Next week we’re going to launch a multi-week symposium on Aaron Simmons’ new book, God and the Other: Ethics and Politics After the Theological Turn. Our contributors will be Christina Smerick (Greenville College), Stephen Minister (Augustana College), and Nick Trakakis (Australian Catholic University). We’ll roll out one engagement per week, with opportunity for comment and […]
Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology 2012 Conference: Creation, Creatureliness, and Creativity: The Human Place in the Natural World April 20-22, 2012 | Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles Keynote Speakers: Bruce Foltz (Eckerd College) Janet Martin Soskice (Cambridge University) Norman Wirzba (Duke Divinity School) CALL FOR PAPERS SCPT’s 2012 conference takes today’s ecological crises as […]
UPDATE: Thanks for your interest! My inbox overfloweth, so I’m closing this call for reviews. Reviewers will hear from me over the next few days. If you haven’t heard anything by this week, you were not selected. Watch for reviews of these to appear over the next couple of months. We’ll be sure to do […]
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.
Psychology and the Other Conference 2011 October 1st – 3rd Cambridge, MA Plenary Addresses Jeffrey Bloechl, Ph.D., Boston College Mark Freeman, Ph.D., College of the Holy Cross Lynne Layton, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School Stuart A. Pizer, Ph.D., ABPP, Harvard Medical School Erich Fromm bemoaned the divorce of psychology from philosophical and religious traditions and, in […]
Brett McCracken. Hipster Christianity: When Church and Cool Collide. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2010. 255 pages. $10.87 paperback (Amazon). Click here or on the image below to purchase Hipster Christianity from Amazon.com and help support The Other Journal. When I was a teenager, I was religiously devoted to freestyle BMX: flatland, street, vert, all of it. It […]
In this conversation, distinguished professors James K. A. Smith and James Davison Hunter discuss Hunter’s newest book, TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
By James K.A. Smith, Calvin College ABSTRACT In reply to Benson’s response, I agree that we should be seeking the dissolution of all enclaves in philosophy of religion—whether continental or analytic. But I continue to suggest that continental philosophy of religion bears special burdens in this respect. Read the article.