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Living in the World by Dying to the Self: Swami Vivekananda’s Modernist Reconfigurations of a Premodern Vedāntic Dialectic
This article is an exploration of the dialectic of this-worldly activism and the practice of self-effacement in Swami Vivekananda’s discourses. He...
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Quarks of Consciousness and the Representation of the Rose: Philosophy of Science Meets the Vaiśeṣika-Vaibhāṣika-Vijñaptimātra Dialectic in Vasubandhu’s Viṃśikā
The representation of a rose varies considerably across philosophical, religious, and scientific schools of thought. While many would suggest that a...
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A Literary Reception of Karl Barth’s Römerbrief: On Barthianism in John Updike’s Roger’s Version
American author John Hoyer Updike (1932–2009) once said, “Karl Barth was my hero among theologians.” Updike found Barth’s early writings from Der...
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Conclusion: The Roots and the Sap
In contemporary debate and policy, there is an observable nationalization of secularism that is being deployed within what may seem, at first sight,...
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Standing Before God in Joy and Fear
Upon encountering the divine presence, humans experience the tension between terror and ecstasy. Medieval Jewish philosopher, Joseph Albo addresses...
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Dual Covenants and Jewish Identity
This chapter begins with an overview of biblical covenants and the way Jewish tradition has viewed them, as well as the broader Ancient Near Eastern...
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Holiness Ethic, Separatism, and the Politics of Trans-Americas Pentecostalism
This chapter examines the dialectic between the initial holiness ethic of the Christian Congregation, Christian Assembly, and Brazilian Assemblies of...
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Israel-Diaspora Relations: Latin American Continuities and Discontinuities
Both an ethno-national diasporic nature and a transnational trajectory shaped the Jewish condition worldwide and specifically in Latin America....
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A Review of “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya”
The reviewed book, titled “The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya” (Raveh, D., & Coquereau-Saouma, E. (Eds.).
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The Agonistic Poetics of Dāsya-bhāva: the Soteriological Confrontation Between Deity and Devotee
The devotional literatures across the Hindu bhakti traditions of medieval India are shaped by distinctive styles of affective responses to the divine...
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Nature in Focus For Various Purposes—Why a Notion of Creation Is Needed for Theological Anthropology
The Anthropocene impacts all realms of human experience. It is therefore sha** the specific way in which we presently experience the world—a world...
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The Positive Role of Culture in Barth and Tillich’s Discussion of the Paradox in 1923
Paul Tillich and Karl Barth discuss their theological approaches in Theologische Blätter at the beginning of the twentieth century. Both theologians...
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Introduction
This chapter outlines the conversion crisis and why a solution based on Jewish law is required to solve this problem that Jewish law faces. A brief...
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Introduction: A Deconstructive Approach to Heidegger. Ontology and Critical Theory
A deconstructive analysis of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism and the possibility of develo** deconstruction into a real (Jewish) ontology are two...
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The Pleasures of Baroque: An Epilogue on Late Lacan
In this chapter, I argue that the close connection between psychoanalytical ethics and ethics in the Judeo-Christian tradition is the cultural...
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Karl Barth’s Performative Theology: Context and Rhetoric in Der Römerbrief 1922
Karl Barth’s Der Römerbrief from 1922 is often interpreted as a dualistic negation of everything that has to do with human culture, experience,...
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The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, Judaism, and Christianity: Reading Seminar VII
This chapter discusses the way Lacan examines, in Seminar VII: “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis”, the relation between what he defines as “The ethics of...
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Indigenous Inculturation: A Hermeneutics of Serendipity
In the postcolonial aftermath, Filipinos endeavored to uphold their cultural identity and historical agency while seeking religious synthesis with...
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Spectres of Violence and Landscapes of Peace: Imagining the Religious Other in Patterns of Hindu Modernity
Across multiple Hindu traditions, the motifs of violence and peace have been modulated both by scriptural templates and by context-specific factors....