Raschke, Carl A.

Postmodernism and the revolution in religious theory toward a semiotics of the event / [electronic resource] : Carl Raschke. - Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (x, 235 p.) - Studies in religion and culture . - Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.) .

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.

9780813933085 (electronic bk.) 0813933080 (electronic bk.)


Derrida, Jacques.
Badiou, Alain.
Žižek, Slavoj.


Postmodernism--Religious aspects.
Semiotics--Religious aspects.
RELIGION / Philosophy


Electronic books.

BL65.P73 / R37 2012eb

210