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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Now that we know the Norwegian killer was a Christian and a white male, which storyline are we more likely to see in the media?
Option one: Lots of stories asking, “Is Christianity inherently violent? Is Christianity compatible with democracy and civil society?” Option two: Lots of descriptions of the killer’s pathological tendencies, violent inclinations, and eccentric habits, showing that he was a dangerous madman … Continue reading
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More than Belief: An Interview with Manuel A. Vásquez (Part 3)
(This is the final part of a 3 part interview with Manuel A. Vásquez about his recent book, More than Belief; see part 1 here and part 2 here.) CM: Here’s a second critical question. I am open-minded about cognitive science … Continue reading
Posted in Craig Martin, Interviews, Religion and Theory, Theory and Method
Tagged Animism, Augustine, Biological Evolution, Brazil, Cognitive Science, Colin McGinn, Cristina Rocha, Descartes, Doctrinal Mode of Religiosity, Epistemology, Evan Thompson, Francisco Varela, Genetics, Global Diaspora, Harvey Whitehouse, Heidegger, Husserl, Imagistic Mode of Religiosity, Inter-disciplinarity, Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration, Manuel A. Vásquez, Merleau-Ponty, More than Belief:, Networks, Neurophenomenology, Neuroscience, Nietzsche, Ontology, Oxford University Press, Pentacostalism, Representation, Semiotic Reductionism, Social Constructionism, Spinoza, Textualism
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More than Belief: An Interview with Manuel A. Vásquez (Part 2)
(This is part 2 of a 3 part interview with Manuel A. Vásquez about his recent book, More than Belief; see part 1 here.) Craig Martin: As someone who is similarly theory-minded, I want to introduce theory at the undergraduate … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnosticism, Anti-essentialism, Charles Taylor, Civil Religion in America, Deleuze, Descartes, Durkheim, Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Embodiment, Essentialism, Freud, Graduate Education, Immanent Frame, Joseph Margolis, Manuel Vásquez, Methodological Agnosticism, More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion, Nietzsche, Ontology, Race, Reductionism, Reductionist Theories, Robert Bellah, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Totem and Taboo, University of Florida, Weber
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More than Belief: An Interview with Manuel A. Vásquez (Part 1)
Manuel A. Vásquez is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Florida and author and editor of several books, including the award-winning The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 1998), Globalizing … Continue reading
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Tagged Bourdieu, Cultural Studies, Daniel Pals, Eight Theories of Religion, El Salvador, Feminism, Frankfurt School, Globalization, Globalizing the Sacred, Gramsci, Hegel, Heidegger, Husserl, Jesuits, Kant, Latin America, Living "Illegal": The Human Face of Unauthorized Immigration, Manuel A. Vásquez, Marx, Mircea Eliade, More than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion, Phenomenology, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Rudolph Otto, The Brazilian Popular Church and the Crisis of Modernity, Theories of Religion, van der Leeuw
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