RT Book T1 Postmodernism and the revolution in religious theory: toward a semiotics of the event T2 Studies in religion and culture A1 Raschke, Carl A. 1944- A1 Raschke, Carl Allan LA English PP Charlottesville u.a. PB University of Virginia Press YR 2012 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/696948761 AB Religion and the semiotic revolution -- Theory and the Deus evanescens: can there truly be a "science" of religion? -- Postmodernism and the return of the "religious" -- Radical religion in the "desert of the real" -- Bataille and Altizer: the sacrificial background of postmodern religious theory -- Levinas and the final à-dieu to theology -- Deleuze and nomadology -- Žižek and the failure of the subject -- Badiou and the prospects for theory -- Conclusion: toward a revival of religious theory NO Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-227) and index CN BL65.P73 SN 9780813933061 SN 9780813933078 K1 Derrida, Jacques K1 Badiou, Alain K1 Žižek, Slavoj K1 Semiotics : Religious aspects K1 Postmodernism : Religious aspects