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Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary Japanese society, despite people’s struggles in the recession. Our social relationships become entangled, and we can no longer clearly identify our interest in politics. The search for the outside of stagnant reality someti…

Disneyland has been accepted as the poster child for the convergence of the postmodern concepts of “non-place, hyperreality, and utopic degeneration,” and so scholarship heavily focuses on Disney parks and their relationships to liminality, theming, and space in ways that implic…

Decisions: Political Theology and the Challenges of Postmodernity, argues that political theologies are both partially responsible for and responsive to the intrinsically related problems of racism, capitalism, and essentialist metaphysical thinking. Relying on dialectical mater…

The purpose of this dissertation is to compare reactions to postmodernity and its influence on theological method in the works of Alister McGrath and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. The dissertation proposes that how one reacts to postmodernity greatly influences one's theological method. …

Two of the most important authors on Islamic civilization, historian Bernard Lewis and cultural critic Edward Said, have opposite views as to how scholars should approach the study of the Islamic civilization. On Lewis's side, a modernist style, without regard to ideological pro…