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CFP: Religion, Politics, and Cognitive Warfare

This call for papers invites work on religion, politics, and cognitive warfare, exploring how belief, media, conspiracy, identity, and power shape struggles over reality, interpretation, and life in a…

An Appeal to the American People—Overturning “Federal Indian Law”

Steven J. Schwartzberg urges Americans to overturn Federal Indian Law by confronting the colonial assumptions that still shape U.S. jurisprudence now.

An Intergenerational and Perpetual Imperium of Domination and Subjugation of Indigenous Peoples: The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Royal Supremacy

Phillip Rodgers-Falk argues that native title and colonial sovereignty preserve Indigenous subordination through terra nullius and racial hierarchies.

A Postscript: Sovereignty is Still the Issue

This postscript argues Indigenous nations need full sovereignty, rejecting settler carve-outs and urging a healing return to precolonial lifeways now.

My Decades-long Inquiry Into the Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination

Steven Newcomb reflects on decades studying Christian Discovery, showing how law and language normalized domination over Native nations for centuries.

The International Law of Colonialism: The Doctrine of Discovery

Robert J. Miller traces how the Doctrine of Discovery became international law, enabling colonial claims over Indigenous land, rights and sovereignty.

The Doctrine of Christian Discovery and Domination: How It Has Been Used by United States Courts to Deny Treaty Rights & Dismiss the Haudenosaunee Land Rights Cases

Joseph J. Heath shows how U.S. courts use Christian Discovery to deny Haudenosaunee treaty and land rights, and calls for its repudiation in U.S. law.

Right & Respectful Relations: A Memoir of the Road to the Historic Yakama Nation Amicus Brief Challenging ‘Christian Discovery’ in Washington State V. Cougar Den

Jode Goudy recounts how the Yakama Nation built a historic amicus brief, connecting treaty rights, sovereignty, and opposition to Christian Discovery.

Conclusion: Dismantling the Doctrine of Christian Discovery Cultivating Right Relations

The conclusion calls for decolonization beyond legal reform, centering Indigenous law, land return, and right relations to resist Christian Discovery.

Federal Anti-indian Law: Why a Challenge to “Christian Discovery” Creates a Metaphysical Crisis for the US

Peter d'Errico argues that U.S. anti-Indian law rests on Christian Discovery, and that challenging it exposes a metaphysical crisis in U.S. law today.

Introduction

Introduction to a global volume on Christian Discovery, linking law, religion, and pedagogy, with Indigenous sovereignty and decolonial justice today.

Silencing the Doctrine of Discovery – The Brazilian Process: Accidental Discoveries, Secret Manuscripts, Imaginary Lines and Myths

Alencar traces how the Doctrine of Discovery shaped Brazil through church-backed silence, racial myths, and colonial violence, urging decolonial accountability.

Deconstructing the Erie Canal: Three Lessons for its Next Century

Unselling the Classroom: Confronting History and Ourselves

Berlin urges teachers to confront settler colonialism and white supremacy by centering Indigenous history critical pedagogy, and accountability today.

The Medieval Origins of Religious White Supremacy: English Imperialism, Crusade Defeats, and the Doctrine of Discovery

Callan traces how medieval English myths, crusade defeat, and Irish colonization shaped Christian white supremacy and fed the global Doctrine of Discovery.

Expecting Excellence in Education: When Content Conditions Class Consciousness

Chaness links white supremacy, settler colonialism, and anti-Indian racism, showing how Indigenous values and pedagogy reshape critical classroom practice.

The Chosen People at Grouse Mountain

Felese challenges conquest-based land values and shows Indigenous relational worldviews offer life-affirming alternatives to extraction and alienation

Flesh of Words: Confrontation, Navigation, and Integrity in the English Classroom

Hurtado uses Critical Race Theory and Latina feminisms to show how multiethnic curricula can confront colonial legacies and teach resistance in class.

Dismantling White Supremacy in the Classroom and Beyond

Jimenez shows criminal justice education must confront white supremacy by centering race, power and oppression to transform teaching and policies now.

Other Forms of Dwelling: A Dalit – Feminist Perspective

Lakshmi frames Dalit feminist values alongside Indigenous frameworks to show alternative forms of dwelling, relation, and resistance beyond colonial modernity.

Charting the Doctrine in the Colonial Archive: Papal Bulls and the Translation of the ‘Discovery’ Purpose

Modrow shows how papal bulls transformed crusade theology into global colonial strategy, legitimizing Indigenous dispossession and imperial expansion.

“Engineering Marvel”: Towards Resisting the Affective Politics of Erie Canal Heritage

Nagle critiques Erie Canal heritage marketing, showing how engineered marvel obscures Haudenosaunee dispossession and calls settlers to affective resistance.

Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Increase Shared Language and Conceptual Frameworks Between Black and Indigenous Feminist Organizing

Nahar argues Doctrine of Discovery can build shared language between Black and Indigenous feminisms, strengthening solidarity against settler colonial power.

A Preface to Challenging the Justifications of Domination Through Religion: “We Were Planting Corn, and They Were Planting Crosses”

Preface to a special issue examining Christian Discovery’s role in white supremacy, law, and education, with decolonial paths grounded in Indigenous justice.

Schools, Teachers, and Teacher Educators: Education Through the Disruption of White Supremacy

Radhakrishnan examines how U.S. schooling reproduces white supremacy and identifies teacher education strategies to disrupt curriculum, instruction, and policy.

Hindu Political Theology: Beyond Hindutva’s Political Monotheism

Somayajula reads Hindutva as political theology, showing how Hindu nationalism flattens religious diversity and urging a more inclusive Hindu identity.

Baltic Religion: The Sacred Things

Trinkauskaite explores Baltic sacred traditions and sutartinės, linking domestic deities and revivalist practice to collective ethics beyond hierarchy.

Christian Control of Women and Mother Earth: The Doctrine of Discovery and the Doctrine of Male Domination

Wagner links church patriarchy and the Doctrine of Discovery to colonial violence, calling for Indigenous rematriation to restore women and the Earth.

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Special Issue On Religion and Bioethics (Call for Papers)

The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) invites submissions for a special issue dedicated to the intersection of religion and bioethics It

Dis/Ordered Liberty: Islamic and Catholic Feminist Perspectives on Natural Law After Dobbs

A Conversation with Philip P. Arnold on the Urgency of Indigenous Values

Reuniting Ethics and Aesthetics: Augustinian and Thomistic Aesthetics and the Buck-Passing Account of Aesthetic Value.

Saying “You”: the Grammar of Address and the Limitations of Cognitive Theories of Religion

Healing as Multimedia Practice: Contemporary Spirituality in Turkey

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Zeynep, a 37-year-old Turkish woman, comes from a secular family background. She has traveled to Bali and India on different occasions to participate in yoga

Greening America’s Virtues (Nick Mather)

The United States likes to present itself as a global leader, yet, when it comes to tackling what is arguably the greatest crisis facing humanity, global

Conference on Religion and Bioethics – Call for Proposals

This call for proposals frames a conference on religion and bioethics, inviting interdisciplinary work on ethics, theology, policy, and emerging The argument

Sikh Environmental Ethics-Theory and Praxis Part 2 (Harpreet Kaur)

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Many verses can be retrieved to prompt human beings to be thankful

Sikh Environmental Ethics-Theory and Praxis Part 1 (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

Religious Faith In Pursuit of Environmental Justice (Chris Durante)

In recent years, the world’s religions, including the Abrahamic faiths as well as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and various indigenous forms of spirituality, have

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As early as 2014, governmental officials in the city of Flint, Michigan made a series of decisions that would prove to have deleterious effects on the people

The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil, Part 2 (Mick Pope)

The article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. It is generally recognised that the Garden story is more environmentally friendly

The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil, Part 1 (Mick Pope)

Earth history has entered a new geological era known as the Anthropocene. The commonly agreed origin of this era was the 1950s with the “Great Acceleration,” a

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On October 4, 2023, Pope Francis published the apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum (“Praise God”), an 8000-word document advocating for urgent action to counter

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The religious attitude of the West today demonstrates a consumerist ethos that would have been deeply foreign to the religious discourse of old It highlights

Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 3 (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

Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, And Power, Part 2 (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

Sikhs As Subalterns – Voice, Inequality, and Power, Part 1 (Nirvikar Singh)

The following article is the first of three installments. It is published as a catalogued .PDF in article in the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and

Longing for an Impossible Past: DiffÉRance, Distance, and the Coronavirus as the Inauguration of an Age of Writing.

Modern Theology and the Dialectic of God.

The Ultimate and the Penultimate: Bonhoeffer’s Twofold Contextualism and Adjudicating Between Competing Ethical Claims.

Tsimtsum in Life of Pi.

The Religious Significance of Miracles: Why Hume’s Critique of Miracles Is Superfluous.

Religious Faith in Pursuit of Environmental Justice.

Revolutionary Love: Kierkegaard’s Gift Economy as a Religious Corrective to the Leveling of the Public Sphere.

Bushwhacking Derrida: Perception

Sexual Difference and the Vatican: a Lacanian Response.

The Solar Nun: the Prophetic Action and Thought of Sr. Paula Gonzalez, S.C

The Image of God and Our Vocation of the Soil

Seated at the Cross: What Black Disabled Bodies Can Teach US About Environmental Justice

Ancestral Devotion, New England Conservation, and the Challenge of Environmental Justice

Greening America’s Virtues

The Environmental Ethics of Pope Francis: Parsing Key Terms and Claims in Laudato Si

Sikh Environmental Ethics: Theory and Praxis

Metaphysical Protestantism: a Comparative Literary Ecology

Transforming Schema: Toward an Integral Ecology.

