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CURRICULUM VITAE
Carl
A. Raschke
I. PERSONAL DATA
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Nationality: US
Citizen.
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Residence: PO Box
100183/ Denver CO 80250.
- Work: Sturm
Hall 166/ University of Denver/ Denver CO 80208. Tel. 303 871-3206.
Cell: 720 318-4994.
II. EDUCATION
- Ph.D.
Harvard University. Special Fields: Philosophy of Religion/
Theological Studies. Dissertation: “Moral Action in the Thought of
Immanuel Kant.”
- M.A.
Graduate Theological Union. Special Field: Intellectual
History/ American Religious History. Thesis: “The ‘Pursuit of
Happiness’ in American Colonial Religious Thought.”
- B.A.
Pomona College. Special Field: Philosophy. Thesis: “The
Concept of Time in Bergson and Heidegger.”
III. PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Professional Positions
Held
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Current. Chair of
the Department of Religious Studies. Professor of Religious
Studies, University of Denver (since 1984).
- 2000-
. Adjunct
Faculty, Mars Hill Graduate School (at Western Theological Seminary,
Seattle.
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1999-2000. Visiting
Scholar, Department of Religious Studies, Rice University.
- 1991-96.
Executive Director, American Association for the Advancement of Core
Curriculum.
- 1987-91.
Director, Institute for the Humanities, University of Denver.
- 1986-88.
Honorarium Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of
Colorado, Colorado Springs.
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1977-84. Associate
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Denver.
- 1978-79.
National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar in Residence,
University of California, Santa Barbara.
- 1972-77.
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Denver.
- 1971-72.
Teaching Fellow, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard
University.
- 1970-72.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, University of
Massachusetts, Boston
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1967-68. Reporter
and editorial writer, Livermore Herald & News, San Francisco Bay
Area.
- 1965.
Reporter and feature writer, The Denison Herald, Texas.
Selected
Courses Taught
Basic Courses
Theories and Methods in the Study
of Religion; American Religious Thinkers; Recent Trends in
Postmodernism; Globalized Religion; Plato; Popular Thought and Culture
of the 1960s; Contemporary Religious Movements; Religious Diversity in
America; Derrida; Kant; Nietzsche; Heidegger; Hegel and Kierkegaard;
Philosophy of Religion; Classical Religious Thought; Modern Religious
Thought; History of Christian Thought; American Postmodernists; History
and Philosophy of Science; Philosophies of Language; Anthropological
Theories of Religion; Theories of Popular Culture; Introduction to
Philosophy; Introduction to Political Philosophy; Introduction to
Religious Studies; Religious Language and Experience; Love and Death;
Foundations of Feminism; Technology and Human Culture; Religion and the
American Literary Imagination; Religion and Culture; Religion, Utopia
and the Human Future; Ancient Religions; Crisis of Contemporary Values;
Existentialism; Ethics; Comparative Religious Philosophies; Medieval
Religion and Philosophy; Religion and the Media; Cultural Diversity;
Science and the Supernatural; Atheism, Mysticism and Science; Religion
and Violence; The Problem of Evil; Religion and the Occult; Art,
Religion, and Experience; Sex and Religion; Language and Religion;
Popular Eschatology; Cults and the Occult; Religion in the Digital Age.
Team-Taught,
Interdisciplinary, Core Courses
Humanities:
Word and Image in the Digital Age (experimental laptop computer-based
core class); Models of Wholeness; Civilizations Compared; Making of the
Modern Mind
Humanities/ Social
Sciences:
Interpretations of Power; Commercial Civilization.*
* Designer and Co-ordinator.
Cited for excellence by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Honors Courses
Modern religion; modern
philosophy.
University Service
- Chair of
the department;
- Member of
Religious Advisory Committee to Bridges to the Future; Member of
leadership team of Center for Religion and Public Life;
- Active in
the VIVA Summer Program of University College;
- Served on
Marsico Visiting Scholars Committee;
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Participated and presented in Reach Out DU;
- Lectured
in Public Curriculum series for Bridges to the Future;
- Grant
co-ordinator; Sacred Spaces project.
