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                ![Religious Faith In Pursuit of Environmental Justice (Chris Durante)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/09/2018-09-06_riseclimate-421.webp)

### [Religious Faith In Pursuit of Environmental Justice (Chris Durante)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-faith-in-pursuit-of-environmental-justice-chris-durante/)

July 25, 2024 — By J.C. Smith

In recent years, the world’s religions, including the Abrahamic faiths as well as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and various indigenous forms of spirituality, have

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                ![The Environmental Ethics of Pope Francis – Parsing Key Terms and Claims In Laudato Si’ (Thomas Massaro, S.J.)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2024/09/15448438025_31e8467aa3_b.webp)

### [The Environmental Ethics of Pope Francis – Parsing Key Terms and Claims In Laudato Si’ (Thomas Massaro, S.J.)](/religioustheory/posts/the-environmental-ethics-of-pope-francis-parsing-key-terms-and-claims-in-laudato-si-thomas-massaro-s-j/)

April 17, 2024 — By Thomas Massaro

On October 4, 2023, Pope Francis published the apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum (“Praise God”), an 8000-word document advocating for urgent action to counter

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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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                ![The Re-Enchantment Of Bodies – The Transformative Power Of Charismatic Healings, Part 1 (Anna Magnasco)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/12/st_peter_and_st_john_healing_the_cripple_1841_wellcome_l0000122-1210x642.webp)

### [The Re-Enchantment Of Bodies – The Transformative Power Of Charismatic Healings, Part 1 (Anna Magnasco)](/religioustheory/posts/the-re-enchantment-of-bodies-the-transformative-power-of-charismatic-healings-part-1-anna-magnasco/)

November 28, 2023 — By Anna-Maria Magnasco

Part 1 investigates charismatic healing as embodied practice, arguing that affect, ritual, and perception can reconfigure modern assumptions about agency and

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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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                ![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

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                ![Body Erotic –  John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 1 (Kieryn Wurts)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/05/homosexuality_in_khajuraho_sculpture.webp)

### [Body Erotic – John Boswell’s History Of Eurochristian Sexuality And The Case For Transcendental Somatics, Part 1 (Kieryn Wurts)](/religioustheory/posts/body-erotic-john-boswells-history-of-eurochristian-sexuality-and-the-case-for-transcendental-somatics-part-1-kieryn-wurts/)

April 24, 2023 — By Kieryn E. Wurts

John Boswell (1947-94) was a Yale philologist who published two major studies betweeen 1980 and 1994 which, considered together, constitute an extended and

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                ![Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 3 (Joshua Hall)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/04/screenshot-2023-04-09-at-10-45-25-pm.webp)

### [Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 3 (Joshua Hall)](/religioustheory/posts/introducing-spirit-dance-social-justice-and-reconstructed-spiritual-practices-part-3-joshua-hall/)

April 10, 2023 — By Joshua M. Hall

The following is the last of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. Understandable fears to the contrary notwithstanding, a cult, by

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                ![Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 2 (Joshua Hall)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/04/800px-mongol_shaman_just_before_rituals.webp)

### [Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 2 (Joshua Hall)](/religioustheory/posts/introducing-spirit-dance-social-justice-and-reconstructed-spiritual-practices-part-2-joshua-hall/)

March 31, 2023 — By Joshua M. Hall

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. As to the purpose of this spirit dancing, Kopenawa constantly emphasizes that

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                ![Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 1 (Joshua Hall)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2023/04/800px-volute_krater_wedding_purifying_b_lucania_roccanova_painter_350-325_bc_prague_nm-h10_4759_151621.webp)

### [Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 1 (Joshua Hall)](/religioustheory/posts/introducing-spirit-dance-social-justice-and-reconstructed-spiritual-practices-joshua-hall/)

March 16, 2023 — By Joshua M. Hall

This project was provoked by the almost nonexistent pushback from the Democratic liberal establishment to the (2020) exoneration of Kyle Rittenhouse, despite

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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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                ![From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2022/05/dassanech_girl_omerate_ethiopia_21073880372-1.webp)

### [From Holistic To In-Between Theology – The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/from-holistic-to-in-between-theology-the-ethiopian-evangelical-church-mekane-yesus-part-2-rode-molla/)

April 30, 2022 — By Rode Molla

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Tumsa, as a theologian, focused on social justice and the hermeneutical

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                ![Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 1 (John Cuda)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/09/haley-lawrence-ewyga88k0yg-unsplash-1.webp)

### [Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 1 (John Cuda)](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths/)

October 4, 2021 — By John Cuda

The following is the first of a three-part series. In this article I seek to analyze spiritual phenomena using contemporary mythological and pop-cultural

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                ![Let’s Get Real About Race – Two Very Timely Upcoming Online Seminars (Announcement)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/08/race.webp)

### [Let’s Get Real About Race – Two Very Timely Upcoming Online Seminars (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/lets-get-real-about-race-two-very-timely-upcoming-online-seminars-announcement/)

