“The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” Program
The program for the 4th Syracuse Postmodernism, Culture and Religion conference, "The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion" is now available at the conference website. You can also download a pdf of the program. Read More
CFP: Psychology and the Other
Psychology and the Other Conference 2011October 1st – 3rdCambridge, MA Plenary AddressesJeffrey Bloechl, Ph.D., Boston CollegeMark Freeman, Ph.D., College of the Holy CrossLynne Layton, Ph.D., Harvard Medical SchoolStuart A. Pizer, Ph.D., ABPP, Harvard Medical School Erich Fromm bemoaned the divorce of psychology from philosophical and religious traditions and, in many ways, this... Read More
Expositions: Zizek and Milbank
My friend and colleague Gregory Hoskins is editing an interdisciplinary journal called Expositions. He and the journal recently hosted a roundtable discussion about the Zizek/Milbank interchange. You can find the discussion here. Contributors include Jeffrey Robbins, Brian Robinette, Frederiek Depoortere, Clayton Crockett, and Adam Kotsko. You can find a link to... Read More
A Call for Guest Posts: Violence and Christian Holy Writ
The relation between violence and the Christian religion or the role of violence in Christianity is of course not a new problem. However, like other difficult, controversial, and incredibly important issues, it is often left unaddressed or given scant attention in Christian circles including Christian seminaries. Thankfully, at least some modern and postmodern theologians,... Read More
Seminar: “From Worldview to Worship: The Liturgical Turn in Cultural Theory”
Next summer (June 20-July 8, 2011) I'll be directing a 3-week seminar for scholars and advanced doctoral students, as well as select practitioners, under the auspices of the Seminars in Christian Scholarship at Christian College. Full information for applicants is available at their website. DESCRIPTION "Religion” has received increased attention from... Read More
Specters of Rage in an Age of Change – Sloterdijk and the “End” of the Postmodern
Multiple Specters Perhaps we can adapt just one more time Marx's well-known and overadapted opening to The Communist Manifesto that a "specter is stalking" us. It was this same "specter" that Derrida back in the mid-1980s adapted in Specters of Marx to rejuvenate what by then was his already aging project of deconstruction to produce first the "political",... Read More
CFP: The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion (Syracuse)
Postmodernism, Culture and Religion 4“The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” Syracuse University | April 7-9, 2011 Plenary Speakers: JOHN D. CAPUTOWatson Professor of Religion and PhilosophySyracuse University (http://religion.syr.edu/Caputo.html) PHILIP GOODCHILDProfessor of Theology and Religious StudiesUniversity of Nottingham (UK) (http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Theology/People/philip.goodchild) CATHERINE... Read More
CFP: Religion and Modernity in a Secular City
Religion and Modernity in a Secular CityKatholische Akademie in Berlin16 – 18 September 2010 Call for Papers: Writing from Vichy, France in early 1940, Walter Benjamin articulated what many theologians secretly feared in his Über den Begriff der Geschichte by portraying theology as the hunchback that must keep out of sight. However, Slavoj Žižek has recently suggested... Read More
CFP: Continental Philosophy of Religion Conference @ Oxford
15th Biennial Conference of the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (ISRLC), at St Catherine's College, University of Oxford, England, 23-26 September 2010 http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc2329/index.html A panel on "Continental Philosophy of Religion" is to be organized for this conference. The panel invites submissions which consider the turn to... Read More
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Current discussions in the church—from emergent “postmodern” congregations to mainline “missional” congregations—are increasingly grappling with philosophical and theoretical questions related to postmodernity. In fact, it could be argued that developments in postmodern theory (especially questions of “post-foundationalist” epistemologies) have contributed to the... Read More