- Member of
Judaic Studies search committee;
- Advisory
committee; Bridges for the Future “American History and Values in
Light of September 11” (a statewide joint venture between the
University of Denver and Colorado State University involving public
lectures and public curriculum), member of executive committee
- Director
of the Institute for the Humanities;
- Founder,
director, and co-ordinator for University of Denver salon program;
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Representative and committee chair for Faculty Senate (four
different terms);
- Founder of
the joint Ph.D. program in the study of religion;
- Member of
the joint Ph.D. program in the study of religion (three different
terms);
- Member of
Joint Ph.D. Restructuring Committee;
- Chair;
Theology, Philosophy, and Cultural Theory Area of the joint Ph.D.
program;
- Director
of M.A. program in Religious Studies (two different terms);
- Director
of M.A. project in Religion and Communications;
- Member of
university task force on distance education;
- Member of
the Dean's advisory council in Arts and Humanities Service on tenure
and promotion committee (four different terms);
- Chair,
Department of Religious Studies tenure and promotion committee;
- Member of
in-house evaluation team for National Endowment for the Humanities
segment;
- Member of
University Senate Academic Planning Committee;
- Service on
provost's community leadership council;
- Advisor to
numerous doctoral students in philosophy of religion and theology;
- Service as
key advisor to approximately twenty doctoral dissertations since the
mid-1980s;
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Undergraduate and master's advisor for approximately thirty-five
students since the late 1970s;
- Chairman
of students affairs committee for University Senate Advisory council
for all-university programs board;
- Member of
vice-chancellor's calendar subcommittee;
- Member of
university facilities committee;
- Member of
planning committee for co-ordinated humanities dean's committee on
curriculum control;
- Leader of
vice-chancellor's curriculum committee on aging;
- Board of
Directors, Center for Teaching and Learning;
- Member of
Faculty Senate Task Force on Distance Education;
- Web liason
for Department of Religious Studies.
- Board of
Advisors for Center for Religion and American Public Life
- Member of
Public Good Committee
- Member of
Marsico Committee on Visiting Scholars
Significant
Administrative Experience
·Chair
of the Department of Religious Studies.
Performed general administrative duties, including supervision of
administrative staff, oversight and formulation of budgets and spending
for both graduate and undergraduate programs, faculty reviews,
curriculum and program planning, service on dean's council of chairs.
Developed new graduate-level certificate program in Religious Diversity.
·Co-founder
and Co-director of Res Publica.
Res Publica (http://www.res-publica.us/)
is a national organization of distinguished scholars and citizens
examining the role of religion in American public life. Res Publica
holds annual conferences and publishes an electronic as well as book
volumes of essays.
·Director,
Institute for the Humanities, University of Denver.
Founded and developed in its early stages The Institute for the
Humanities at the University of Denver.The Institute for the Humanities
was started as a curriculum analysis, research, and development arm of
the Division of Arts & Humanities. It was responsible for the final
phase management of a $500,000 grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities for core curriculum development. Under Dr. Raschke's
leadership from 1987 through 1991 the Institute accomplished the
following: Sponsored faculty development seminars in specific areas of
topical research such as women's studies, social and political
philosophy, and contemporary theater. The Institute currently is
currently a faculty and institutional development arm of the Division of
Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences.
·Salon
Director, Humanities Program.Established
and conducted quarterly "salons" for faculty members to promote
interdisciplinary exchange of expertise and knowledge in a variety of
areas from contemporary art criticism to classical studies. The salon
program was later extended to include community outreach and
fund-raising. Organized and oversaw at the University of Denver a
conference on core curriculum in the humanities in conjunction with the
staff of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Sponsored a public
series of lectures and seminars on opera history. Participated in the
founding of the American Association for the Advancement of Core
Curriculum. Created a board for the development of collaborative
ventures between business and education in the arts and humanities in
the state of Colorado. Assisted in the development of a special
humanities curriculum for international executive education in
co-operation with the Center for Management Development. Oversaw the
creation and implementation of a program-based development program which
is now a major effort of the University of Denver.