Religious Sacrificial Sympathy: How Man Became More Valuable Than Beast.

“Naming the Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, and Radical Incompleteness: Resituating a Political Theology

Medical Procedure in the Heat of Emotion: the Positions of Military Rabbinate Personnel on Posthumous Sperm Retrieval (Psr) Following the October 7, 2023 Attack

The Violence of Classification and Ethics of Suicide: a Reflection on Qiu Jin’s Death

Constructing Mystical Experiences: a Critique of the Mystical Paradigm in Psychedelic Research

Reconsidering the Significance of Biogenetic Ties

Faith and Transitions: Religious Notions of Accountability and Gender Affirming Care for Youth

Suffering and Dying in Modern Pandemics: a Parallel Reading of Ivan Illich, Giorgio Agamben and Byung-Chul Han

A ‘Social Constructionist’ Approach to ‘Muslim Biomedical Ethics’: Examining ‘Muslim’ Opposition to Physician-Assisted Suicide

Religion’s Relationship with Public Bioethics: a Critical Historical Assessment and Pragmatic Method for Inclusive Discourse

The Sacred End: Exploring the Ethical Practice of SallekhanĀ in Jaina Tradition

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The following is the first of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural

the-re-enchantment-of-bodies-the-transformative-power-of-charismatic-healings-part-1-anna-magnasco

Part 1 investigates charismatic healing as embodied practice, arguing that affect, ritual, and perception can reconfigure modern assumptions about agency and

The Sacred As Bordering Practice, Part 2 (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

The Sacred As Bordering Practice, Part 1 (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

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This article is published in two installments. The first can be found here. Taylor’s typification of postmodernism as Flatland, however, as the quintessential

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Almost a half century ago a change took place in the humanities, and by extension in the fledgling field of religious studies It highlights key arguments

The Religious Roots of Environmental Justice – An Online Conference

Catherine Keller practices theology as a relation between ancient hints of ultimacy and current matters of urgency. As the George T As the George T. It

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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

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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

the-imagination-in-spinoza-the-moral-good-between-prophecy-and-the-amor-dei-intellectualis-part-1-caterina-de-gaetano

The following is the first of a two-part series. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights

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Where: Online (Zoom) – Registration Required Submission deadline for proposals: Friday, September 15, 2023 It highlights key arguments and implications

Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 2 (Magdalena Sedmak)

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

Trauma In Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body, Part 1 (Magdalena Sedmak)

The following is the first of a two part series. The entire article appears in Issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory It highlights

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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

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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

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This project was provoked by the almost nonexistent pushback from the Democratic liberal establishment to the (2020) exoneration of Kyle Rittenhouse, despite

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The following essay appeared recently in The New Polis. It is republished here because of its timeliness and importance. What exactly is Christian nationalism?

hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-3-rebekah-howes

The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. The earlier article by Prof The earlier article by Prof.

hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-2-rebekah-howes

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The earlier article by Prof. Hyman to which the author replies can be found

hegel-contra-god-replying-to-gavin-hymans-new-hegel-part-1-rebekah-howes

The following is the first of a three-part series. The earlier article by Prof. Hyman to which the author replies can be found here It highlights key arguments

John Boswell’s History of (Eurochristian) Sexuality and the Case for Transcendental Somatics.

Embodied Trauma and Healing

Trauma in Emmanuel Levinas’ Writing Body

De(Ma)Cracy

Thinking – Life - Organic.

The Re-Enchantment of Bodies: the Transformative Power of Charismatic Healings in the “World of Phenomena”

Binding Freedom: Embodiment of the Secular and Religious

Evolution of Colonial Gender Roles

The Imagination in Spinoza: the Moral Good Between Prophecy and the Amor Dei Intellectualis

The Sacred as Bordering Practice

Embodied Restoration: the Cultivation of Quality of Life and Death

Sikhs as Subalterns: Voice, Inequality and Power

The Use and Abuse of the Expression “Christian Nationalism”

The Religious Roots of Environmental Justice

Hegel Contra God: Replying to Gavin Hyman’s ‘New Hegel’

Introducing Spirit Dance: Reconstructed / Spiritual Practices

On the Relation of Fashion to Art: An Interview with Ali Hval

Eckhart and the Ek-Sistence of God: a Mystical Quarter Turn in the Theology of the Real

philosophy-as-love-unblocking-the-road-from-athens-to-jerusalem-part-3-erik-meganck

The following is the third of a three part-series. The first can be found here, the second here. Where planning fails, despair grows Planning is also faithless.

