About About Religion: a Conversation with Mark C. Taylor

The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory January 1, 2001

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Taylor & Raschke - About About Religion - JCRT 2.2

About About Religion: A Conversation with Mark C. Taylor

Mark C. Taylor
Williams College

Carl A. Raschke
University of Denver

Mark C. Taylor is widely known for his reworking of the theological enterprise in terms of the philosophy of Jacques Derrida and the movement within the humanities that came to be known as "deconstruction". Taylor himself has denoted this approach as "a/theology." In recent years he has turned his attention to the subjects of religion and "religious studies," which he argues can only be compassed in an interdisciplinary, or non-disciplinary, manner. The following conversation between Taylor and Carl A. Raschke, senior editor of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory_, engages in a free-wheeling style the sorts of themes and issues which Taylor has brought to the forefront. It takes as a point of departure Taylor's recent book entitled_ About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture (University of Chicago Press, 1999). There's something "about" religion? What is that all about? The conversation probes that question.

Mark C. Taylor is the Cluett Professor of Humanities at Williams College and the Co-Founder of the Global Education Network. He is the author of numerous books on theology, philosophy, art, architecture, and technology.

Carl A. Raschke is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of many books and hundreds of articles on subjects ranging from postmodern religious thought to higher education and the digital revolution. He is the senior editor of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory.

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