·President
and Executive Director, American Association for the Advancement of Core
Curriculum. As
president: Founded, incorporated, and developed national board of
directors. Planned, organized, and directed five national conferences on
core curriculum in Keystone, Colorado (1990); Chicago (1991); Atlanta
(1992); Houston (1993); Chicago (1994). Designed, edited, and produced
AAACC Bulletin - quarterly newsletter - since 1992 and bi-monthly
Education Trend Letter since 1993. Designed and developed AAACC
and LearnAmerica GopherServer for the Internet. Planned and developed
regional core councils of deans and university administrators - Texas
Core Leadership Council (1993); North Central Core Leadership Council
(1994). Wrote grant and designed The Knowledge Project and
C=LINK for AAACC to link core courses among Texas A&M University,
Georgetown University, and regional "user" institutions in the Midwest
and Southwest. Grant amount $20,000. Funding sources: Adolph
Coors Foundation and AT&T Network Systems..
Academic and Professional
Service
- Senior
Editor, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (http://www.jcrt.org/);
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Contributing Editor and Business Manager, Journal for Cultural
and Religious Theory
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Co-director, Res Publica (http://www.res-publica.us);
- Editor,
American Religion and Culture Series, The Davies Group Publishers;
- Founder
and executive director, American Association for the Advancement of
Core Curriculum;
- Invited
member of 10-person study group on reform of university curriculum,
National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation,
Fund for the Improvement of Post-secondary Education;
- Panelist
and reviewer, New American Schools project, U.S. Department of
Education and America's corporate leadership;
- Reviewer
and panelist, Texts and Translations, National Endowment for the
Humanities;
- Invited
contributor to The Humanities in America: 1988 Report to Congress
Board of Editors;
- Member of
Editorial Board for The Journal of the American Academy of
Religion;
- Founding
Member of Editorial Board for Postmodern Culture;
- Editor,
The Classics Series, Scholars Press;
- Editor,
The Academy Series, Scholars Press;
- Director,
American Academy of Religion;
- Member,
Publications Committee, American Academy of Religion;
- Chair,
Philosophy of Religion Section, American Academy of Religion;
- President,
Rocky Mountain/ Great Plains Region, American Academy of Religion
(twice);
- Vice
President and Program Chair, Rocky Mountain/ Great Plains Region,
American Academy of Religion Program (twice);
- President,
Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Region, American Academy of Religion
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Co-ordinator, National Conference on "Core Across the
Curriculum,"University of Denver and American Association for the
Advancement of Core Curriculum;
- Board of
Advisors, Institute for Advanced Philosophical Research;
- Board of
Advisors, Colorado Humanities Program Program;
- Chair,
National Conference on "Revisioning the Study of Religion";
- Reviewer/
Consultant for Scholars Press, State University of New York
Press,University of Michigan Press, University of Florida,
Prentice-Hall, Harper & Row, University of Colorado publications,
University of Chicago Press, University of California Press,
Georgetown University Press;
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Memberships in The American Association for the Advancement of Core
Curriculum, American Academy of Religion, American Philosophical
Association, American Society of Christian Ethics (by invitation),
Schopenhauer Gesellschaft, Associates for Religion and Intellectual
Life, Realia, American Association foar the Advancement of Science.
Community
Service (Highlights)
- Founder,
Fidelis, national organization of emergent church pastors and
mentors
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Theologian-in-residence, FOJ, Arlington, Texas;
- Principal,
Wings of the Eagle Ltd., an arts and spirituality retreat Center,
Lake Texoma (Kingston, Oklahoma;
- Consultant
and adjunct faculty member, Mars Hill Graduate School, Seattle,
Washington;
- Member and
adult education leader, Sherman Bible Church, Sherman, Texas;
- Member of
ministry team, Mars Hill Church, Dallas, Texas;
- Grant
reader, 1997-99, Fulbright Foundation.
