Welcome to the Religion and Theory Reading Group.

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Christian Moderns:
Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter
by Webb Keane

  • Introduction
  • Religion's Reach
  • Beliefs, Words, and Selves

Scandalous Knowledge:
Science, Truth and the Human
by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

  • Introduction: Scandals of Knowledge
  • Pre-Post-Modern Relativism
  • Disciplinary Cultures and Tribal Warfare: The Sciences and the Humanities Today
  • Super Natural Science: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology

What Color Is the Sacred?
by Michael Taussig

"They Licked the Platter Clean":
On the Co-Dependency of the Religious and the Secular
by Russell T. McCutcheon

Foucault 2.0
by Eric Paras

  • Introduction: Into the Archive
  • Surface Effects: Foucault, Sartre, and the Critique of the Subject
  • Restructuring: Foucault and the Genealogical Turn
  • Planetary Forces: Foucault, Iran, and the Nouveaux Philosophes

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