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The following is the second of a three part-series. The first can be found here. Love is not the opposite of planning; openness is not the opposite of

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Philo-sophy literally means “love of wisdom.” But this can be read in more than one way. There is the well-known objective genitive, proposing that philosophers

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The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal. It

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The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal

a-tainted-trophy-and-the-framing-of-white-supremacy-in-america-part-1-tink-tinker

The following is the first of a three-part series. The entire article appears in the fall 2022 issue of The New Polis Journal It highlights key arguments

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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

religious-studies-as-the-state-religion-of-neoliberalism-part-2-carl-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

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> “Neptunus alii per alia, poterunt intellegi qui qualesque sint, quoque eos nomine consuetudo nuncupaverit, hoc eos et venerari et colere debemus.” – Cicero

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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

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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

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The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. The full article is also available in the Spring 2022 issue of

rapture-music-intensity-and-eschatology-within-christian-revival-movements-part-2-fraser-macdonald

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The full article is also available in the Spring 2022 issue of the Journal for

rapture-music-intensity-and-eschatology-within-christian-revival-movements-part-1-fraser-macdonald

The following is the first of a three-part series. The full article is also available in the Spring 2022 issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory

the-legacy-of-charles-h-long-resisting-and-short-circuiting-the-discourses-of-exclusion-in-the-theory-and-practice-of-administration-victor-e-taylor

The following essay introduces the upcoming volume of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory featuring reflections on the work of renowned religious

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The following is the second part of a transcript of one of our ongoing “Critical Conversations” with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley

critical-conversations-a-conversation-with-arthur-bradley-on-sovereignty-part-1

The following is the first part of a transcript of one of our ongoing “Critical Conversations” with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley

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The comparison between evangelical Christianity and EOC Christianity is their approach to the language. The Westerners use the mother tongue to translate

from-holistic-to-in-between-theology-the-ethiopian-evangelical-church-mekane-yesus-part-2-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

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The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus: Simultaneously Western and Indigenous Even though the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus has a Lutheran

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The following Critical Conversation took place on February 17, 2022 with Roger Green, author of A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics:

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The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and The New Polis in collaboration with representatives of the University of Denver announces a call for papers

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Sign up for this online seminar with distinguished British political philosopher Arthur Bradley on the compelling and most timely issue of “political erasure.“

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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

geschlecht-iii-authentic-faith-religion-and-politics-in-derridas-readings-of-heideggers-geist-part-2-jake-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

geschlecht-iii-authentic-faith-religion-and-politics-in-derridas-readings-of-heideggers-geist-part-1-jake-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

locating-the-oceanic-in-sylvia-wynters-demonic-ground-part-3-justine-m-bakker

Part 3 concludes the series by synthesizing Wynter's oceanic analytics and drawing implications for contemporary religious theory, critique, and decolonial

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Part 2 advances the oceanic reading of Wynter by detailing method and stakes, relating demonic ground to coloniality, black study, and experimental theoretical

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Part 1 introduces an oceanic reading of Sylvia Wynter's “Demonic Ground,” developing the conceptual frame and tracing how embodiment, race, and poetics

Mormonism and the White Possessive: Moving Critical Indigenous Studies Theory into the Religious Realm.

Locating the Oceanic in Sylvia Wynter’s

‘Scale Relative Ontology’ and Simone Weil’s Spiritual Philosophy.

The Function of Faith: Theological Constituents in Processual Utopian Methodology.

Thomas Aquinas's Body-Soul Dualism and the Hierarchy of Human Dignity in Brazil: The Theological Origins of a Nation's Hierarchical Self-Understanding

The Broken Middle: Gillian Rose and Paul Against the Empty Sacrifices of Modernity.

Geschlecht III: Authentic Faith, Religion, and Politics in Derrida’s Reading of Heidegger’s Geist

The Futurity of God

Orientalism, Ontology, and Orientation: a Muslim Perspective on Charles H. Long.

Why the White Guy?

Rapture Music: Intensity and Eschatology Within Christian Revival Movements.

From Holistic to in-Between Theology: the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus

A Reflection on Charles H. Long: Resisting and Shortcircuiting the Discourses of Exclusion in the Theory and Practice of Administration.

Africans Making the Modern World: According to Dr. Charles H. Long.

From Colonialism to an-Other Community: Reflections on the Radical Thought of Charles H. Long.

Against Thanatopolitics: a Marrano Intervention

Caveat Lector: Introduction.

A Response to Niall Gildea.

The Beautiful Marrano: a Response to Agata Bielik-Robson

A Critical Conversation on “Political Erasure”

Book Forum: The Poetics of Disappearance

Caveat Lector: Introduction

Parenthesis

Response

Against Thanatopolitics: A Marrano Intervention

The Beautiful Marrano: A Response to Agata Blielik-Robson

Undead

Otherwise: A Response to Boštjan Nedoh

Parenthesis

Niddah as Index of Jewish Sexuality: a Theoretical Foundation for an Anthrpology of Menstrual Rituals.

