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.