We are pleased to announce the publication of the August 2017 issue of Critical Research on Religion (Volume: 5, Number: 2)

https://crr.sagepub.com.

Below you will find the table of contents:

Special Section: Foucault and religion: Critical engagements:

• “A genealogy of critique: From parrhesia to prophecy” Tom Boland, Paul Clogher
• “Reexamining Foucault on confession and obedience: Peter Schaefer’s Radical Pietism as counter-conduct” Elisa Heinämäki
• “Pastoral power, sovereignty and class: Church, tithe and simony in Quebec” Bruce Curtis

Articles:

• “Contextualizing “religion” of young Karl Marx: A preliminary analysis” Mitsutoshi Horii
• “Nomad self-governance and disaffected power versus semiological state apparatus of capture: The case of Roma Pentecostalism” Cerasela Voiculescu

Response to April 2017 Editorial:

• “On neither burying nor praising religion” Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

Book Reviews:

• “Donovan O. Schaefer, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power” Lucas Scott Wright
• “Carlin A Barton and Daniel Boyarin, Imagine No Religion: How Modern Abstractions Hide Ancient Realities” Nickolas P Roubekas
• “Vincent L Wimbush (ed), Scripturalizing the Sacred: The Written as Political” Michael J Altman

Editorial Team: Warren S. Goldstein, Jonathan Boyarin, and Rebekka King
Critical Research on Religion Editorial Office
goldstein@criticaltheoryofreligion.org