TY - BOOK AU - Raschke,Carl A. TI - Postmodernism and the revolution in religious theory: toward a semiotics of the event T2 - Studies in religion and culture SN - 9780813933085 (electronic bk.) AV - BL65.P73 R37 2012eb U1 - 210 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Derrida, Jacques. KW - Badiou, Alain. KW - Žižek, Slavoj. KW - Postmodernism KW - Religious aspects KW - Semiotics KW - RELIGION / Philosophy KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=490367 ER -