August 23, 2021 — By editors

It’s time to get real when we talk these days about race and racism. Ever since the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in the late spring of 2020 at the

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                ![Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity in Brazil –  Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 1 (Vinicius Marinho)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/08/menina_da_etnia_terena-1.webp)

### [Thomas Aquinas’s Body-Soul Dualism And The Hierarchy Of Human Dignity in Brazil – Theological Origins Of A Nation’s Self-Understanding, Part 1 (Vinicius Marinho)](/religioustheory/posts/thomas-aquinass-body-soul-dualism-and-the-hierarchy-of-human-dignity-in-brazil-theological-origins-of-a-nations-hierarchical-self-understanding-part-1-vinicius-marinho/)

August 3, 2021 — By Vinicius Marinho

“Manda quem pode, obedece quem tem juízo” is an old Brazilian proverb. It synthetizes, in two clauses, the dominant value of the Brazilian political culture:

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                ![Difficult Discussions – Christian Evangelicalism And Critical Race Theory (Announcement)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/07/dd-l.webp)

### [Difficult Discussions – Christian Evangelicalism And Critical Race Theory (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/difficult-discussions-christian-evangelicalism-and-critical-race-theory-announcement/)

July 26, 2021 — By editors

When: Thursday, September 23, 2021, 10 am-12 pm (Mountain Daylight Time) Register for online seminar: It highlights key arguments and implications for

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                ![Truth And Irony –  Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 1 (Florian Klug)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/07/screen-shot-2021-07-14-at-11-56-23-am.webp)

### [Truth And Irony – Beyond Binary Patterns In Theological Reasoning, Part 1 (Florian Klug)](/religioustheory/posts/truth-and-irony-beyond-binary-patterns-in-theological-reasoning-part-1-florian-klug/)

June 28, 2021 — By Florian Klug

The following is the first of a three-part series. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

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                ![Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 2 (Wendy Felese)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2021/03/sikoslingmuit_eskimo_woman-_southern_baffin_island-_copper-plate_engraving_17459827988.webp)

### [Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 2 (Wendy Felese)](/religioustheory/posts/reorientation-in-the-field-why-religion-matters-part-2-wendy-felese/)

March 29, 2021 — By Wendy Felese

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The article was first given at a conference in 2019 in Athens, Greece (2019).

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                ![Antinomian Flesh, Part 1 (David Kline)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/11/1600px-jones_point_park_-_boundary_markers_along_the_path.webp)

### [Antinomian Flesh, Part 1 (David Kline)](/religioustheory/posts/antinomian-flesh-part-1-david-kline/)

October 19, 2020 — By David Kline

In this essay I explore the idea of what I call an “antinomian flesh.” Looking to the concept of nomos theorized by sociologists, political and legal theorists

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                ![Longing For An Impossible Past – Derrida’s Of Grammatology And The Coronavirus As The Inauguration Of An Age Of Writing, Part 1 (Jared Lacy)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/06/hieroglyphics_in_an_egyptian_temple.webp)

### [Longing For An Impossible Past – Derrida’s Of Grammatology And The Coronavirus As The Inauguration Of An Age Of Writing, Part 1 (Jared Lacy)](/religioustheory/posts/longing-for-an-impossible-past-derridas-of-grammatology-and-the-coronavirus-as-the-inauguration-of-an-age-of-writing-part-1-jared-lacy/)

June 17, 2020 — By Jared Lacy

As we witness the aftermath of the initial responses to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic — the failures and successes of the various shelter-in-place orders and a

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                ![The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 3 (Paul Maltby)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2020/03/apocalypse-albert_goodwin.webp)

### [The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 3 (Paul Maltby)](/religioustheory/posts/the-hollow-christians-of-end-times-fiction-part-3-paul-maltby/)

March 3, 2020 — By Paul Maltby

The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. End Times fiction must be distinguished from other literary

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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)

### [Reframing The Adwa Victory As A Decolonizing Praxis – Discourse Around Colonization In The Ethiopian Context, Part 2 (Rode Molla)](/religioustheory/posts/reframing-the-adwa-victory-as-a-decolonizing-praxis-discourse-around-colonization-in-the-ethiopian-context-part-2-rode-molla/)

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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                ![“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

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                ![Religion And Mental Health – The Therapuetic Value Of The Teachings of Jesus, Part 2 (Thomas Roberts and Delbert Hayden)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/10/entry_of_jesus.webp)

### [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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                ![Religion And Mental Health – The Therapeutic Value Of The Teachings Of Jesus , Part 1 (Thomas Roberts And Delbert Hayden)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2018/10/hb_58-87-1.webp)

### [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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                ![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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                ![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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                ![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)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/10/1532494-shiva-and-parvati-on-bull-images-sculptures-on-hindu-temple-gopura-tower-menakshi-temple-madurai-tamil-nadu-india.webp)

### [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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                ![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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                ![The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/07/blake_jacobsladder.webp)