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Consultant, Rocky Mountain Law Enforcement and Corrections
Technology Center, DOJ-funded research and training facility;
Lecturer on occult crime and domestic terrorism, various law
enforcement groups in the U.S;
- Senior
Fellow/ Policy Analyst, Independence Institute;
- Head,
Pacific Rim Task Force of Denver Business and Education;
- Chair,
Task Force on Higher Education, Independence Institute Advisor and
Planner, Colorado/Japanese Trade Mission;
- Founding
Director, Colorado Innovation Society, regional chapter of National
Small Business High Technology Institute;
- Editor,
Colorado Business & Technology Update;
- Publisher
and Senior Editor, Frontline Magazine;
- Member of
statewide editorial board, The Silicon Mountain Report;
- Regular
columnist and feature contributor for The Colorado Springs
Gazette-Telegraph, The Rocky Mountain Business Journal, Colorado
Business Magazine, Colorado Computing, Frontline, Colorado Business
& Technology Update;
- Occasional
contributor to op-ed and business pages of The Rocky Mountain
News and The Denver Post;
- Syndicated
columnist for Inside Colorado;
- Syndicated
columnist for Behind the Lines;
- Regular
public speaker to community groups, educational organizations,
chambers of commerce, churches, police groups, and attorneys on
topics ranging from religion in contemporary society to educational
reform to economic development;
- Expert
witness service in approximately twenty major national and local
court cases involving educational ethics and the role of religious
belief systems in legal matters;
- Regular
talk show guest on subjects ranging from educational reform to
religion in contemporary culture;
- Frequent
expert citation on more than 300 occasions in national media on
educational reform, economic development policy, and religion and
contemporary culture;
- Quoted
regularly in all major national media outlets,including The New
York Times, The Boston Globe, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The
Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, Los
Angeles Times, The Washington Times, The Washington Post, Women's
Day, Elle, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, The
Philadelphia Inquirer. Has been featured regularly on CNN, ABC's
20/20, NBC's Good Morning America and Sunday
Morning, ABC Nightly News and NBC Nightly News,
Fox Television's Current Affair.
IV. AWARDS AND
BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS
- Listed at
various times in Strathmore's Who's Who, Who's Who in the West,
and Who's Who in Religion, Directory of American Scholars,
Contemporary Authors, and International Directory of
Biography;
- Honorary
Membership in Phi Beta Kappa;
- NEH
Fellowship for College Teachers;
- Colorado
Humanities Program Grant, Summer;
- Fellowship
from German Academic Exchange Service;
- Chevron
Scholar
VI. SELECTED PAPERS
- 1973.
"Meaning and Saying in Religion." Regional meeting of the American
Academy of Religion. "The Asian Invasion of American Religion."
National Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. "Kant on
Theory and Practice." Philosophy symposium, University of Minnesota.
- 1974.
"Aionology". Regional AAR meeting. "Gnosticism and the Problem of
Time." National AAR meeting. "Mircea Eliade and the Problem of
Time." Institute for Religious Studies, Santa Barbara.
- 1975.
"Common Sense and the Language of Transcendence: Four Models."
National AAR meeting.
- 1976.
"Hermeneutics and Historical Process." Institute for Religious
Studies, Santa Barbara. "Schopenhauer on the Delusion of Progress."
International Schopenhauer Congress. Winterthur, Switzerland.
- 1977.
"Revelation and Conversion: A Semantic Appraisal". National AAR
meeting.
- 1978.
"Hermeneutics as the Revelation of the Unsaid." Regional AAR
meeting. "Grass Roots in High Places," conference at University of
Colorado.
- 1979.
"From Abstract to Personalistic Humanism". Institute for Advanced
Philosophical Research. "The Ethics of Economic Retrenchment".
National Conference of Catholic Campus Ministers.
- 1980.
"The Transformation Myth". Regional AAR meeting.
- 1981.
"From God to Infinity, or Why Science Raided Religion's Patent on
Mystery." Regional AAR meeting. "Kant and Ethics." American Society
for Christian Ethics. "The Omnijective Universe: The New Physics,
Quantum Inseparability, and the End of Reifying Science." Institute
for Advanced Philosophical Research.
- 1982.
"Harlequins and Beggars". National AAR meeting. "Reality is
Right-Angled: Preface to a Future Quantum Metaphysics." Institute
for Advanced Philosophical Research.
- 1983.
"Religion, Science, Hermeneutics: Three Trajectories Toward the
Rehabiliation of Theological Discourse". Regional AAR meeting. "The
New Physics and the Eschaton." National AAR meeting. "Against
Evolutionism: A Critique of Systems Philosophy and its Role in the
Mapping of Global Futures". Institute for Advanced Philosophical
Research. "Revisioning Religious Studies." National Conference on
"Revisioning the Study of Religion."
- 1985.
"Turing's Man or Yahweh's Witnesses: Rethinking How We Think
Philosophically About Computers". Conference on Computers and the
Humanities, University of Colorado.
- 1986.
