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New Papers and Directions3/19/2007 16:08:25I haven't written in a while: this is why. I've been working hard to finish two papers for my courses this quarter and trying to figure out what they mean for the bigger picture. You can read them on the Papers page. The first is called "Hegel's Proof and the Experience of God," and is about how Hegel's treatment of the proofs for the existence of God operates as a theory of religious experience. The second is called "Neoliberal Political Economy and the Religious Revival" and is a sociological attempt to link the rise of neoliberal economics to the revival of politicized religion in recent decades. Clearly the two have not a whole lot to do with each other, and it is making me wonder what is next, and where we are going. Who knows? Perhaps it is best to leave it at Nietzsche's eternal recurrence: we will never step beyond the meaninglessness of every moment, which is a moment of becoming. My best guess is to say that I am working on a summary and integration of the different approaches to the study of religion. It is toward a better common language for talking about religion. I have been thinking some about Rawlsian consensuses, and that may be useful. And also, in my occasional loneliness, I think about animals and want to understand them better in order to help us understand ourselves. |
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