1. CURRICULUM VITAE
Carl A. Raschke
I. PERSONAL DATA
• Nationality: US Citizen.
• Home: 3300 S. Tamarac Dr., Unit M208, Denver CO 80231
• 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, God, and History 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
• Current. Professor of Religious Studies, University of Denver (since 1984).
• 2001-07. Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. Acting Chair Fall 2010.
• 2000- . Adjunct Faculty, Mars Hill Graduate School, Seattle.
• 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.
• 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
Selected Courses Taught
Basic Courses
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2. Globalization and Religion: Theory and Methods; Social Justice in Vienna; Political
Theology; Plato; Derrida and Postmodernism; Nietzsche and the Death of God; Deleuze
and Semiotics; Heidegger; Kant; Hegel and Kierkegaard; Theories and Methods in the Study
of Religion; American Religious Thinkers; Recent Trends in Postmodernism; Globalized
Religion (first-year seminar); Popular Thought and Culture of the 1960s; Contemporary
Religious Movements; Religious Diversity in America;Philosophy of Religion; Classical
Religious Thought; Modern Religious 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: Art, Thought, and Spirituality; The Clash of Civilizations; 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;
• Curriculum designer and team leader for Project Vienna
• Member of Religious Advisory Committee to Bridges to the Future; Member of
leadership team of Center for Religion and Public Life;
• Active in the outreach projects and VIVA Summer Program of University College;
• Served on Marsico Visiting Scholars Committee; Chair, 2009-10.
• 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
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3. 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;
• 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 (three 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;
• 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, Chair 2009-
• Board of Advisors, Foundation University (Netherlands)
• Member, Research Platform on European Religion, University of Vienna
• Chair, Special Programs Committee, Joint PhD Program
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,
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4. curriculum and program planning, service on dean's council of chairs. Developed
new graduate-level certificate program in Religious Diversity.
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. 
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
• Humanities Editor, Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions (Springer, publication date
2010).
• Senior Editor, Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (http://www.jcrt.org/);
• Co-director, Res Publica
• Editor, American Religion and Culture Series, The Davies Group Publishers;
• 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;
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5. • 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
• 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, University of Virginia Press,
Fordham University Press, Columbia University Press, WIPF Publishers;
• 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)
• Consultant and adjunct faculty member, Mars Hill Graduate School, Seattle,
Washington;
• Grant reader, Fulbright Foundation.
• 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;
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6. • 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.
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7. • 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.
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8. • 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. Invited panelist on religion and contemporary
trends in Judaism and Christianity, Association for Judaic Studies, Washington DC.
• 2006. Presented paper on “Signification and Singularity” for session on “Deleuze
and Religion,” Southwest Commission on Religious Studies, Dallas. Presented paper
on “The Weakness of God,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy,
Philadelphia. Invited annual college lecturer, Geneva College, Pennsylvania.
• 2007. Invited speaker for national symposium on religion in American public life,
Columbia University/Jewish Theological Seminary. Proceedings published in Society
magazine (fall
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9. 2009. “Globalization and Christianity.” Invited public lecture presented at International
Baptist Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic, February 2009; “’Globopomo’: The New
Missional/Missionary Thrust in Global Christianity.” Invited lecture at European
International College, Freudenstadt, Germany, February 2009; “Emergent Christianity and
the ‘Next Christendom’. Invited lecture and discussion, Foundation University, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands. February 2009; Invited conversation with faculty, administrators, and an
Austrian government official on International Service Learning, University of Vienna, March
2009; “Schmidt’s ‘State of Exception’ and the Postmodern Passage from the Political to the
‘Theopolitical.’: A New Framework for Understanding Violence and Evil”. Presented at the
conference “Evil, Law, and the State” in Salzburg, Austria, March 2009. ); Invited special
lecturer, The Global Humanities Lecture Series, York College of Pennsylvania, October
2009; “The Death of God from Altizer to Žižek,” invited formal response to a speech to
the American Academy of Religion by Slavoy Žižek, Montreal, Canada, November 2009.
