Table of Contents

00 Weak Theology

By Jeffrey W Robbins (Lebanon Valley College, Le Moyne College)

01 Long Time Coming: Theology, Methodology, Cultural Theory

By Clayton Crockett (University of Central Arkansas, Wesley College, College of William and Mary)

02 Theory Fever: Archivalism and the Future of Religious Studies

By Victor Taylor (Independent Scholar)

03 Radical Islam and the Spectre of the Desert - Otherwise, the Call of Theory

By Carl A. Raschke (University of Denver)

04 Against Religion (‘without Religion’): a New Rationalist Reply to John D. Caputo’s on Religion

By Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University)

05 Love Among the Deconstructibles: a Response to Gregg Lambert

By John D Caputo (Syracuse University, Villanova Unive rsity)

06 The Return of the Prophet: a Dialogue

By Richard Crudhington ; Fiona Cranny ; Sandra Burnup ; Tom Eagle ; David Dandy ; Charlotte Merriman ; Michael Cocksworth ; Philip Goodchild (University of Nottingham)

07 Dialectic of the Past / Disjuncture of the Future: Derrida and Benjamin on the Concept of Messianism

By Owen Ware (University of Victoria)

08 ‘A Philosophy and Theology of Hyperinflation’: Walter Benjamin, Weimar and the New Thinking

By Nikolas Lambrianou (Birkbeck, University of London)

09 Religion and Media

By Melissa Conroy (Muskingum University, Syracuse University)

10 Shopping Malls and Other Sacred Spaces: Putting God in Place

By Christopher D Rodkey

11 Capitalism and Religion: the Price of Piety

By Lars Iyer (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

12 Augustine and Modernity

By Todd Ream (Baylor University)

13 Science and Wisdom

By Eric Weislogel (Metanexus Institute)

14 The Puppet and the Dwarf: the Perverse Core of Christianity

By Jared Woodard (Fordham University, University of Edinburgh)