Philosophy as Love: Unblocking the Road from Athens to Jerusalem.

Undead

A Critical Conversation on “Political Erasure”

The Futurity Of God, Part 2 (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

The Futurity Of God, Part 1 (Lenart Škof)

God, if we hold to this word, is the future itself, or rather the eternal reservoir beyond time and creating time, who constantly projects himself or pours

the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-part-2-michael-c-raubach

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here Is it not true, though, that many individuals of different races, creeds, and

Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 3 (John Cuda)

Part 3 links entheogen practice and dreamwork, arguing that altered states function as a training ground for agency, myth-making, and transformed lived reality.

Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 2 (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

Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 1 (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

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The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. In short, then, despite the absence of God in Bad Times, the characters all come

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> “God is the ‘beyond’ in the midst of our life.” > > – Dietrich Bonhoeffer > > “Are you lost, Father?” > > “Sorry?” > > “Are you lost?” > > “No It highlights

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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

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The following is the second of a three-part series.The first can be found here, the second here. In sum, Boff proposes that a person is an indivisible body-soul

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The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The Ecclesial Endeavor to Define the Brazilian Soul: a Summa of the Colonial

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“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:

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When: Thursday, September 23, 2021, 10 am-12 pm (Mountain Daylight Time) Register for online seminar: It highlights key arguments and implications for

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The following is the last of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the

truth-and-irony-beyond-binary-patterns-in-theological-reasoning-part-2-florian-klug

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. It will appear as a full article in the Fall 2021 issue of the Journal for

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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

Debriefing On Decoloniality – A Public Conversation, Part 2

Part 2 continues the debrief transcript, sharpening arguments about decoloniality, epistemic rupture, and institutional practice across regional and The

Debriefing On Decoloniality – A Public Conversation, Part 1

Part 1 presents a transcripted debrief from participants in the decoloniality conference, mapping core disagreements, shared concerns, and conceptual stakes

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When: Tuesday, June 29, 10am Mountain Standard Time How: Zoom. By Advance Registration. Please register at the following link below It highlights key arguments

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The following is the transcript of “Critical Conversations” No. 9, an ongoing series of Zoom seminars conducted by Whitestone Publications with distinguished

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The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Two not unrelated factors result in her rejection of ‘the New Science’ besides

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Can the debilitating effects of Scientism – identifying knowledge solely “with science” – be overcome? To answer that question, Simone Weil’s treatment of her

What Do We Mean By “Decoloniality”? A Discussion, Part 2

Part 2 continues the keynote discussion on decoloniality, elaborating disagreements over praxis, universality, and strategy while clarifying points of shared

What Do We Mean By “Decoloniality”? A Discussion, Part 1

Part 1 records a keynote discussion defining decoloniality, foregrounding coloniality's persistence, divergent methods, and disputes over politics, knowledge

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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

Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 2 (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).

decoloniality-and-disintegration-of-western-cognitive-empire-rethinking-sovereignty-and-territoriality-in-the-21st-century-international-conference

Sponsored by The New Polis, Whitestone Publications, and Metropolitan State University of Denver in collaboration with members of the Iliff School of Theology

Reorientation In The Field – Why Religion Matters, Part 1 (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

Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 4 (Kelly Maeshiro)

The following is the last of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here, the third here. Barth’s theology is in many ways contiguous with

Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 3 (Kelly Maeshiro)

The following is the third of a four-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Philosophically speaking, Hegel’s Absolute idealism represented

Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 2 (Kelly Maeshiro)

The following is the second of a four-part series. The first can be found here. Kantian idealism for Hegel represents the “shape” of Spirit corresponding to

Modern Theology And The Dialectic Of God, Part 1 (Kelly Maeshiro)

In the Christian tradition, the question of whether philosophy is necessary for theology, or even relevant to it, is a question almost as old as theology

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The following is the video and transcript of the fifth “Critical Conversation”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by Whitestone

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The New Polis in collaboration with the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (part of The Whitestone Foundation of publications) announces a webinar-based

Antinomian Flesh.

In Praise of Mortality: Christianity as a New Humanism

This edition of JCRT is a full translation from the German of the book Preis der Sterblichkeit: Christentum und Neuer Humanismus (Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany: Verlag Herder, 2015) Kurt Appel, Edito…

Intentionalism and God’s Fiction.

Can the world be conceived as an artwork as Simone Weil sometimes suggests? And does this suggestion not imply examining the relation between the creator's intentions and what is created? Three approa…

The Spirituality of Psychonautics: How Alice in Wonderland, the Matrix and Other Modern Myths Serve as Models for New Age Seekership and Identity Formation.

