Publications

Carl A. Raschke

 

 


Books

  • Moral Action, God, and History in the Thought of Immanuel Kant. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1975.
  • Religion and the Human Image. Editor and co-author with Mark C. Taylor and James Kirk.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1976.
  • The Bursting of New Wineskins: Religion and Culture at the End of Affluence. Pittsburgh, PA: Pickwick Press, 1978.
  • The Alchemy of the Word. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979.  Republished with new introduction as The End of Theology. Denver: The Davies Group, 2000.
  • The Interruption of Eternity. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980.
  • Theological Thinking: An In-quiry. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1988.
  • Painted Black: From Drug Killings to Heavy Metal Music. New York: HarperSan Francisco, 1990. Paperback edition, Harper Collins, 1992.
  • Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body. State University of New York Press, 1995.
  • The Engendering God. Male and Female Faces of God. Co-authored with Susan D. Raschke. John Knox/Westminster, 1996.
  • The End of Theology. Denver CO: The Davies Group Publishers, 2000.
  • The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University. London: Routledge, 2002.
  • The Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity. Grand Rapids MI: Baker Books, 2004.

Books edited, or co-edited

  • Editor, Deconstruction and Theology. New York: Crossroads, 1982.
  • Editor, New Dimensions in Philosophical Theology. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982.
  • Co-editor with Edith Wyschogrod and David Crownfield,. Jacques Lacan and Theological Discourse. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989.
  • General Editor. Arator's De Actibus Apostolorum. John F. Makowski (editor and translator), J. L. Roberts, III (editor and translator). Atlanta: Scholars Press, Classics Series, 1988.
  • General Editor. Anthony Damico (translator),Martin S. Jaffee (essay and notes), Thomas Aquinas' Literal Exposition on Job: A Scriptural Commentary Concerning Providence. Atlanta: Scholars Press, Classics Series, 1989.
  • General Editor. A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations Jewish, Heathen, Mahometan, Christian, Ancient and Modern. Hannah Adams,Thomas Tweed (introduction). Atlanta: Scholars Press, Classics Series, 1992.
  • Co-editor. The Republic of Faith: The Search for Agreement Amid Diversity in American Religion. Denver CO: The Davies Group Publishers, 2002.
  • Co-editor. In God We Trust? Cultural Conflict and Consensus in Post 9/11 America.  Silverton CO: Aspen Academic Press, 2006.

