Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Olivet College
Publications
Forthcoming Publications:
Books:
Frantz Fanon and Emancipatory Social Theory: A View from the Wretched. Co-Edited by Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri. (Brill, 2019).
Includes a chapter by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
The Critique of Religion and Religion’s Critique: On Dialectical Religiology. Edited by Dustin J. Byrd. Festschrift in Honor of Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert. (Brill, 2019/2020)
Faith and the Frankfurt School: Translating Negative Theology into Critical Political Philosophy (Currently under review by Columbia University Press).
Alt-Fascism: On the Philosophical Foundations of the Radical Right (Monograph in progress).
Pope Francis and the Muslims: Immigration, Nationalism, and the Limits of Multiculturalism (Monograph in progress).
Book Chapters:
“On the Possibility of a Post-Colonial Revolutionary: Reconsidering Žižek’s Reading of Frantz Fanon” in the forthcoming edited volume Frantz Fanon and Emancipatory Social Theory: A View from the Wretched. Co-Edited Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri. (Brill, 2019)
“A Dialectical Approach to the Roman Religion of Utility: The Hinges of History.” Co-Authored with Rudolf J. Siebert. Forthcoming book edited by Dies van der Linde (University of Amsterdam) and Francesca Mazzilli (Durham University). Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World. (Brill, 2019)
“Towards a Dialectical Revivification of Religion: Aufhaben and the Potential for Renovation and Renewal” in the forthcoming book The Critique of Religion and Religion’s Critique: On Dialectical Religiology. (Brill, 2019)
“Islamic Colonization and the Coming European Wretched: On the Ideology of Alt-Fascism” in the forthcoming book The Critique of Religion and Religion’s Critique: On Dialectical Religiology. (Brill, 2019)
“Ali Shariati’s Shi’a Socialism: On the Determinate Negation of Marx” in the forthcoming book Toward Indigenous Democratic Socialism. Edited by Mojtaba Mahdavi (University of Alberta) (Brill, 2020)
“Islamism and its Discontents: The Post-Islamist turn as Dialectical Thought and Praxis” in Reimagining Political Islam. Edited by Seyed Javad Miri. (International Peace Studies Center: London, U.K., 2019)
Publications:
Monographs:
Unfashionable Objections to Islamophobic Cartoons: L’affaire Charlie Hebdo. Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. (July, 2017).
Islam in a Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity, and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith. Brill Publishing: Leiden, Netherlands. (November, 2016).
Paperback released in January 2018, by Haymarket Books, Chicago.
Translated into Arabic by Mohammed Aafif, Professor of History at Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. Published by Mominoun Without Borders (Beirut, Lebanon) October, 2018. (mominoun.com)
Featured at the Casablanca International Book Fair, Morocco. (February, 2019)
A Critique of Ayn Rand’s Philosophy of Religion: The Gospel According to John Galt. Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Books): Lanham, MD. (February, 2015).
Paperback released by Lexington Books in July, 2019.
Ayatollah Khomeini and the Anatomy of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: Toward a Theory of Prophetic Charisma. University Press of America: (July, 2011).
Editor/Co-Editor:
Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory: Religion, Revolution and the Role of the Intellectual. Co-edited with Seyed Javad Miri. Brill Publishing: Leiden Netherlands. (September, 2017).
Paperback released in October, 2018, by Haymarket Books, Chicago.
Malcolm X: From Political Eschatology to Religious Revolutionary. Co-edited with Seyed Javad Miri. Brill Publishing: Leiden, Netherlands. (May 2016).
Paperback released in November, 2017, by Haymarket Books, Chicago.
The Early Critical Theory of Religion: The Island of Happinessby Rudolf J. Siebert. Sanbun Publishers: New Delhi, India. (Oct. 2014).
