Postmodernism and the revolution in religious theory
Subtitle: toward a semiotics of the event
By: Carl Raschke
Series: Studies in religion and culture
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813933061; 9780813933078; 9780813933085
Subjects: Religious aspects; Postmodernism; Semiotics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Religion and the semiotic revolution; title: Theory and the Deus evanescens: can there truly be a "science" of religion?; title: Postmodernism and the return of the "religious"; title: Radical religion in the "desert of the real"; title: Bataille and Altizer: the sacrificial background of postmodern religious theory; title: Levinas and the final à-dieu to theology; title: Deleuze and nomadology; title: Žižek and the failure of the subject; title: Badiou and the prospects for theory; title: Conclusion: toward a revival of religious theory.