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Strange Wonder confronts Western philosophy's ambivalent relationship to the Platonic "wonder" that reveals the strangeness of the everyday. On the one hand, this wonder is said to be the origin of all philosophy. On the other hand, it is associated with a kind of ignorance that ought to be extingui... More

"Multiverse" cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is now being considered as a scientific hypothesis-with different models emerging from cosmology, quantum mechanics, and string ... More

Pantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical—that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the universe itself. From a monotheistic perspective, this notion is irremediably heretical since it suggests divinity might be material, mutable, and multiple. Since t... More

A revealing look at the parallel mythologies behind the colonization of Earth and space—and a bold vision for a more equitable, responsible future both on and beyond our planet.   As environmental, political, and public health crises multiply on Earth, we are also at the dawn of a new space race i... More

A revealing look at the parallel mythologies behind the colonization of Earth and space—and a bold vision for a more equitable, responsible future both on and beyond our planet.   As environmental, political, and public health crises multiply on Earth, we are also at the dawn of a new space race i... More

Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate “materiaphobically.” Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world “He” created. Li... More

Trauma theory has become a burgeoning site of research in recent decades, often demanding interdisciplinary reflections on trauma as a phenomenon that defies claims of disciplinary ownership. But while this scholarship has always been challenged by the temporal, affective, and corporeal dimensions o... More

The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of religion, explore the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological.  Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been adva... More

The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of religion, explore the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological.  Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been adva... More

The three essays in Image, written by leading philosophers of religion, explore the modern power of the visual at the intersection of the human and the technological.  Modern life is steeped in images, image-making, and attempts to control the world through vision. Mastery of images has been adva... More

Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the social and cultural construction of time, memory,... More