Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion

by Shults, F. LeRon; Powell-Jones, Lindsay; Savat, David; Buchanan, Ian; Svirsky, Marcelo

• ISBN13: 9781474266895
• ISBN10: 1474266894
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-09-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This volume brings together some of the leading voices in the field of Deleuze studies to explore – and practice – a variety of approaches to the schizoanalysis of religion. The authors share an enthusiasm for applying Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalytic project to “religion,” but they display significantly different ways of carrying out its creative and destructive tasks. As a whole, the book addresses the relevance of Deleuze for contemporary developments in political theology, liberation theology, Christian doctrine, and the recent growth of interest in spirituality and atheism.

Opening up new lines of flight for Deleuze studies, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion makes rhizomic connections that will be of interest to scholars in other fields including theology, psychology of religion, philosophy of religion and the history and practice of Western esotericism.

Author Biography

Lindsay Powell-Jones is completing her PhD in the School of Modern Languages, Cardiff University. Her thesis is on Gilles Deleuze and the films of Andrei Tarkovsky.

F. LeRon Shults is professor of theology and philosophy at the Institute for Religion, Philosophy and History, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, and senior research fellow at the Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion, Boston University, USA. He is the author of 13 books including Godless: Atheism, Apologetics and the Biocultural Study of Religion (Bloomsbury, 2017) and over 60 scientific and philosophical articles.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction, Lindsay Powell-Jones, Cardiff University, UK
1. Deleuze's Theory of Religion, Brent Adkins, Roanoke College, USA
2. Schizoanalysis of the Eucharist: From Oedipal Repetition to Liberating Event, Kristien Justaert, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
3. Divine Life: Difference, Becoming, and the Trinity, Christopher Ben Simpson, Lincoln Christian University, USA
4. Deleuze and Guattari's Machinic Animism, Joshua Ramey, Grinnell College, USA
5. The Apocalyptic Unconscious: Schizoanalysis as Political Theology, Aidan Tynan, Cardiff University, UK
6. The Bricolage of Images: Constructing the Cartographies of the Unconscious, Inna Semetsky, Columbia University, USA
7. Divine Differentials: The Metaphysics of Gilles Deleuze and its Significance for Contemporary Theologies, Austin Roberts, Drew University, USA
8. The Atheist Machine, F. LeRon Shults, University of Agder, Norway

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