What do we Mean by Decoloniality?

Reorientation in the Field: Why Religion Matters.

“Teach Me to Do What’s Right”: Faith, Hope, and Love as Post-Religious Virtues.

Truth and Irony: the Conception of Truth Beyond Binary Patterns and the Use of Irony for Theological Reasoning.

What Do We Mean By

The following is a transcript of the keynote panel session of a three-day international webinar

Critical Conversations – “On Decoloniality” With Walter Mignolo (Announcement)

An earlier version of this posting had the date listed as “December,” which would imply the webinar had already occurred It highlights key arguments and

Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 4 (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

Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 3 (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

Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 2 (Daniel Reiser)

The following is the second of a four-part series. The first can be found here. Hasidism, which translated Kabbalah into psychological categories, was a target

Tsimtsum In Life Of Pi, Part 1 (Daniel Reiser)

Yann Martel’s 2001 bestselling novel Life of Pi, later released in 2012 as a prize-winning box office hit, addresses themes such as religion, faith It

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Participants are invited to join us live in the fifth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the

Antinomian Flesh, Part 3 (David Kline)

The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. Both before nomos and therefore its condition of enactment, the

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Participants are invited to join us live in the fourth of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the

Antinomian Flesh, Part 2 (David Kline)

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The above descriptions of nomos encapsulate general sociological, political

Antinomian Flesh, Part 1 (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

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The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The current medical paradigm works to suppress and erase these bodies by

Critical Conversations -“Subjectivities Since The Sixties” (Announcement)

Participants are invited to join us live in the second of a monthly series of “Critical Conversations” (Zoom webinars) with eminent scholars from around the

“The End Of Cognitive Empire” (Critical Conversations)

The following is the video and transcript of the first of “Critical Conversations”, a monthly Zoom seminar with advance registration sponsored by The New Polis

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The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Reflecting on the development of Bonhoeffer’s ethical thought, Rasmussen notes

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The following is the first of a two-part series. The life and work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer quickly captured the imagination of theologians, clergy, and lay

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After Derrida, how can philosophy continue to think critically, and for our task here, ontologically2…? Can a critique of the context of perception via its

Critical Conversations – “The End Of Cognitive Empire” (Announcement)

“Critical Conversations” is an ongoing initiative of Whitestone Publications. The main sponsor of the current series is The New Polis It highlights key

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Surprisingly few commentators have advanced this basic criticism against Hume’s argument. One glaring exception is the Wittgensteinian philosopher of religion

the-religious-significance-of-miracles-why-humes-critique-is-superfluous-part-2-alberto-urquidez

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The question I shall now consider is this: If not all miracles are religious

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The argument from miracles seeks to prove that a religious deity (such as God) exists on the premise that only God could have caused a miracle to occur

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*Raschke, Carl. Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019 It highlights key arguments

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The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Furthermore there is an element of nostalgia implicit in this desire It

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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

religious-studies-the-final-colonization-of-american-indians-part-1-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe-2

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

religious-studies-the-final-colonization-of-american-indians-part-1-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe

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

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Though Kierkegaard is typically considered to be the consummate philosopher of the single individual, his critique of secular modernity and institutional

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The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. A philosophy of finite human time is one way to read Martin Hägglund’s recent

naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-james-e-willis-iii

The Death of God theological movement of the mid-twentieth century serves as a productive starting place to consider spiritual violence in our time, or the

the-curious-whiteheadian-proclivity-in-schelers-account-of-god-and-persons-part-2-j-edward-hackett

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Before talking about Scheler’s conception of the person It highlights

the-curious-whiteheadian-proclivity-in-schelers-account-of-god-and-persons-j-edward-hackett

Before explicating the underlying structure of Scheler’s panentheism, I wanted to take some time and explain what Scheler’s phenomenological method entails and

the-reluctant-fundamentalist-and-the-inhospitable-state-abrahamic-hospitality-and-the-limits-of-multiculturalism-part-2-emily-mcavan

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Yet even in the first bloom of his success in New York, it is clear that

the-reluctant-fundamentalist-and-the-inhospitable-state-abrahamic-hospitality-and-the-limits-of-multiculturalism-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

Lacan And Pneumatology (Mark Murphy)

There has been much work on Lacan in describing his relationship to a Christological theology. We see this in work such as Žižek’s The Fragile Absolute and also

The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 3 (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

The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 2 (Paul Maltby)

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. End Times fiction’s unrelenting focus on human sinfulness and unworthiness, a

The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 1 (Paul Maltby)

A flaw at the heart of End Times fiction gravely weakens its credibility as Christian literature. Its stock characters lack the degree of interiority required

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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

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In 1896 Ethiopians defeated the Italian military and defended their border. That made Ethiopia the only black nation that defended its border in the era of

Review -- What is Real? (Filippo Pietrogrande)

Giorgio Agamben. What is Real? Trans. Lorenzo Chiesa. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. 88 pages. ISBN: 978-1-5036-0737-8

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The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. The recasting of the field of three against the field of two, which is the field

to-not-lose-sight-of-the-good-notes-on-the-zapatismo-ethic-part-1-matt-rosen

On the first of January 1994, as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Zapatista Army

Altizer’s Theology in Context

On Becoming a Radical Theologian.

