Pan-technology in and out of Lockdown
A thinking has developed, following the Frankfurt School proponents of Critical Theory, that technology has been instrumental in “replacing” religion. Just as Walter Benjamin had famously claimed that...
View ArticleCovid19 and other machines
by Alison Jasper A protestor wears a mask honoring Breonna Taylor in downtown Louisville, Kentucky on 1 June 2020. Photograph: Amy Harris/Rex/Shutterstock One of Deleuze and Guattari’s most...
View ArticleOn Making a Critical Shift
Russell T. McCutcheonUniversity of Alabama Anyone familiar with our Department at the University of Alabama may know that we have a pretty active social media presence, among which is a Facebook group...
View ArticleNew Book out: Critical Religion Reader!
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View Article“Walk to Buchenwald”– Thoughts on Collective Mourning
By Isabella Schwaderer An approximately two-hour walk from Weimar’s railway station takes you to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Thousands of victims of the Nazi regime had to walk this way. On 16...
View ArticleThe Contagion of White Christian Libertarianism and America’s Viral President
By Brian Nail As many Americans grow increasingly optimistic about the possibility that Trump will soon be voted out of office, it is worth considering the more widespread set of political and...
View ArticlePolitics of Love: Secularism, Religion, and Love as a Political Discourse
By Ting Guo* “The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love”—indeed, as Che Guevara most famously put it, love is a powerful language for not only revolutions, but also politics. Love...
View ArticleLogic in Magic, and Human Cognition: Towards a new theory
By Zenko Takayama[1] Phenomena that religious scholars of the past could unreservedly describe as “magical” are still occurring all the time, even now. For example, under the influence of COVID-19,...
View ArticleButler, gender performativity and religion
The gendered dimension of the ‘good religion’/‘bad religion’ narrative and its racial implications By Rabea Khan What does the modern category ‘religion’ have to do with Judith Butler’s theory on...
View ArticleWhen Regular PCR Tests Become Penance: Agamben, Biopolitics and Critical...
By GAO, Zhe “In the name of science Vs in the name of religion” — The Chinese team wore masks while the Iran team wore hijabs in the first set of their Asian Cup encounter on Aug. 25, 2022 ©GETTY...
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