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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ■ In the evolution of this manuscript I have been blessed with many assistants and contributing “theorists” who have played both crucial and occasional roles. In particular, I would like to acknowledge the following: the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University, which hosted me as a visiting scholar, and where I began this particular venture over a decade ago; the University of Denver, which afforded me a sabbatical to take time to launch the project; Dr. Victor Taylor, at York College of Pennsylvania and the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, for his support and suggestions for the development of the concept of the book; Dr. David Hale, former doctoral advisee and currently on the faculty at Colorado Mesa University, for opening my eyes to the significance of Deleuze’s work; Rachel Tillman, at present a doctoral candidate in philosophy, for her close reading of an earlier version of the manuscript; Tyler Akers and Heidi Rhodes, my doctoral students, for similar readings of a later version; Joshua Ramos, also a PhD student, for his thorough and scrupulous proofreading and copyediting; Jason Alvis, for his reading and observations ; my wife, Sunny, for her deep love and devotion to me and encouragement of my work. The book has incorporated both excerpts and major portions, along with various emendations and extensive revisions, of a number of previously published articles in other books and journals. They include “Paratheology: The Study of Religion and the Science of the Negative,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, December 2000; “The Deposition of the Sign,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, December 2001; “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; “The Monstrosity of Žižek’s Christianity,” Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, Spring 2011; A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S x “Rending the Veil of the Temple: The Death of God as Sacrificium Representationis,” in Thinking Through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer, ed. Lissa McCullough and Brian Schroeder (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004), 1–10. Thanks to these sources for permission to rework or reprint earlier published portions of this book. [54.81.185.66] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 13:31 GMT) POSTMODERNISM AND THE REVOLUTION IN RELIGIOUS THEORY ...