Tag: violence

11 posts

Cosmic Horror Spellcasting for Violence.

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May 4, 2026

the-unbroken-middle-overcoming-the-empty-sacrifices-of-modernity-with-gillian-rose-and-paul-michael-c-raubach

In her 1992 masterpiece, The Broken Middle, the philosopher Gillian Rose explored what she saw as a baleful crisis of ethics in modern political discourse

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Nov 4, 2021

naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-part-2-james-e-willis-iii

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. A philosophy of finite human time is one way to read Martin Hägglund’s recent

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May 8, 2020

naming-the-darkness-spiritual-violence-and-radical-incompleteness-resituating-a-political-theology-james-e-willis-iii

The Death of God theological movement of the mid-twentieth century serves as a productive starting place to consider spiritual violence in our time, or the

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May 1, 2020

horror-fiction-and-catholic-theology-a-rhetorical-synthesis-part-2-gavin-hurley

The following is the second of a two-part-series. The first can be read here. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science

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Jan 5, 2020

Violence and Religion, or Between Tyranny and Care.

Often the discussion of religious violence, as with violence in general, tends to be guided by the question of the justification of violence as a means. Theological variants of just war theory are a case in point. So for example Aquinas, drawing on Augustine, develops a conception of a

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Dec 31, 2017

framing-religious-conflict-and-violence-insights-from-historical-institutionalism-part-2-vivek-swaroop-sharma

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. There are two important qualifications to the following

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Sep 22, 2017

framing-religious-conflict-and-violence-insights-from-historical-institutionalism-part-1-vivek-swaroop-sharma

Killing hundreds of people in the name of “cow protection” would, at first glance, appear to be a headline drawn from a Monty Python skit It highlights

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Sep 12, 2017

Religion, Secularity, Gender, Violence, & Death.

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Dec 31, 2016

In the Beginning Was the Murder: Destruction of Nature and Interhuman Violence in Adorno’s Critique of Culture

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Dec 31, 2004

The Return to Ritual: Violence and Art in the Media Age

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Dec 31, 2002