Contributions to Books

  • "The Asian Invasion of American Religion: Creative Innovation or a New Gnosticism?", in David Griffin (ed.), Philosophy of Religion and Theology: 1973. Tallahassee, FL: American Academy of Religion, 1974.
  • "Kant on Theory and Practice," in Terence Ball (ed.), Political Theory and Praxis: New Perspectives. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.
  • "Common Sense and the Language of Transcendence: Four Models," in New Dimensions in the Humanities and Social Sciences, London: Bucknell University Press, 1977.
  • "Schopenhauer on the Delusion of Progress,' Schopenhauer Jahrbuch. 1977.
  • "Technology and Human Values," in Joseph Juhasz (ed.), The Grass Roots (Boulder, CO: University of Colorado Press, 1980). 
  • "Imagination, Infinity, and Intimacy," in Mark C. Taylor, Unfinished. JAAR Thematic Supplements, 1979.
  • "Revelation, the Poetic Imagination, and the Archaeology of the Imagination,' with Donna Gregory, in Charles Winquist, The Archaeology of the Imagination. JAAR Thematic Supplements, 1980.
  • "Religion and the Humanistic Society," in Al Koenig (ed.), The Humanistic Society. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981.
  • "Notes on Parareligious Movements," in Henry B. Clark (ed.), Freedom of Religion in America: Historical Roots, Philosophical Concepts, and Contemporary Problems. Los Angeles, CA: Center for the Study of the American Experience, Transaction Books, 1982.
  • "The Deconstruction of God," in Carl Raschke (ed.), Deconstruction and Theology. New York: Crossroads, 1982.
  • "The Image of the Beast: Theology and the Thought of Difference," in Carl Raschke (ed.) New Dimensions in Philosophical Theology. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982.
  • "On Rereading Romans 1-6, or Overcoming the Hermeneutics of Suspicion", in Ex Auditu, Vol. 1, 1985.
  • "New Age Economics" in Robert Basil, Not Necessarily the New Age: Critical Essays. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1988. "Jacques Lacan and the Magic of Desire", in Edith Wyschogrod, David Crownfield, and Carl Raschke (eds.), Jacques Lacan and Theological Discourse. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1989.
  • "Deconstructionism," in The New Handbook of Christian Theology. Nashville, TN: 1992.
  • "The Search for Authentic Selfhood", in Religions of the New Age. Louisville, KY: Westminster/ John Knox Press, 1993.
  • "Fire and Roses," in Phillipa Berry, Shadow of Spirit: Postmodern Culture and the Rebirth of Signification. Cambridge: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1993.
  • Preface and Afterword to Lessons from the Light by Gail Feldman (New York: Random House, 1993).
  • "The Humanities at the Core" in Robert Stevens et. al. (eds.), The Core and the Canon (Denton TX: University of North Texas Press, 1993).
  • "New Age Spirituality" in Peter Van Ness (ed.), Spirituality and the Secular Quest (New York: Crossroad Publishing, 1996).
  • "Mark Taylor," in The New Handbook of Christian Theology. Nashville, TN: 1996.
  • "God and Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Toward a Reconsideration of the Discipline of Religious Studies", in Janet Lacobs and Donald Capps, Religion, Society, and Psychoanalysis (New York: Harper Collins, 1997).
  • Six different articles in the Harper Dictionary of Religion, 1995.
  • Two different articles in the MacMillan Encyclopedia of American Religion, 2000.
  • "A-dieu to Derrida" in Clayton Crockett (ed.), Secular Theology (New York: Routledge, 2001).
  • "Indian Territory: Postmodern Theology Under the Sign of Freedom," in Graham Ward (ed.), Companion to Postmodern Theology (London: Blackwell, 2001).
  • Introduction, The Republic of Faith: The Search for Agreement Amid Diversity in American Religion. Edited by Carl Raschke and William Dean. Denver CO: The Davies Group Publishers, 2002.
  • Preface, The Surface of the Deep. Denver CO: Edited by Clayton Crockett and Jefferey Robbins. Denver CO: The Davies Group Publishers, 2002.
  • “9/11 and the Aftershocks: Rethinking American Secularism and Religious Pluralism”, in Alan Mittleman, ed., Religion as a Public Good (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
  • “Gordon Kaufman” in William Dean et. al. (eds.), Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 1860-1960. Continuum/Thoemmes Publishing, 2004.
  • “Thomas J. J. Altizer” in William Dean et. al. (eds.), Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, 1860-1960. Continuum/Thoemmes Publishing, 2004.
  • “The New Space of the University in the Digital Age,” in The Encyclopedia of Online Learning and Technology. The Idea Group, 2005.
  •  “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” in Christianity: The Complete Guide. Continuum, 2005.
  • "On Witches and Witchhunts: Violence, Counterviolence, and the Writing of Religion", in Clayton Crockett (ed.), Religion and Violence in a Secular World. University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Major Articles

