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She has traveled to Bali and India on different occasions to participate in yoga View Article ### [Conference on Religion and Bioethics – Call for Proposals](/religioustheory/posts/conference-on-religion-and-bioethics-call-for-proposals/) editors This call for proposals frames a conference on religion and bioethics, inviting interdisciplinary work on ethics, theology, policy, and emerging The argument View Article ### [Sikh Environmental Ethics-Theory and Praxis Part 1 (Harpreet Kaur)](/religioustheory/posts/sikh-environmental-ethics-theory-and-praxis-part-1-harpreet-kaur/) Harpreet Kaur Eco-philosophy, or ecosophy, offers insight into the relationship of living beings with their environment. The intersection of faith and eco-philosophy is known View Article ### [Metaphysical Protestantism-A Comparative Literary Ecology (Zane Johnson)](/religioustheory/posts/metaphysical-protestantism-a-comparative-literary-ecology-zane-johnson/) 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 View Article ### [Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 3 (Nirvikar Singh)](/religioustheory/posts/sikhs-as-subalterns-voice-inequality-and-power-part-3-nirvikar-singh/) 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 View Article ### [Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 2 (Nirvikar Singh)](/religioustheory/posts/sikhs-as-subalterns-voice-inequality-and-power-part-2-nirvikar-singh/) Nirvikar Singh The following is the second installment of a three part series. The first can be found here. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue View Article ### [The Sacred As Bordering Practice, Part 2 (Anna-Maria Edlinger)](/religioustheory/posts/the-sacred-as-bordering-practice-part-2-anna-maria-edlinger/) Anna-Maria Edlinger The following is the second of a two-part series. The first portion can be found here. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and View Article ### [The Sacred As Bordering Practice, Part 1 (Anna-Maria Edlinger)](/religioustheory/posts/the-sacred-as-bordering-practice-part-1-anna-maria-edlinger/) Anna-Maria Edlinger Part 1 theorizes the sacred as bordering practice, showing how ritual and discourse draw limits, authorize belonging, and organize contested social and View Article ### [George Batailles On Ethnographic Surrealism And “The Limits Of The Useful” – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)](/religioustheory/posts/george-batailles-on-the-limits-of-the-useful/) Matt Waggoner Georges Bataille, The Limit of the Useful. Translated and edited by Corey Austin Knudson and Tomas Elliott. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2022. Hardback. 360 pages View Article ### [Evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, And The Quotidian Academic Terror Of “Christian Nationalism”](/religioustheory/posts/evangelicalism-pentecostalism-and-the-quotidian-academic-terror-of-christian-nationalism/) 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? View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Religious Studies As The “State Religion” Of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-as-the-state-religion-of-neoliberalism-carl-raschke/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Orientalism, Ontology, And Orientation – A Muslim Perspective On Charles H. Long, Part 2 (Mehnaz Afridi)](/religioustheory/posts/orientalism-ontology-and-orientation-a-muslim-perspective-on-charles-h-long-part-2-mehnaz-afridi/) Mehnaz Afridi The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The full article is published in the spring 2022 issue of the Journal for View Article ### [Orientalism, Ontology, And Orientation – A Muslim Perspective On Charles H. Long, Part 1 (Mehnaz Afridi)](/religioustheory/posts/orientalism-ontology-and-orientation/) 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 View Article ### [The Legacy Of Charles H. Long – Resisting and Short-Circuiting the Discourses Of Exclusion In The Theory And Practice Of Administration (Victor E. Taylor)](/religioustheory/posts/the-legacy-of-charles-h-long-resisting-and-short-circuiting-the-discourses-of-exclusion-in-the-theory-and-practice-of-administration-victor-e-taylor/) Victor Taylor The following essay introduces the upcoming volume of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory featuring reflections on the work of renowned religious View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 2 (Jake Sirota)](/religioustheory/posts/geschlecht-iii-authentic-faith-religion-and-politics-in-derridas-readings-of-heideggers-geist-part-2-jake-sirota/) Jake S. Sirota The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. At this point Derrida’s appraisal of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics View Article ### [Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 1 (Jake Sirota)](/religioustheory/posts/geschlecht-iii-authentic-faith-religion-and-politics-in-derridas-readings-of-heideggers-geist-part-1-jake-sirota/) Jake S. Sirota Jacques Derrida’s prolonged and intimate proximity to the thought of Martin Heidegger has played a significant role in the understanding and debate of Derrida’s View Article ### [Locating The Oceanic In Sylvia Wynter’s “Demonic Ground”, Part 2 (Justine M. Bakker)](/religioustheory/posts/locating-the-oceanic-in-sylvia-wynters-demonic-ground-part-2-justine-m-bakker/) Justine M. Bakker Part 2 advances the oceanic reading of Wynter by detailing method and stakes, relating demonic ground to coloniality, black study, and experimental theoretical View Article ### [Locating The Oceanic in Sylvia Wynter’s “Demonic Ground”, Part 1 (Justine M. Bakker)](/religioustheory/posts/locating-yhe-oceanic-in-sylvia-wynters-demonic-ground/) Justine M. Bakker Part 1 introduces an oceanic reading of Sylvia Wynter's “Demonic Ground,” developing the conceptual frame and tracing how embodiment, race, and