2010. “Modern Art and the Religious Quest,” lecture presented to the Art League of
Grayson County (TX), January 2010; Invited talk on “Christianity and Globalization” at the
Marburg Bibel Seminar (Marburg, Germany), June 7, 2010; “Just Us: Derrida and the
Undeconstructibity of Justice,” Lecture at “Subverting the Norm” conference,
Southwestern Missouri State University, Springfield MO, Oct. 15, 2010; “Christianity and
Islam as Engines of Globalization,” paper presented at national conference Four Corners
Conference on Globalization, Grand Junction CO, October 2010.
2011. “Dreaming the Monstrous Future of Continental Philosophy, or What Derrida Was
Really Up To.” Paper presented at international conference, The Future of Continental
Philosophy. Syracuse University. Syracuse, NY. April 2011.
“Subjectification, Salvation, and the Real in Luther and Lacan.” Paper presented to an
international workshop on Luther and Lacan at the University of Vienna, Vienna,
Austria. November 2011.
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.
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10. • 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 Academic Books, 2004.
• GloboChrist. Grand Rapids MI: Baker Academic Books, 2008.
• Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event.
Charlottesville VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012 (fall)
• Faith and Philoosophy: Three Views. Co-authored with Alan Padgett and Craig Boyd.
Downersville IL: Intervarsity Press, 2013 (forthcoming).
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.
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11. • "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.
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12. • “9/11 and the Aftershocks: Rethinking American Secularism and Religious
Pluralism”, in Alan Mittleman, ed., Religion as a Public Good (Rowman and Littlefield,
2003).
• “Rending the Veil of the Temple: “The Death of God as Sacrificium
Representationis”, in Brian Schroeder and Lissa McCullough, Thinking Through the
Death of God (Albany NY: SUNY Press, 2004).
• “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.
• “The Politics of Ritual Abuse” in Randy Noblitt and Pamela P. Noblitt, Ritual Abuse
in the Twenty First Century: Psychological, Forensic, Social and Political Considerations (Thomas
Reed. 2008).
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).
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13. • "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).
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14. • "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.
• “The Emergency of Christianity,” Mars Hill Cross Talk, 2006.
• “The Weakness of God…and of Theological Thought for That Matter.” Journal for
Cultural and Religious Theory. Winter 2007.
• “The Religion of Politics: Concerning A Postmodern Political Theology “To Come”.
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory. Winter 2008.
• “From Church to Rhizone: Reconfiguring Theological Education for the
Postmodern Era.” The Other Journal 12 (Summer 2008).
• “Jesus: Nicht ‘zufällig auch’ eine Jude” [„Jesus: Not Your Accidental Jew“], trans.
into the German by Dietrich Fischer-Dörl. Die Gemeinde 5 (March 2009): 6-7.
• “Evangelicals in the Public Square”. Social Science and Modern Society. 46 (March/April
2009): 147-54.
• “The Dark Knight of Postmodern Politics.” The Other Journal 13 (October 8, 2009).
• “Derrida, Kandinsky, and the Force of Art.” The Church and Postmodern Culture. July
4, 2009.
• “Bono’s Dream of Capitalism without Capital? Don’t You Dare Steal My
Enjoyment!”, The Other Journal 17 (Feb. 2010)
• “Specters of Rage in an Age of Change: Sloterdijk and the ‘End” of the
Postmodern,” The Church and Postmodern Culture, August 2010..
• “Do We Really Get Romans? A Little Badiou and Žižek Can Help,” The Church and
Postmodern Culture, July 2010.
• “Writing as a Way of Teaching Students How to Talk ‘Art Talk,’” in Teaching and
Troubling Writing Intensive Courses, edited by Doug Hesse, 2nd
edition (University of
Denver Writing Program, 2010), 75-8.
• “The Monstrosity of Žižek’s Christianity.” Journal for Cultural and Religious
Theory, 11:2. Spring 2011. http://www.jcrt.org.
• “Globalization and Theology.” Religion Compass:, 5/11 (2011): 638–64.
Other Publications
• Over 500 articles, essays, and columns in various journals, national and regional
newspapers, newsletters, and magazines..
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15. • 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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