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If you are having trouble, please email us It highlights View Article ### [Critical Conversations – A Conversation With Arthur Bradley On Sovereignty, Part 2](/religioustheory/posts/critical-conversations-a-conversation-with-arthur-bradley-on-sovereignty-part-2/) editors The following is the second part of a transcript of one of our ongoing “Critical Conversations” with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley View Article ### [The Futurity Of God, Part 2 (Lenart Škof)](/religioustheory/posts/the-futurity-of-god-part-2-lenart-skof/) Lenart Škof The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. In a chapter titled “The Magic of Being Mormon”, Stephen H It highlights 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 ### [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 ### [“Scale Relative Ontology” And Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy, Part 1 (N.E. Boulting)](/religioustheory/posts/scale-relative-ontology-and-simone-weils-spiritual-philosophy-part-1-n-e-boulting/) N. E. Boulting Can the debilitating effects of Scientism – identifying knowledge solely “with science” – be overcome? To answer that question, Simone Weil’s treatment of her 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 ### [Announcing “The New Polis” – An E-Publication On Critical Theory, Cultural Analysis, And Political Thought](/religioustheory/posts/announcing-the-new-polis-an-e-publication-on-critical-theory-cultural-analysis-and-political-thought/) editors The directors of The Whitestone Foundation, the Colorado-based 501(c)3 non-profit corporation that has published The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory View Article ### [Looking For Reviewers](/religioustheory/posts/new-book-titles-looking-for-reviewers/) editors We are looking for authors to review the a variety books in different topic areas related to religious and cultural theory It highlights key arguments View Article ### [“Notations” – Call for Contributors](/religioustheory/posts/notations-the-european-refugee-crisis-and-more/) editors In addition to reviews and commentaries, the new JCRT feature “religious theory” ([jcrt.org](https://jcrt.org)/religioustheory), updated regularly, will publish... View Article ### [Review – Reframing Schelling (Rolando Rodriguez)](/religioustheory/posts/review-reframing-schelling-rolando-rodriguez/) Rolando Rodriguez Daniel Whistler, **Schelling’s Theory of Symbolic Language: Forming the System of Identity (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013), 261 ppgs + xi** 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 ### [The Kingdom, The Power, The Glory, And The Tawdry – Media And The Undoing Of The Demos, Part 1 (Carl Raschke)](/religioustheory/posts/the-kingdom-the-power-the-glory-and-the-tawdry-media-and-the-undoing-of-the-demos-part-1-carl-raschke/) Carl A. Raschke This article appears in three installments. It was originally a paper given at the international conference “The Crisis of Representation” at Melk Conference View Article ### [Review – Bahai Religion And Religious Cycles (Rebekah Gordon)](/religioustheory/posts/review-bahai-religion-and-religious-cycles-rebekah-gordon/) Rebekah Gordon Sergeev, Mikhail. Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, and the Baha’i Faith. Amsterdam: Brill Rodopi, 2015. ISBN-10:9004300031. Paperback View Article ### [Review – Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities (Dean Dettloff)](/religioustheory/posts/review-ontic-flows-from-digital-humanities-to-posthumanities-dean-dettloff/) Dean Dettloff *Bernico, Matt, and Kölke, Manuela (Eds.). Ontic Flows: From Digital Humanities to Posthumanities. New York: Atropos Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 1940813085 It View Article ### [Forging A Path From Theory To Theology – Review Essay (Matt Waggoner)](/religioustheory/posts/forging-a-path-from-theory-to-theology-review-essay-matt-waggoner/) Matt Waggoner *Blanton, Ward. Crockett, Clayton. Robbins, Jeffrey. Vahanian, Noëlle. An Insurrectionist Manifesto: Four New Gospels for a Radical Politics (Insurrections: 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 – Badiou Is Not Afraid of The Dark (Mason Davis)](/religioustheory/posts/review-badiou-is-not-afraid-of-the-dark-mason-davis/) Mason Davis *Badiou, Alain. Black: The Brilliance of a Non-Color. Translated by Susan Spitzer. New Jersey: Polity, 2016. ISBN-10: 1509512071. Hardcover, paperback, e-book View Article ### [Newest Titles For Review – Freud, Nussbaum, Angst, The Crucified God, Etc.](/religioustheory/posts/newest-titles-for-review-freud-nussbaum-angst-the-crucified-god-etc/) editors Religious Theory has just added new titles for which we are looking for reviewers (listed below). If you would like to review one of them, please send an email View Article ### [Spinoza’s Theory of Religion – Stabilized Superstition (Ehud Benor)](/religioustheory/posts/spinozas-theory-of-religion-stabilized-superstition-ehud-benor/) Ehud Benor The best interpretations of Spinoza’s philosophy would lead us to believe that, for Spinoza, religion is superstition. Henry Allison’s account is an excellent View Article ### [Rethinking Anselm’s Atonement Theory – “Unmaking” The Indebted Man (Ryne Beddard)](/religioustheory/posts/rethinking-anselms-atonement-theory-unmaking-the-indebted-man-ryne-beddard/) Ryne Beddard Throughout Church history Christians have used various images and illustrations to explain why God became a human and died, and why these actions have been 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 ### [Review – François Laruelle’s General Theory of Victims (John Matthew Allison)](/religioustheory/posts/review-francois-laruelles-general-theory-of-victims-john-matthew-allison/) John Matthew Allison *Laruelle, François. General Theory of Victims. Translated by Jessie Hock and Alex Dubilet. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0745679617 It highlights View Article ### [Review – Whence and Whither Posthumanism? (Bo Eberle)](/religioustheory/posts/review-whence-and-whither-posthumanism-bo-eberle/) Bo Eberle *White, Ryan. The Hidden God: Pragmatism and Posthumanism in American Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0231171005 Hardcover, e-book. View Article ### [Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology, Part 2 (Daniel Tutt)](/religioustheory/posts/love-psychoanalysis-and-leftist-political-ontology-part-2-daniel-tutt/) Daniel Tutt The following is the second installment of a two-part article by Daniel Tutt entitled “Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology.” It has been 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 – Giorgio Agamben and the Theory of Civil War (Ignas Kalpokas)](/religioustheory/posts/review-giorgio-agamben-and-the-theory-of-civil-war-kalpokas/) Ignas Kalpokas *Agamben, Giorgio. Stasis: Civil War as a Political Paradigm (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). Translated by Nicholas Heron Translated by Nicholas Heron. 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 ### [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 ### [Review – Jean-Pierre Couture Brings To Life The Ongoing Oeuvre of Peter Sloterdijk](/religioustheory/posts/review-jean-pierre-couture-brings-to-life-for-first-time-the-entire-works-of-sloterdijk/) editors *Couture, Jean-Pierre. Sloterdijk (Key Contemporary Thinkers). Boston: Polity, 2015. 208 pages. ISBN-10: 0745663818. Hardback, paperback, e-book, 208 pages 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 ### [Plundering A Theory of Trauma – Confessions of A Novice Author on Lacan and Theology](/religioustheory/posts/plundering-a-theory-of-trauma-confessions-of-a-novice-author-on-lacan-and-theology/) editors Nietzsche’s advice to young authors was to never admit error, for our critics will neither give an inch nor forgive our humility in siding against ourselves 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 ### [Religious Theory – A New Review, Commentary, and Conversations Feature of JCRT](/religioustheory/posts/religious-theory-a-new-review-commentary-and-conversations-feature-of-jcrt/) editors Religious Theory is the new commentary, review, and conversation blog for The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights key arguments and View Article --- See [all tags](/tags). 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