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  "textContent": "Bennett-Carpenter - Quoting Mieke Bal's Navel - JCRT 4.1 \n\nQuoting Mieke Bal's Navel: Contemporary Theory, Preposterous Religion\n\nBenjamin Bennett-Carpenter  \nCatholic University of America\n\n  \n\nI\n\nArt and literary theorist Mieke Bal may be read in terms of a philosophy or theory of religion in a genealogy that begins with Kierkegaard, runs through Nietzsche and Heidegger and concludes in the vicinity of Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, and Derrida. With Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, hers is a post-Christendom, post-christian theory of religion that could be described at the outset as 'preposterous.' With Nietzsche and Heidegger, her critical and interpretive strategies _circulate_, not to attempt a circumvention of meaning, but to negotiate the limits of significant horizons. With Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, she follows a _bodied_ phenomenology that can never extricate itself from the world and earth. With Derrida and Foucault, she is both deconstructive and post-structuralist as she moves amongst the play of signs and the rhetoric of resistance. Finally, she stands as an alternative to Baudrillard in a world of theory after Foucault and Derrida or, at least, in the midst of their traces.\n\nII\n\nIII\n\nIV\n\nV\n\n_Special thanks to Stephen Happel who introduced me to \"Mieke Bal\" and who offered significant feedback at several points during the writing of this article._\n\n  \n\nNotes\n  \n\nReferences\n\n> Alice Bach.\n> \n> 1991\\. \\[review of Murder and Difference and Death and Dissymmetry.\\] _Union Seminary Quarterly Review_ 44/3-4: 333-341.\n> \n> Anderson, Janice Capel\n> \n> 1991\\. \\[review of Lethal Love.\\] _Critical Review of Books in Religion_: 21-44.\n> \n> Bal, Mieke.\n> \n> 1980\\. \"Narrativite et manipulation,\" _Degres_ 8.\n> \n> 1986\\. _Femmes imaginaries. L'ancien testament au risque d'une narratologie critique_. 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Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster / John Knox Press.\n> \n> Detweiler, Robert.\n> \n> 1991\\. \"Parerga: Homely Details, Secret Intentions, Veiled Threats.\" _Journal of Literature & Theology_ 5/1 (March): 1-10.\n> \n> Eliot, T.S.\n> \n> 1951\\. _Selected Essays_, 3rd ed. London: Faber. Cited in Paul Giles (1992), _American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics_, 252. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.\n> \n> 1975 \\[1919\\]. \"Tradition and Individual Talent.\" In _Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot_, 37-44. Edited with introduction by Frank Kermode. London: Faber and Faber. 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Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.\n> \n> Jobling, David.\n> \n> 1991\\. \"Mieke Bal on Biblical Narrative\" \\[review article\\]. _Religious Studies Review_ 17 (Jan): 1-10.\n> \n> Kemp, Sandra.\n> \n> 1992\\. \\[Review of Reading Rembrandt.\\] _Journal of Literature & Theology_ 7: 302-305.\n> \n> Lynn, Greg.\n> \n> 1993\\. \"Body Matters.\" _Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts_, Special Issue: The Body. Edited by Andrew Benjamin. (\\[no vol. or issue no.\\] 60-69. Cited in Bal (1999b).\n> \n> Parker, Patricia.\n> \n> 1992\\. \"Preposterous Events.\" _Shakespeare Quarterly_ 43/2:186-213. Cited in Bal (1999a).\n> \n> Raschke, Carl.\n> \n> 1999\\. \"Theorizing Religion at the Turn of the Millennium: From the Sacred to the Semiotic.\" _Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory_ 1:1 (December).\n> \n> 2000\\. \"Para/theology: The Study of Religion and the Science of the Negative.\" _Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory_ 2:1 (December).\n> \n> Serres, Michel.\n> \n> 1982\\. _The Parasite_. Translated by Lawrence R. Schehr. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press.\n> \n> Taylor, Victor.\n> \n> 1999\\. _Para-Inquiry: Postmodern Religion and Culture_. New York and London: Routledge.\n\n  \n\n> Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter is a doctoral student in religion and rhetoric at the Catholic University of America, Washington DC.\n\n  \n\n> \n\n  \n\n ' 2002 Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter. All rights reserved.  \nUpdated 07/28/21.   \nhttp://jcrt.org/archives/04.1/bennett-carpenter/\n\n---",
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