Kenotic Theology, Buddhism, and Time.

Altizer and Derrida: Apocalyptic Spectralities

Apotheosis of the Nothing in Altizer’s Kenotic Atheology.

Even what we have left undone weaves the fabric of the entire future: even nothingness itself is a master weaver and a woman spinning webs.

Fetishism and the Erasure of Indigeneity.

The Curious Whiteheadian Proclivity in Scheler’s Account of God and Persons.

Horror Fiction and Catholic Theology - a Rhetorical Synthesis.

The “New Hegel” and the Question of God

The Hollow Christians of End Times Fiction.

The Irreducible.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist“ and the Inhospitable State - Abrahamic Hospitality and the Limits of Multiculturalism

Reframing the Adwa Victory as a Decolonizing Praxis: Discourse Around Colonization in the Ethiopian Context.

Lacan and Pneumatology.

To Not Lose Sight of the Good: Notes on the Zapatismo Ethic.

Religious Studies: the Final Colonization of the American Indian.

Benjamin’s Habits and the Study of Religion

Walter Benjamin’s World of Things.

Benjamin’s Habits and the Study of Religion

Benjamin, Method, and Weak Messianism

Benjamin: To the Rhythm of Theological Concepts

Critique in a Postsecular Age: Making Room for Tradition as a Medium

False Religions and True Politics: Countering Capitalism as Religion

Life After Life: a Figure of Thought in Walter Benjamin

Benjamin: to the Rhythm of Theological Concepts

Altizer: Presence in Absence.

Altizer, My Theological Contemporary.

Altizer and Incarnation.

Nothing whatsoever finally distinguishes death and life or crucifixion and resurrection, for crucifixion and resurrection are one event, and are that one event which is the full and final incarnation …

Thinking the Absolute Edge Between Altizer and Leahy.

Altizer and the Christian Epic Tradition.

Afterthinking Altizer: Redemption and the Divine Recusal.

The Yes of Nietzsche and Hegel in Altizer

Altizer’s Apocalyptic Jesus.

Apocalypticism as Political Theology.

Divine Revelation in the Literal Expression.

Altizer and Deleuze: Material Metaphysics for Disastrous Times.

horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-gavin-hurley

Catholic horror—horror fiction that integrates Catholic perspectives into the fiction itself—is often be seen by Catholics to be incompatible with the mission

Review – Genealogies Of Mahayana Buddhism (Ananda Abeysekara)

Joseph Walser, Genealogies of Mahāyāna Buddhism: Emptiness, Power, and the Question of Origin. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 2018. 288 pages. IBSN: 978-1-13-895556-1.

From The Gift Of Mortality To The Name Of God (Jakob Helmut Deibl)

The following is a continuation of a series of articles corresponding to chapters of the book Preis der Sterblichkeit: Christentum und Neuer Humanismus

Christianity As A New Humanism – Historical, Theological, And Philosophical Reflections On The Bible, Hegel, And Robert Musil, Part 4 (Kurt Appel)

The Irreducible (Jean-Luc Marion)

Of that which we cannot speak, must we remain silent? Probably—especially if we understand why we cannot say anything about it, and have good reason for not

speaking-of-gods-presence-as-non-contrastive-transcendent-distinction-joyce-konigsburg

To speak or not to speak of God is an important yet rather uncomfortable question that participants encounter during interreligious and interdisciplinary

Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 2 (Roger 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

Fetishism And The Erasure Of Identity, Part 1 (Roger 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

kenosis-emancipation-pastness-reflections-from-a-jew-part-2-sarah-pessin

Emphasized in a temporalized modality, and bringing together elements of our phenomenological and political reflections above, we may specifically unpack the

kenosis-emancipation-pastness-reflections-from-a-jew-part-1-sarah-pessin

The following is the first of a two-part installment. This article can also be downloaded in PDF format from the Spring 2019 issue (Vol. 18, No 18, No.

The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 3 (Gavin Hyman)

The following is the last installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. The second one can be found here. As Thomas A As Thomas A.

The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 2 (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

The “New Hegel” And The Question Of God, Part 1 (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

from-kant-to-holderlin-poetry-and-religion-in-the-wake-of-philosophical-aesthetics-part-3-jakob-deibl-2

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

from-kant-to-holderlin-poetry-and-religion-in-the-wake-of-philosophical-aesthetics-part-3-jakob-deibl

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first one can be found here. Translated by Philipp Schlögl Translated by Philipp Schlögl.

