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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 View Article ### [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/) 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 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 ### [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/) Anna-Maria Magnasco Part 1 investigates charismatic healing as embodied practice, arguing that affect, ritual, and perception can reconfigure modern assumptions about agency and View Article ### [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/) 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 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 ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 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 ### [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/) 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 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 ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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: View Article ### [Difficult Discussions – Christian Evangelicalism And Critical Race Theory (Announcement)](/religioustheory/posts/difficult-discussions-christian-evangelicalism-and-critical-race-theory-announcement/) editors When: Thursday, September 23, 2021, 10 am-12 pm (Mountain Daylight Time) Register for online seminar: It highlights key arguments and implications for View Article ### [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/) 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 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 ### [Antinomian Flesh, Part 1 (David Kline)](/religioustheory/posts/antinomian-flesh-part-1-david-kline/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 3 (Paul Maltby)](/religioustheory/posts/the-hollow-christians-of-end-times-fiction-part-3-paul-maltby/) 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 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 ### [“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/) 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 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 ### [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 ### [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 ### [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 ### [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 ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Review – Neoliberalsm Is Nowhere – Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos (Isaiah Dylan Ellis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-neoliberalismisnowhere-wendy-browns-undoing-the-demos-isaiah/) Isaiah Dylan Ellis * Brown, Wendy. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. New York: Zone Books, 2015. ISBN-10: 1935408534. Hardcover Hardcover. 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 ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [Review – Of Politics and Motion (Joshua Lawrence)](/religioustheory/posts/review-of-politics-and-motion-joshua-lawrence/) 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 View Article ### [Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 1 (Daniel Tutt)](/religioustheory/posts/love-psychoanalysis-and-leftist-political-ontology-part-1-daniel-tutt/) 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 View Article ### [A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 2 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/a-preface-to-the-genealogy-of-neoliberalism-part-2-carl-raschke/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 View Article ### [A Preface To The Genealogy of Neoliberalism, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/a-preface-to-the-genealogy-of-neoliberalism-part-1-carl-raschke/) 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 View Article ### [Review – Digital Technologies and Religion in the Postmodern Era (Albert McClure)](/religioustheory/posts/review-digital-technologies-and-religion-in-the-postmodern-era/) 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. View Article ### [What Is A Dispositif? – Part 1 (Gregg Lambert)](/religioustheory/posts/what-is-a-dispositif-part-1/) 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 View Article ### [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/) 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 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 --- See [all tags](/tags). 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