The human drama has often been told as a dynamic of thoughts and reasons driving history forward. But this misses…
Donovan Schaefer
Donovan O. Schaefer is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania, which he joined in 2017 after three years as a lecturer at the University of Oxford. His first book, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power (Duke University Press, 2015) considered the relevance of affect theory for questions of religion, politics, and subjectivity.
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Credulity, or Science as an intoxication
February 22, 2019
[Emily] Ogden intends to “accentuate the negative,” so the train of questions I have—questions that view science in a more…
Material mourning in the secular sculpture garden
March 2, 2018
The memorialization of Soviet soldiers in Berlin was not simply a functional political tactic; it was an expression of national…