Call For Papers – Special Issue On Walter Benjamin And Religion

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

from-kant-to-holderlin-poetry-and-religion-in-the-wake-of-philosophical-aesthetics

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

jonathan-edwards-and-the-vegan-elect-an-unconventional-calvinist-reading-part-1

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

God And Salvation, Lecture 8 (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

God As Person and Trinity, Lecture 7 (Johannes Zachhuber)

The following is the seventh lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The possibility that God is person has often been

God And Language, Lecture 6 (Johannes Zachhuber)

The following is the sixth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. I started the last couple of lectures with elaborate

damn-it-hes-an-injun-christian-murder-colonial-wealth-and-tanned-human-skin-part-2-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first installation can be found here. The article in full originally appeared in The New Polis in

damn-it-hes-an-injun-christian-murder-colonial-wealth-and-tanned-human-skin-tink-tinker-wazhazhe-udsethe-part-1

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

Review – The Enigmatic Absolute (Stanimir Panayotov)

*Joshua Ramey and Matthew S. Haar Farris (Eds.), Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: The Enigmatic Absolute 299 pages.

Review – Performance Apophatics (John Matthew Allison)

*Claire Maria Chambers. Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology: Performance Apophatics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Hardback Hardback. It highlights

Mischief, Idolatry, and the Demonic: Toward a Hermeneutic of Play.

Spaced and Placed: Hetero-‘Topic’ Interpretations of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Jonathan Edwards and the Vegan Elect: an Unconventional Calvinist Reading.

Of the of: Genre, Generation, and the Continental Philosophy of Religion.

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Towards a New Comparative Methodology in Religious Studies.

Religion and Mental Health : the Therapeutic Value of the Teachings of Jesus.

Author Note: The authors of this article take the position that the Judeo-Christian heritage is dominated by the teachings of Jesus. Consequently, all Christian belief systems reflect similar ideas ab…

Normative Encounters: a Radical Proposal for Philosophy of Religion.

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A Note on Pre-Positions: Methodology in the Continental Philosophy of Religion.

Is Academic Theology an Answer to the Problem of Philosophy of Religion?

Toward Decolonizing Philosophy of Religion: Thinking Heretically with African Indigenous Religions.

Transcendental Frustration: a Critical Re-Evaluation of the Hegelian Legacy for Philosophy of Religion.

From Kant to HÖLderlin: Poetry and Religion in the Wake of Philosophical Aesthetics.

Something to Do with a Girl Named Marla: Eros and Gender in Fincher’s Fight Club.

“A Language in Which to Think of the World” – Animism, Indigenous Traditions, and the Deprovincialization of Philosophy of Religion.

Lutheran Theology and Postmodern Philosophy.

John the Possibilizer: the Promise of a Kearnian Baptismal Hermeneutic.

If the Qur’an Is God’s Speech, How Does God Speak? Divine Speaking in Contemporary Muslim Discourse.

Admitting a Certain Fear of ŽIŽEk’s Theology: a Modest Plea for a Deleuzian Reading of the Death of God.

Admitting a Certain Fear of ŽIŽEk’s Theology: a Modest Plea for a Deleuzian Reading of the Death of God.

Kenosis, Emancipation, Pastness: Reflections from a Jew.

How to Avoid the God Who Chooses: Denials.

Spring in Italy: Anna Karenina and the God Who May Be.

Speaking God’s Presence and Absence as Non-Contrastive Transcendent Distinction

From Christology to Political Theology.

Beyond Religious Ideas: the Legacy of Max Weber in Critical Theory and Critical Religion.

New Religions in Brazil: a Game Between Relativism and Fundamentalism.

Fetish and the Erasure of Indigeneity

Prayer After the Death of God.

Divine Absence as Divine Presence.

God’s Absence as Textual Presence: the Radical (Literary) Theology of Northrop Frye.

The Dangers of Dealing with Derrida: Revisiting the Caputo-HÄGglund Debate on The

Review – Decolonizing Dialectics (Josiah Solis)

*Ciccariello-Maher, George. Decolonizing Dialectics. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2017. 256 pages. ISBN-10: 0822362430 ISBN-10: 0822362430. It highlights

God and History, Lecture 5 (Johannes Zachhuber)

The following is the fifth lecture in an eight-lecture series. The most recent one can be found here. The existentialist approach you heard about last week

Inventing Afterlives – Review (Camille Grace Leon Angelo)

Janes, Regina M. Inventing Afterlives: The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Life After Death. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2018. 384 pages 384 pages.

religion-and-mental-health-the-therapuetic-value-of-the-teachings-of-jesus-part-2-thomas-roberts-and-delbert-hayden

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