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It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [A Tainted Trophy And The Framing Of White Supremacy In America, Part 1 (Tink Tinker)](/religioustheory/posts/a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-1-tink-tinker/) Tink Tinker The following is the first of a three-part series. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal It highlights key arguments View Article ### [Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 1 (Wendy Felese)](/religioustheory/posts/reorientation-in-the-field-why-religion-matters-part-1-wendy-felese/) Wendy Felese The following is the first of a two-part series. It was originally published at a 2019 conference in Athens, Greece.1 When teaching classes like World Religions View Article ### [Christianity As A New Humanism – Historical, Theological, And Philosophical Reflections On The Bible, Hegel, And Robert Musil, Part 4 (Kurt Appel)](/religioustheory/posts/christianity-as-a-new-humanism/) Kurt Appel View Article ### [“Damn It, He’s An Injun!” Christian Murder, Colonial Wealth, And Tanned Human Skin, Part 2 (Tink Tinker, wazhazhe udsethe)](/religioustheory/posts/damn-it-hes-an-injun-christian-murder-colonial-wealth-and-tanned-human-skin-part-2-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe/) Tink Tinker The following is the second of a three-part series. The first installation can be found here. The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in View Article ### [God and History, Lecture 5 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-history-lecture-5-johannes-zachhuber/) Johannes Zachhuber The following is the fifth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The existentialist approach you heard about last week View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Review – Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil: Negative Reactions to the Jewish Pre- and Post-Holocaust (Madison Tarleton)](/religioustheory/posts/review-hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil-negative-reactions-to-jewish-people-pre-and-post-holocaust-madison-tarleton/) Madison Tarleton Antisemitism Before and Since the Holocaust: Altered Contexts and Recent Perspectives. Basingstoke United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 It highlights View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 2 (Ronald Beiner)](/religioustheory/posts/benjamins-concept-of-history-as-a-source-of-arendts-idea-of-judgment-part-2-ronald-beiner/) Ronald Beiner Part 2 extends the Benjamin-Arendt comparison by testing judgment against crisis and memory, clarifying how historical rupture reshapes political discernment View Article ### [Benjamin’s Concept of History As A Source of Arendt’s Idea of Judgment – Part 1 (Ronald Beiner)](/religioustheory/posts/benjamins-concept-of-history-as-a-source-of-arendts-idea-of-judgment-ronald-beiner/) Ronald Beiner Part 1 traces how Walter Benjamin's theses on history inform Hannah Arendt's account of judgment, emphasizing temporality, critique, and political The View Article ### [Review – Agamben’s Political Reading of the Trial of Jesus (Ryne Beddard)](/religioustheory/posts/review-agambens-political-reading-of-the-trial-of-jesus/) Ryne Beddard *Agamben, Giorgio. Pilate and Jesus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). Translated by Adam Kotsko. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015 It highlights View Article --- See [all tags](/tags). [The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT)](https://jcrt.org) is an online, peer-reviewed, academic publication published by [The Whitestone Foundation](http://thewhitestonefoundation.org/), a 501c3 corporation located in Boulder, Colorado. ISSN 1530-5228. Articles are open access under a [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) license; authors retain copyright. Indexed by [EBSCO](https://www.ebsco.com/). Listed with [Duotrope](https://duotrope.com/magazine/journal-cultural-religious-theory-20464?ref=lst-7vbKB-7r3u0g8&pc=L-7VBKB). Website © The Whitestone Foundation dba The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 1999-2026. 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