"Religious Studies and the Problem of Descriptivism". Invited
lecture at Syracuse University. "The Philosophical Traditions That
Science Left Behind", Contemporary Philosophy, National Association
for the Advancement of Science. "Time as the Unthought Thought of
Thoughts." National AAR meeting. "Radicalism, Illuminism, and the
Politics of Gnosis." Southern Modern Language Association Meeting.
- 1987.
"Seeking to Save the Appearances." Regional AAR meeting.
"Ero-theo-poetics." National AAR meeting. "The New Age and
Management Training". National symposium of the American Management
Association. "The Philosophical Traditions That Science Left
Behind", Institute for Advanced Philosophical Research.
- 1988.
"Religious Totalism and the Rhetoric of Religion." National Meeting
of the Society for the Study of Social Influence. "The Humanities at
the Core". National Conference on "Coherence in the Liberal Arts",
University of North Texas. "Gnosticism and Fascism". Regional
meeting of the American Academy of Religion, New York City.
"Heidegger and the Thought of a Postmodern Philosophy". Southwestern
Heidegger Conference.
- 1989.
"Post-modernity and Religious Thought", invited paper, University of
Frankfurt (invited paper). Panel on core programs, "The Core and the
Canon," University of North Texas.
- 1990. "Closing
Time", Regional Meeting of the AAR. "Fire and Roses," invited paper,
King's College, Cambridge University, International Conference on
Post-modernism. "The Baca Project," Institute for Advanced
Philosophical Research. 1991. "The Words of the Prophets." Regional
AAR meeting.
- 1992.
"The Intentions or Eros: Popular Culture and the Rhetoric of the
Fashion Industry." Western Popular Culture Association. "The
Rhetoric of Religious Marginalty." National AAR Meeting.
- 1993.
"Teaching Ethical Decisions in the Core". National AAACC Meeting.
"Teaching Values in the Core." National AAACC Meeting. "Core
Curriculum and the Assessment Challenge." Invited presentation,
national conference on assessment by Texas A&M
- 1995.
"The Knowledge Project." National AAACC Meeting.
- 1996.
"Human Sacrifice and the Semiotics of the Body." National AAR
meeting.
- 1997.
"Digital Culture, The Third Knowledge Revolution, and the Coming of
the Hyperuniversity." Syllabus Conference, Sonoma, California.
- 1998.
"Semiotics and the Study of Religion." Invited lecture, Syracuse
University.
- 1999.
"Civil Religion Reconsidered." Southwest Commission on Religious
Studies, Dallas. "The Scene of Digital Learning." Invited paper,
Syllabus Conference Southwest, Dallas. "The Scene of Digital
Learning II." Syllabus Conference, National, San Jose. "On Not
Re-inventing the Wheel: Digital Education and Assessment." Invited
paper, United Engineering Foundation, Santa Clara, California.
- 2000.
"Waco:Seven Years Later." Invited panelist, Waco conference, Rice
University. "Understanding Unfamiliar Religoius Logics". Invited
paper. International Association for the History of Religions,
Durban, South Africa. "Secular Theology."
- 2001.
Invited panelist and presenter, American Academy of Religion
national meeting, Nashville TN. "Indian Territory: Postmodernism
Under the Sign of the Body."
- 2002.
Invited panelist,
American Academy of Religion national meeting. Denver CO.
"Knowledge Space: The Digital Revolution and Education Reform."
“Rethinking Religion After 9/11”, lecture at meeting of Res Publica,
Aspen, Colorado..
- 2003.
“The Grammar of Address,” paper presented at the Society for
Continental Theology and Philosophy, Villanova University, April
2003.
- 2004.
“The Coming of the Postmodern University.” Invited keynote speaker
for national EDUCAUSE meeting, Sedona, Arizona; .
Presentation on neo-conservatism, religion, and American foreign
policy, American Academy of Religion national meeting, November
2004;
- 2005.
Lecture on “Derrida and Religion” to University of Colorado-Denver
philosophy colloquium, May 2005. Chaired panel on religion and
terrorism at American Academy of Religion.
- 2006.
Presented paper on “Signification and Singularity” for session on
“Deleuze and Religion,” Southwest Commission on Religious Studies,
Dallas.
VII.
PUBLICATIONS
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.
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