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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785931503321

Autore

Raschke Carl A

Titolo

Postmodernism and the revolution in religious theory [[electronic resource] ] : toward a semiotics of the event / / Carl Raschke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-63120-2

0-8139-3308-0

9786613943651

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Studies in religion and culture

Disciplina

210

Soggetti

Postmodernism - Religious aspects

Semiotics - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Religion and the semiotic revolution -- Theory and the Deus evanescens: can there truly be a "science" of religion? -- Postmodernism and the return of the "religious" -- Radical religion in the "desert of the real" -- Bataille and Altizer: the sacrificial background of postmodern religious theory -- Levinas and the final à-dieu to theology -- Deleuze and nomadology -- Žižek and the failure of the subject -- Badiou and the prospects for theory -- Conclusion: toward a revival of religious theory.