### [The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 3 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-kingdom-the-power-the-glory-and-the-tawdry-media-and-the-undoing-of-the-demos-part-3-carl-raschke/)

July 19, 2017 — By Carl A. Raschke

This article is the last of three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk

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                ![The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/07/c3991bb2cfd9febacdde5120616f152a.webp)

### [The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-kingdom-the-power-the-glory-and-the-tawdry-media-and-the-undoing-of-the-demos-part-2-carl-raschke/)

July 12, 2017 — By Carl A. Raschke

This article is the second of three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk

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                ![Philosophical Anthropology or Philosophy of Praxis? Axel Honneth and Andrew Feenberg on Lukács’ Theory of Reification (Konstantinos Kavoulakos)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/03/lukacs-and-woman.webp)

### [Philosophical Anthropology or Philosophy of Praxis? Axel Honneth and Andrew Feenberg on Lukács’ Theory of Reification (Konstantinos Kavoulakos)](/religioustheory/posts/philosophical-anthropology-or-philosophy-of-praxis-axel-honneth-and-andrew-feenberg-on-lukacs-theory-of-reification-konstantinos-kavoulakos/)

March 15, 2017 — By Konstantinos Kavoulakos

Axel Honneth’s Reification. A New Look at an Old Idea (2008) and Andrew Feenberg’s Philosophy of Praxis (2014) represent two recent publications, which give a

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                ![Review – Neoliberalsm Is Nowhere – Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos (Isaiah Dylan Ellis)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2017/02/charles_hope-thatcher_tina.webp)

### [Review – Neoliberalsm Is Nowhere – Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos (Isaiah Dylan Ellis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-neoliberalismisnowhere-wendy-browns-undoing-the-demos-isaiah/)

February 16, 2017 — By Isaiah Dylan Ellis

* Brown, Wendy. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York: Zone Books, 2015. ISBN-10: 1935408534. Hardcover Hardcover. It highlights

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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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                ![Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 3 (Daniel Rhodes)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/12/img_0632.webp)

### [Time Emptied And Time Renewed – The Dominion Of Capital And A Theo-Politics Of Contretemps, Part 3 (Daniel Rhodes)](/religioustheory/posts/time-emptied-and-time-renewed-the-dominion-of-capital-and-a-theo-politics-of-contretemps-part-3-daniel-rhodes/)

December 12, 2016 — By Daniel Rhodes

The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The link to the first portion can be found here. The link to the second is here It highlights

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                ![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

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                ![Review – Of Politics and Motion (Joshua Lawrence)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/09/migrant-boat.webp)

### [Review – Of Politics and Motion (Joshua Lawrence)](/religioustheory/posts/review-of-politics-and-motion-joshua-lawrence/)

September 8, 2016 — By Joshua Lawrence

* Nail, Thomas. The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0804796580. 312 pages.* If the 21st century is indeed the century

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### [Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 1 (Daniel Tutt)](/religioustheory/posts/love-psychoanalysis-and-leftist-political-ontology-part-1-daniel-tutt/)

September 5, 2016 — By Daniel Tutt

The following is the first installment of a two-part article by Daniel Tutt entitled “Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology.” It has been

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                ![A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/08/debt-slave.webp)

### [A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/a-preface-to-the-genealogy-of-neoliberalism-part-2-carl-raschke/)

August 29, 2016 — By Carl A. Raschke

The following is the second installment of a lecture delivered to the faculty and students of the Research Platform on Religion and Transformation from the

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                ![Review – L.L. Welborn’s Synthesis of New Testament Scholarship and Critical Theory’s Recent Interest in the Apostle Paul (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/08/487px-caravaggio_-_conversione_di_san_paolo_odescalchi.webp)

### [Review – L.L. Welborn’s Synthesis of New Testament Scholarship and Critical Theory’s Recent Interest in the Apostle Paul (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-l-l-welborns-synthesis-of-new-testament-scholarship-and-critical-theorys-recent-interest-in-the-apostle-paul-benjamin-steele-fisher/)

August 25, 2016 — By Benjamin Steele-Fisher

*Welborn, Larry L. Paul’s Summons to Messianic Life: Political Theology and the Coming Awakening (Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and

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                ![A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/08/malabon-city.webp)

### [A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/a-preface-to-the-genealogy-of-neoliberalism-part-1-carl-raschke/)

August 22, 2016 — By Carl A. Raschke

The following is the first installment of a lecture delivered to the faculty and students of the Research Platform on Religion and Transformation from the

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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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                ![What Is A Dispositif? – Part 1 (Gregg Lambert)](https://files.jcrt.org/images/2016/07/682px-thumbnail.webp)

### [What Is A Dispositif? – Part 1 (Gregg Lambert)](/religioustheory/posts/what-is-a-dispositif-part-1/)

July 11, 2016 — By Gregg Lambert

The following article by internationally known theory scholar Gregg Lambert is the first of a two-part series. The concept of “dispositif” is best known as a

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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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                ![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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