today’s Evangelicals Abandoned Evangelicalism](/religioustheory/posts/the-secularizing-ethos-and-the-end-of-biblical-authority-how-todays-evangelicals-abandoned-evangelicalism/)

March 2, 2016 — By editors

So reads the title of a recent article in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The author, Jim Hinch, begins his piece with the conversion story of A. J J.

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                ![Religious Theory – A New Review, Commentary, and Conversations Feature of JCRT](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/02/adam-1.webp)

### [Religious Theory – A New Review, Commentary, and Conversations Feature of JCRT](/religioustheory/posts/religious-theory-a-new-review-commentary-and-conversations-feature-of-jcrt/)

February 24, 2016 — By editors

Religious Theory is the new commentary, review, and conversation blog for The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights key arguments and

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