It is the mission of this journal to engage in current debates that shape our understanding of cultural theory and religious studies, past, present, and future. The following "manifestoes" offer critical responses to recent issues in the field of religious studies – methodology, history, theory, and politics.

Weak Theology.
By Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College.

Long Time Coming: Theology, Methodology, Cultural Theory.
By Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas.

Theory Fever: Archivalism and the Future of Religious Studies.
By Victor E. Taylor, York College of Pennsylvania.

Radical Islam and the Specter of the Desert – otherwise, the Call of Theory.
By Carl Raschke, University of Denver.

Against Religion ("Without Religion"): A New Rationalist Reply to John D. Caputo's On Religion.
By Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University.

Love Among the Deconstructibles: A Response to Gregg Lambert.
By John D. Caputo, Villanova University.

The Return of the Prophet: A Dialogue.
Edited by Philip Goodchild, University of Nottingham.

Dialectic of the Past / Disjuncture of the Future: Derrida and Benjamin on the Concept of Messianism.
By Owen Ware, University of Victoria.

"A Philosophy and Theology of Hyperinflation": Walter Benjamin, Weimar and the New Thinking.
By Nikolas Lambrianou, Birkbeck, University of London.

Religion and Media by Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber, eds.
Book Profile by Melissa Conroy, Syracuse University.

Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place by Jon Pahl.
Book Profile by Christopher D. Rodkey, Drew University.

Capitalism and Religion.
Review by Lars Iyer, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Locating and Relocating the Willful Self: A Review of Michael Hanby's Augustine and Modernity.
Review by Todd C. Ream, Baylor University.

Science and Wisdom.
Review by Eric Weislogel, Metanexus Institute.

Subtractive Theology: Why Should a Marxist Learn to Count to Zero?
Review by Jared Woodard, University of Edinburgh.