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The first can be found here. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and View Article ### [The Unbroken Middle: Overcoming The Empty Sacrifices Of Modernity With Gillian Rose And Paul, Part 2 (Michael C. Raubach)](/religioustheory/posts/the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-part-2-michael-c-raubach/) Michael C. Raubach The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here Is it not true, though, that many individuals of different races, creeds, and View Article ### [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/) Andrew J. Ball Though Kierkegaard is typically considered to be the consummate philosopher of the single individual, his critique of secular modernity and institutional View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Foucault’s Disciplinary Society And The Community Rule Of Qumran (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/foucaults-disciplinary-society-and-the-community-rule-of-qumran-rebekah-gordon/) Rebekah Gordon In his 1975 work Discipline and Punish, Michel Foucault uses the lens of prison and society to examine the ways in which power structures act upon the View Article ### [Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 2 (Jodi Dean)](/religioustheory/posts/collective-desire-and-the-pathology-of-the-individual-part-2-jodi-dean/) Jodi Dean The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment was published on October 10 and can be accessed here It highlights View Article ### [Collective Desire and the Pathology of the Individual, Part 1 (Jodi Dean)](/religioustheory/posts/collective-desire-and-the-pathology-of-the-individual-jodi-dean/) Jodi Dean An interesting strand of contemporary theory designates the specificity of capitalism with the qualifier “cognitive.” I do not write under this term, although I View Article ### [Force in Religious Thought – Carl Raschke and Victoria Kahn in Dialogue, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/force-in-religious-thought-carl-raschke-and-victoria-kahn-in-dialogue-part-2/) Roger K. Green The following is the second of a three-part series. The first part was published on May 31, 2016. It is especially significant that Heidegger’s attention to the View Article ### [Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 2 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajrayana-buddhism-part-2/) Padraic Fitzgerald The following is the second installment in a three-part series. The first installment was published on May 27, 2016 and can be found here It highlights View Article ### [Biopolitics and Vajrayana Buddhism, Part 1 (Padraic Fitzgerald)](/religioustheory/posts/biopolitics-and-vajranayana-buddhism-part-1/) Padraic Fitzgerald Biopolitics, as Michel Foucault argued, views populations through an economic lens, as capital to be preserved and multiplied to keep the nation or tradition View Article --- See [all tags](/tags). 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