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Postmodernism and the revolution in religious theory [electronic resource] : toward a semiotics of the event / Carl Raschke.

By: Series: Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)Publication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (x, 235 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780813933085 (electronic bk.)
  • 0813933080 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Postmodernism and the revolution in religious theory.DDC classification:
  • 210 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.P73 R37 2012eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Religion and the semiotic revolution -- Theory and the Deus evanescens: can there truly be a "science" of religion? -- Postmodernism and the return of the "religious" -- Radical religion in the "desert of the real" -- Bataille and Altizer: the sacrificial background of postmodern religious theory -- Levinas and the final à-dieu to theology -- Deleuze and nomadology -- Žižek and the failure of the subject -- Badiou and the prospects for theory -- Conclusion: toward a revival of religious theory.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religion and the semiotic revolution -- Theory and the Deus evanescens: can there truly be a "science" of religion? -- Postmodernism and the return of the "religious" -- Radical religion in the "desert of the real" -- Bataille and Altizer: the sacrificial background of postmodern religious theory -- Levinas and the final à-dieu to theology -- Deleuze and nomadology -- Žižek and the failure of the subject -- Badiou and the prospects for theory -- Conclusion: toward a revival of religious theory.

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