Why have religious philosophers and theologians been drawn to phenomenology in particular? The essays in this forum suggest several answers…
Experience between the secular and the divine: Conclusion
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Law, love, phenomenology: Levinas between Lyotard and Marion
In the 1990s, Dominique Janicaud denounced authors such as Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion for engineering a "theological turn" in…
Abstraction and reduction, with continual reference to Hilma af Klint
How might the methodological orientation of phenomenology be compared to formally focused movements in other modernist domains where relations between…
William James, phenomenology, and the embodiment of religious experience
What I will show in the following is the ways in which, because James relies on narrative accounts of religious…
Edith Stein and the experience of God
Edith Stein (1891–1942), later Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, was an original phenomenologist and an early student of Edmund…
Experience between the secular and the divine
The strange and often contradictory ways that phenomenology has been woven into and through diverse religious traditions are the subject…
Making up people
Several decades ago in an essay entitled “Making Up People,” the Canadian philosopher Ian Hacking wrote that, “if new modes…
Law’s Religion—An introduction
In Theory From the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa, Jean and John Comaroff consider the juridification of…
Malediction, exorcism, and evil
It is best to begin by considering the word malediction in the simple sense of speaking evil or evil-saying. The…
The politics of the atonement
To grasp the deep architecture of the political today, therefore, is to venture into the theological domains of Christology and…