Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Olivet College
Publications
“Natura nihil frustra facit” (2019) by Dustin J. Byrd
Forthcoming Books:
Dark Charisma: Donald Trump and the Erasure of America (Ekpyrosis Press 2021).
Alt-Fascism: On the Philosophical Foundations of the New Radical Right (Monograph in progress).
The Pope and the Populists: Pope Francis’ Struggle with Immigration, Nationalism, and the Limits of Multiculturalism (Monograph in progress).
Girolamo Savonarola: A Prophetic Critique of Early Modernity. (Monograph in progress).
Syed Hussein Alatas and Critical Social Theory. Co-Edited with Seyed Javad Miri. (Brill 2022)
The Many Faces of Populism: Perspectives from Critical Theory and Beyond. Co-edited with Mlado Ivanovic and Jeremiah Morelock (In progress)
Hegel and the Critical Theory of Religion, by Rudolf J. Siebert, edited by Dustin J. Byrd (Ekpyrosis Press, 2020).
Forthcoming Book Chapters:
“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, 2020)
“Mythology, Enlightenment, and Dialectic: Determinate Negation” Co-authored with Rudolf J. Siebert and Michael R. Ott. How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School, edited by Jeremiah Morelock. (Brill, 2021).
“Ali Shariati and the Foundations of Islamic Socialism: Muhammad, Capitalism, and the Post-Metaphysical Socialist Alternative” 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., 2020)
Publications:
Monographs:
The Frankfurt School and the Dialectics of Religion: Translating Critical Faith into Critical Theory (Ekpyrosis Press 2020).
Critical Theory of Religion: From the Frankfurt School to Emancipatory Islamic Thought. Kalamazoo, MI: Ekpyrosis Press, (June, 2020).
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 of 2018. 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) The book was 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 September, 2019.
Ayatollah Khomeini and the Anatomy of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: Toward a Theory of Prophetic Charisma. University Press of America: (July, 2011).
Book Editor/Co-Editor:
The Critique of Religion and Religion’s Critique: On Dialectical Religiology. Edited by Dustin J. Byrd. (Brill, 2020)
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.
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). Paper back released in October of 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 of 2017, Haymarket Books, Chicago.
The Early Critical Theory of Religion: The Island of Happiness by Rudolf J. Siebert. Sanbun Publishers: New Delhi, India. (Oct. 2014).
Book Chapters:
“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, 2020)
“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, 2020)
“Ali Shariati”Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism. 2ndEdition. Edited by Immanuel Ness (CUNY Brooklyn) and Zak Cope. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
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
“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 Religion International 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 Russia.
“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).
“Ali Shariati and the Dialectics of Authenticity: Reading Shariati through Heidegger, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche”Islamic Perspective Journal Vol. 20 Winter 2018 London Academy of Iranian Studies.
“Said Nursi’s Risale’i Nur and Critical Theory: Finding a Common Cause between Religion and Materialist Philosophy” Islamic Perspective Journal Vol. 16 Winter 2016 London Academy of Iranian Studies.
“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.
“Neither Man nor Beast: Dehumanization in Direct and Systemic Violence” Memoria Ethnologia No. 48-49, Dec. 2013. Romania. Abstract
“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.
“Walter Benjamin’s Critical Theory of Divine Violence and Political Messianism” Islamic Perspective Journal No. 5 2011 London Academy of Iranian Studies.
Review – A Critical Introduction to Khomeini edited by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, Cambridge University Press, 2014. Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World (May 26, 2015).
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).
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