JCRT Call for Papers: "Michel Foucault and Saint Paul"

The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory has issued a Call for Papers for a special issue devoted to "Michel Foucault and Saint Paul."  This is a provocative line of inquiry, a shift from the dominance of Zizek & Badiou in discussions of Paul in contemporary theory.  As they put it:

The French philosopher Michel Foucault has been cited in relation to Saint Paul from a number of different critical perspectives. In the early 90’s, Stephen D. Moore and Elizabeth Castelli have used Foucault’s early work to analyse the notion of power within the Pauline epistles, allowing them to adopt a critical perspective on Paul. More recent scholarship, such as the work of Halvor Moxnes, has tended to focus on how Foucault’s later work on the care and ethics of the self found in first and second century Greek philosophy might provide insight into Paul’s understanding of the self. In this case, interaction between Foucault and Paul is seen more as a dialogue than as a critique of Paul by Foucault. In this special edition of JRCT, we hope to focus on a truly dialogical approach to Foucault and Paul. In order to accomplish this, we aim to provide a panoramic view of the various critical ways in which the two thinkers have been engaged. To this end we invite articles and reviews on any aspect of this ‘dialogue’ between Foucault and Paul.

Proposals are due 1 February 2009.