poetics View Article ### [Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 2 (John Cuda)](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths-part-2-john-cuda/) John Cuda The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Symbolically, the idea of going beyond the edge of the ordinary world to View Article ### [Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 1 (John Cuda)](/religioustheory/posts/entheogens-spirituality-and-modern-myths/) 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 View Article ### [“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/) 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 View Article ### [Critical Conversations 10 – “Tenderness,” Or Putting Neoliberalism On The Analyst’s Couch (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-10-tenderness-or-putting-neoliberalism-on-the-analysts-couch-announcement/) editors When: Tuesday, June 29, 10am Mountain Standard Time How: Zoom. By Advance Registration. Please register at the following link below It highlights key arguments View Article ### [Critical Conversations 9 – Economic Theology And The Indebtedness Of Everyday Life (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-9-economic-theology-and-the-indebtedness-of-everyday-life-announcement/) editors Participants are invited to join us live in the ninth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the View Article ### [Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 2 (Wendy Felese)](/religioustheory/posts/reorientation-in-the-field-why-religion-matters-part-2-wendy-felese/) 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). 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 ### [Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 4 (Daniel Reiser)](/religioustheory/posts/tsimtsum-in-life-of-pi-part-4-daniel-reiser/) 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 View Article ### [Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 3 (Daniel Reiser)](/religioustheory/posts/tsimtsum-in-life-of-pi-part-3-daniel-reiser/) 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 View Article ### [Sexual Difference And The Vatican – A Lacanian Response, Part 3 (Melissa Conroy)](/religioustheory/posts/sexual-difference-and-the-vatican-a-lacanian-response-part-3-melissa-conroy/) Melissa Conroy The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Likewise, Teresa de Lauretis argues that gender is best View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [“The Reluctant Fundamentalist” And The Inhospitable State – Abrahamic Hospitality And The Limits Of Multiculturalism, Part 1 (Emily McAvan)](/religioustheory/posts/the-reluctant-fundamentalist-and-the-inhospitable-state-abrahamic-hospitality-and-the-limits-of-multiculturalism-emily-mcavan/) EMILY McAVAN > “Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.” (Romans 12:13 NIV) > > “he who believes in Allah and the Last Day should show hospitality to View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 2 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/fetishism-and-the-erasure-of-identity-part-2-roger-green/) Roger K. Green The following is the second of a two-part series. The initial installment can be found here. Although we must constantly remember that the fetish is the product View Article ### [Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 1 (Roger Green)](/religioustheory/posts/fetishism-and-the-erasure-of-identity-part-1-roger-green/) Roger K. Green The following is the first of a two-part series. The second installment can be found here. The concept of fetishism has a special place within the long history View Article ### [The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 2 (Gavin Hyman)](/religioustheory/posts/the-new-hegel-and-the-question-of-god-part-2-gavin-hyman/) Gavin Hyman The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. Slavoj Žižek’s return to God in the context of his wider return View Article ### [The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (Gavin Hyman)](/religioustheory/posts/the-new-hegel-and-the-question-of-god-part-1-gavin-hyman/) Gavin Hyman Among recent developments in continental philosophy and religious thought, one of the most prominent has been a ‘return to Hegel.’ It has been exemplified in View Article ### [From Kant to Hölderlin – Poetry And Religion In The Wake Of Philosophical Aesthetics, Part 3 (Jakob Deibl)](/religioustheory/posts/from-kant-to-holderlin-poetry-and-religion-in-the-wake-of-philosophical-aesthetics-part-3-jakob-deibl-2/) Jakob Deibl The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here, the second one here. Translated by Philipp Schlögl It View Article ### [Call For Papers – Special Issue On Walter Benjamin And Religion](/religioustheory/posts/call-for-papers-special-issue-on-walter-benjamin-and-religion/) 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 View Article ### [From Kant to Hölderlin – Poetry And Religion In The Wake Of Philosophical Aesthetics, Part 1 (Jakob Deibl)](/religioustheory/posts/from-kant-to-holderlin-poetry-and-religion-in-the-wake-of-philosophical-aesthetics/) Jakob Deibl The following is the first installment of a three-part series. Translated by Philipp Schlögl. Friederich Hölderlin’s famous quote “Thus all Religion would be View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [God And Salvation, Lecture 8 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/god-and-salvation-lecture-8-johannes-zachhuber/) Johannes Zachhuber This is the eighth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent lecture can be found here. The paper these lectures support is entitled “God, Christ, and View Article ### [Review – The Intimate Universal (Stephen Bujno)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-intimate-universal-stephen-bujno/) Stephen Bujno *William Desmond, The Intimate Universal: The Hidden Porosity Among Religion, Art, Philosophy, and Politics. Columbia University Press, 2016. 