“Must Non-Europeans Think Like Us: A Critique of Thoughtlessness” in the forthcoming book The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization. Edited by Esmaeil Zeiny, Ph.D. (Brill, 2019) The Rest Write Back: Discourse and Decolonization
“Ali Shariati and Critical Theory: From Black Affirmation to Red Negation” in Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory. Brill Publishing, Leiden, Netherlands. (2017)
“Malcolm X and Revolutionary Religion: Christianity, Islam and their Emancipatory Potentials” in Malcolm X: From Political Eschatology to Religious Revolutionary. Co-edited by Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri. Brill Publishing, Leiden, Netherlands. (2016). Malcolm X and Revolutionary Religion
Prologue for the book “Islamism and Post-Islamism: Reflections upon Allama Jafari’s Political Thought” By Seyed Javad Miri. University Press of America: Lanham, MD. (2014). Islamism and Post-Islamism
“Fromm’s Notion of Prophet and Priest: Ancient Antagonism, Modern Manifestations” in Reclaiming the Sane Society: Essays on Erich Fromm’s Thought. Edited by Robert Lake & Seyed Javad Miri. Sense Publications: Rotterdam, Netherlands. (2014) Fromm’s Notion of Prophet and Priest
“Bilderverbot and Utopia: God Unarticulated, Other World Unannounced” The Dialectic of the Religious and the Secular: Studies of the Future of Religion. Edited by Dr. Michael R. Ott., Brill Publishing: Leiden, Netherlands. (2014) Bilderverbot and Utopia
“Nietzsche’s Transvaluation of Islam: On Philosophical Orientalism and its Consequences” in Orientalism: A Eurocentric Vision of the Other. International Peace Studies Center. London, U.K. (2013) Orientalism: A Eurocentric Vision of the Other
Prologue for the book Transcendent Unity of Human Culture: Allama Jafari and Russian Literary Thinkersby Dr. Seyed Javad Miri, London Academy of Iranian Studies, (2013). Transcendent Unity of Human Cultures
“The Modern Appeal of Islam and Buddhism” Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Edited by Anne Runehov & Lluis Oviedo. Springer Press, New York/Berlin. (2013) Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religion: Front Matter
Prologue for the book Allama Jafari on Bertrand Russell: East and West – Shall the Twain Meet? by Dr. Seyed Javad Miri. University Press of America, 2012. (2013) Allam Jafari on Bertrand Russell
“On the State of Islam: Thoughts on Revolution, Revolt, and Reform” in The Global Future of ReligionInternational Peace Studies Centre. London, U.K. (2013)
Epilogue to Sociology and Allama M. T. Jafari: Probing into Issues of Humanities, Religion, Philosophy, and Social Science by Seyed Javad Miri. London Academy of Iranian studies. (2012)
“Walter Benjamin’s Critical Theory of Divine Violence and Political Messianism” in Social Theory, Religion, and Critical Discourses. Edited by Seyed Javad Miri, Lambert Academic Publishing. (2011).
“The Swastika and the Crescent: ‘Islamofascism’ – Fact or Political Syllogism?” in Social Theory, Religion, and Critical Discourses. Edited by Seyed Javad Miri, Lambert Academic Publishing. (2011).
“Reinventing Utopia: Exploring the Possibilities of That Which Has No Place” Religion and Civil Society: New National Borders, and the Paradoxes of the Globalized Cultural Environment. Tavrida National University: Simferopol, Ukraine. (2008).
“Secular Republic or Holy Empire: How America’s Views on Race, Class, and Religion Contribute to Global Resentment,” in Religion and Civil Society: Between Nationalism and Globalism. Tavrida National University: Simferopol, Ukraine. (2004).
Translated into Russian.
“Global Discourse in the Face of Empire: America, Biophilia vs. Necrophilia, and the Salvation of the American Legacy,” in Religion and Civil Society: On the Way to Global Ethos. Tavrida National University: Simferopol, Ukraine. (2003).
