I. PREDECESSORS 1. Sigmund FREUD 2. Karl MARX 3. Friedrich NIETZSCHE 4. Ferdinand de SAUSSURE
II. THEORY FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES
5. Louis ALTHUSSER 6. Mikhail BAKHTIN 7. Roland BARTHES 8. Georges BATAILLE 9. Jean BAUDRILLARD 10. Walter BENJAMIN 11. Pierre BOURDIEU 12. Judith BUTLER 13. Hélène CIXOUS 14. Gilles DELEUZE and Félix GUATTARI 15. Jacques DERRIDA 16. Michel FOUCAULT 17. Hans-Georg GADAMER 18. Luce IRIGARAY 19. Julia KRISTEVA 20. Jacques LACAN 21. Henri LEFEBVRE 22. Emmanuel LEVINAS 23. Jean-François LYOTARD 24. Maurice MERLEAU-PONTY 25. Edward W. SAID 26. Gayatri Chakravorty SPIVAK 27. Hayden WHITE 28. Raymond WILLIAMS 29. Slavoj ZIZEK
William Deal is Severance Associate Professor of Religion at Case Western Reserve University. Timothy Beal is Harkness Professor of Biblical Literature and Director of the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University; he is the author, most recently, of Religion and Its Monsters, also published by Routledge