520 pages View Article ### [Review – The Enigmatic Absolute (Stanimir Panayotov)](/religioustheory/posts/review-the-enigmatic-absolute-stanimir-panayotov/) Stanimir Panayotov *Joshua Ramey and Matthew S. Haar Farris (Eds.), Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: The Enigmatic Absolute 299 pages. View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Towards A New Comparative Methodology In Religious Studies (Kara Roberts)](/religioustheory/posts/towards-a-new-comparative-methodology-in-religious-studies-kara-roberts/) 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 View Article ### [Review – Neurotheological Nuances (Joshua Canzona)](/religioustheory/posts/review-neurotheological-nuances-joshua-canzona/) Joshua Canzona Neurotheology: How Science Can Enlighten Us About Spirituality. Newberg, Andrew. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. ISBN 9780231179041. Hardback View Article ### [Review – Medicinal Religion (Aaron Klink)](/religioustheory/posts/review-medicinal-religion-aaron-klink/) Aaron Klink *Balboni, Michael J. and Peteet, John R. eds. Spirituality and Religion Within the Culture of Medicine: From Evidence to Practice ISBN 9780190272432 Hardcover. View Article ### [Negative Theology And Its Problems: Barth And Marion, Lecture 3 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/negative-theology-and-its-problems-barth-and-marion-lecture-3-johannes-zachhuber/) Johannes Zachhuber The following is the third lecture in an eight-lecture series. I have described in last week’s lecture how, during the 19th century, some serious challenges View Article ### [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/) 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 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 ### [The Critique Of Theism – Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Lecture 2 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/the-critique-of-theism-kant-hegel-feuerbach-nietzsche-lecture-2-johannes-zachhuber/) Johannes Zachhuber The following is the second lecture in an eight-lecture series. The first can be found here. I introduced these lectures last week by pointing out the unique View Article ### [Thinking About God In A Pluralistic World – The Challenge of Modern Theology, Lecture 1 (Johannes Zachhuber)](/religioustheory/posts/thinking-about-god-in-a-pluralistic-world-the-challenge-of-modern-theology-lecture-1-johannes-zuchaber/) Johannes Zachhuber The following is the first lecture in an eight lecture series. A couple of days ago, I read a column in a national newspaper whose title had a strange View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Review – An Uncritical Critique of Theism (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-an-uncritical-critique-of-theism-rebekah-gordon/) 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 View Article ### [Review—Whither Philosophy of Religion? (Benjamin Steele-Fisher)](/religioustheory/posts/review-whither-philosophy-of-religion-benjamin-steele-fisher/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Religious Studies and Comparative Theology – An Appraisal (Joshua Samuel)](/religioustheory/posts/religious-studies-and-comparative-theology-an-appraisal-joshua-samuel/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Review – Mysticism As Language Game (Adam Loch)](/religioustheory/posts/review-mysticism-as-language-game-adam-loch/) Adam Loch *Tugendhat, Ernst. Egocentricity and Mysticism: An Anthropological Study. Translated by Alexei Procyshyn and Mario Wenning ISBN-10: 0231169124. 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Rapid City SD: Shelter50 Publishing Collective, 2015 View Article ### [Untimely Meditations on Techno-Theology and Theo-Poetics, Part 1 (John Panteleimon Manoussakis)](/religioustheory/posts/untimely-meditations-on-techno-theology-and-theo-poetics-part-1-john-panteleimon-manoussakis/) John Panteleimon Manoussakis The following is the first half of the article. The second installment can be found here. Philosophy’s very first utterance, according to Aristotle, present us View Article ### [Review – Theologies of the Boss (James Cochran)](/religioustheory/posts/review/) James Cochran *Yadin-Israel, Azzan. The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen. Highland Park: Lingua Press, 2016. 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It View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Renegade Hinduism Scholar Featured In Norton’s Anthology of World Religions](/religioustheory/posts/renegade-hinduism-scholar-featured-in-nortons-anthology-of-world-religions/) 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 View Article ### [Recovering the Unconscious – A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion – CFP](/religioustheory/posts/call-for-papers-and-presentation-recovering-the-unconcious-a-conference-on-the-intersection-of-psychoanalysis-with-politics-philosophy-and-religion/) editors A Conference on the Intersection of Psychoanalysis With Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Sponsored by the University of Denver and the Colorado Analytic Forum View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Review Essay – Peter Sloterdijk on Social Bonds, Freedom, and Religion](/religioustheory/posts/review-essay-peter-sloterdijk-on-social-bonds-freedom-and-religion/) editors The English reception of Peter Sloterdijk has been ambivalent at best, relying largely on hearsay from European interlocutors (Žižek especially) or gossip about View Article ### [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/) 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. View Article ### [Conferences and CFPs – Upcoming](/religioustheory/posts/upcoming-conferences-call-for-papers/) editors Beyond Habermas? 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