Journal Articles:
“Saint Francis and the Sultan Malik al-Kamel: Old Paradigm for a New Inter-Religious Discourse” The Muslim World Journal (Wiley-Blackwell) Edited by Farid Z. Munir (Siena College) and Jason Welle (The Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies). Special edition on Saint Francis and the Sultan Malik al-Kamel. (2019) To be a Saint and a Sultan
“Apocatastasis and the Far-Right’s Return to Religion: Against the Muslim Other” Islamic Perspective. London Academy of Iranian Studies. Vol. 21. Spring, 2019. Islamic Perspective Journal Vol. 21 Spring 2019
“Ali Shariati and the Dialectics of Authenticity: Reading Shariati through Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche” Islamic Perspective Journal. London Academy of Iranian Studies. Vol. 20. Winter, 2018. Islamic Perspective Journal Vol. 20 Winter 2018
“God is Dead but not Forgotten: Horkheimer’s Critique of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Religion” Islamic Perspective Journal. London Academy of Iranian Studies. Vol. 18, Winter, 2017. Islamic Perspective Journal Vol 18 Winter 2017
“Said Nursi’s Risale’i Nurand Critical Theory: Finding a Common Cause between Religion and Materialist Philosophy” Islamic Perspective Journal. London Academy of Iranian Studies. Winter, 2016. Islamic Perspective Journal Vol. 16 Winter 2016
“In the Original Language: Reading Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of Religion in a Post-Secular Society.” Heathwood Journal of Critical Theory. United Kingdom. Vol. 1, Issue 3. Summer, 2016.
“Nietzsche’s Transvaluation of Islam: On Philosophical Orientalism and its Consequences” Transcendent Philosophy Journal. Vol. 16, No. 27. London Academy of Iranian Studies. December, 2015. Transcendent Philosophy Journal Vol 16 Dec. 2015
“Habermas, Post-Secularity, and the Problems of Muslim Minorities in Europe” Journal of Religious Studies, History, and Society (Revista Ciências da Religião – Historia e Sociedade) MacKenzie University, Brazil. Summer, 2014. Habermas – Post-Metaphysical Thinking – Muslims
“Critical Theory of Religion: From Having to Being” Co-Authored with Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert (Western Michigan University) and Dr. Michael R. Ott (Grand Valley State University) Critical Research on Religion. Sage Publications. April, 2013.
“Blackwater Theology: On the Unholy Trinity of Sirico, Strauss, and Friedman” Islamic Perspective Journal, No. 8, 2012. London Academy of Iranian Studies. Blackwater Theology
“Bildeverbot and Utopia: On the Imageless God and Unarticulated Society” Islamic Perspective Journal, No. 7, 2012. London Academy of Iranian Studies. Bilderverbot and Utopia
“Walter Benjamin’s Critical Theory of Divine Violence and Political Messianism” Islamic Perspective Journal, No. 5, 2011. London Academy of Iranian Studies. Islamic Perspective Journal No. 5 2011
“The Swastika and the Crescent: ‘Islamofascism’ – Fact or Political Syllogism?” Islamic Perspective Journal, No. 4 2010. London Academy of Iranian Studies. Islamic Perspective Journal No. 4 2010
Book Reviews:
A review of Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, ed., A Critical Introduction to Khomeini. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World (May 26, 2015). Review – A Critical Introduction to Khomeini
A review of Jerome Braun’s “Democratic Culture and Moral Character. A Study in Culture and Personality.” Dordrecht: Springer. Rudolf J. Siebert & Dustin J. Byrd. Critical Research on Religion. Sage Publications. (Aug. 2015, Vol. 3: Issue 2).
A review of Dr. Manning Marable’s book Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. Islamic Perspective Journal, No. 6. (Dec. 2011) London Academy of Iranian Studies. Islamic Perspective Journal No. 6 Dec. 2011
A review of Dr. Michael R. Ott, (Ed.) The Future of Religion: Toward a Reconciled Society. Michigan Sociological Review, Volume 23, (Fall 2009)
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