  • "The Fantasies of the New Theologians." Christian Century (March 5, 1974).
  • "Meaning and Saying in Religion: Beyond Language Games." Harvard Theological Review (April 1974).
  • "Exorcising the Devils of Watergate," Christian Century (December 18, 1974).
  • "Demystifying Inflation", Christianity & Crisis (November 25, 1974).
  • "Utopian Consciousness and the Ethics of Scarcity," Dialog (Fall 1974).
  • "'Resource Scarcity' and the Ethics of Responsibility," Christianity & Crisis (July 22, 1974).
  • "The New Religions and the Rupture of Tradition," Iliff Review (July 22, 1974).
  • "The Religious Roots of Nonviolence," Network (March, 1974).
  • "The New Religious Revolution and the Rupture of Tradition," Iliff Review. (Spring 1974).
  • "The Relevance of Religious Studies, or What Do You Say to a Naked Guru?" Free (January 1974).
  • "The New Positive Thinkers," Theology Today (October 1976).
  • "Hermeneutics as Historical Process: Discourse, Text, and the Revolution of Symbols." Journal of the American Academy of Religion (March 1977).
  • "Paul Ricoeur and Religious Language: From Lebensform to the Work of Discourse." Iliff Review (Fall 1978).
  • "The Death of God the Father." Iliff Review (Spring 1978).
  • "The End of Theology." Journal of the American Academy of Religion (March 1978).
  • "Eschatology as the Revelation of the Interpersonal." Cross Currents (Spring 1979).
  • "Revelation, the Poetic Imagination, and the Archeology of the Feminine," Journal of the American Academy of Religion (December 1980). 
  • "The New Cosmology and the Overcoming of Metaphysics." Philosophy Today (Fall 1980).
  • "From Abstract to Personalistic Humanism." Contemporary Philosophy (Winter 1980).
  • "Economic Democracy: From Slogan to Promise." Christianity & Crisis (February 1980).
  • "The Redistribution of Income: Bedrock of a New Economic Democracy," Christianity & Crisis (February. 1980).
  • "Revelation and Conversion: A Semantic Appraisal." Anglican Theological Review (Spring 1980).
  • "The Omnijective Universe: The New Physics, Quantum Inseparability, and the End of Reifying Science." Contemporary Philosophy (Fall 1981).
  • "Imagination, Infinity and Intimacy," Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Supplement 1981).
  • "Religious Pluralism and Truth." Journal of the American Academy of Religion. (March 1982).
  • "Reality is Right-Angled: Preface to a Future Quantum Metaphysics." Contemporary Philosophy (Fall 1982).
  • "Theology, Hermeneutics, and the Shattering of Foundations." Encounter (Autumn 1982).
  • "From God to Infinity, or Why Science Raided Religion's Patent on Mystery." Zygon (September 1982).
  • "Religious Studies and the End of the Mandate of the Sixties." Bulletin of the Council of the Study of Religion (December 1983).
  • "Against Evolutionism: A Critique of Systems Philosophy and its Role in the Mapping of Global Futures". Contemporary Philosophy (Spring 1984).
  • "Harlequins and Beggars: Deconstruction and the Face of Fashionable Nihilism." Denver Quarterly. (Spring 1985). 
  • Satanism and the Devolution of the New Religions". SCP Journal (Fall 1985).
  • "Religious Studies and the Default of Critical Intelligence". Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Spring 1986).
  • "Religious Experience and Modern Synthetic Religiosity". Journal of Dharma (1986).
  • "Turing's Man or Yahweh's Witnesses: Rethinking How We Think Philosophically About Computers". Contemporary Philosophy (January 1986)."
  • “Textuality and Scripture." Semeia (Fall 1987). "
  • “The Philosophical Traditions That Science Left Behind", Contemporary Philosophy (September 1987).
  • "Satanism in America". Eternity (Fall 1988).
  • "The New Age Movement and Anti-Semitism". Special Report: The Talmudic Research Institute (1988).
  • "A New Age Dictionary." Bottom Line Personal. (November 1988). "
  • What is the New Age?" Bottom Line Personal. (September 1988).
  • "The Deconstructive Imagination: A Response to Mark Taylor", Religion in Intellectual Life (Winter 1988).
  • "Fire and Roses: Toward Authentic Post-Modern Religious Thinking", Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Winter 1991).
  • "Digital Culture, The Third Knowledge Revolution, and the Coming of the Hyperuniversity," Syllabus (March 1998).
  • "Thunder at the Torrent: A Postmodern Reading of Judges", Mars Hill Review, 1998.
  • "Beyond Education", Syllabus (November/December 1999).
  • "From the Sacred to the Semiotic: Theorizing Religion at the Turn of the Millennium". Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, December 1999.
  • "Heterological History: A Conversation with Edith Wyschogrod," Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, April 2000.
  • “Paratheology: The Study of Religion and the Science of the Negative.” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, December 2000.
  • “About ‘About Religion’: A Conversation with Mark Taylor. Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, April 2001.
  • “The Deposition of the Sign.” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, December 2001.
  • “Loosening Philosophy’s Tongue. “Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, April 2002.
  • “From Religion to Faith: Levinasian Ethics and the Grammar of Address, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, December 2002.
  • “Bataille’s Gift,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. December 2003.
  • “Catholics as Values Voters”, Guernica, October 2004.  
  • “Derrida and the Return of Religion: Religious Theory After Postmodernism,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. Spring 2005;

 

Other Publications

  • Over 500 articles, essays, and columns in various journals, national and regional newspapers, newsletters, and magazines..
  • Approximately 40 invited book reviews in a variety of national journals and periodicals in the fields of philosophy, religious studies, and Americana.

Media

            Carl Raschke is a well-known expert on religion and higher education, who has been interviewed and quoted on at least 900 different occasions over two decades in numerous local, regional, national, and international media outlets, including the major US television networks.