Lisa Landoe Hedrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 1693631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Landoe Hedrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa Landoe |
| FAMILY NAME | Hedrick |
| SIGNATURE | HEDRICK L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Decolonizing “the Data” of Religious Studies
Challenging the false neutrality of secularism, J. Z. Smith (1988) declared that between “religion” and “religious studies” there is “no difference at all.” The subsequent rise of area studies matched the decline of comparative programs whose underwriting logic faltered under postcolonial scrutiny. This turn toward particularity and data expansion was a way of reckoning with the ethnocentric universalizing of modern social theory. Today, scholars…
Justice and Generality After Critique
The context for my paper is Wesley J. Wildman's understanding of the dispute between modernity and postmodernity; namely, that it is fundamentally a dispute about generality and justice. Where postmodern critique goes wrong, he argues, is in failing to appreciate how a tireless commitment to self-criticism can manage the risks of assertion. We need both consciousness-raising critique and orienting conceptual interpretations of the world—achieving…
The Coloniality of the Secular
Only Words Apart? Talking About “The World” in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion
In his well-known critique of conceptual relativism, Donald Davidson declared that we are not worlds but “only words apart.” His interpretive principle of charity asserts that the transcendental condition of disagreement is agreement. Pragmatist philosophers of religion have relied upon the principle of charity to argue against a framework theory of religion. They use the notion of a scale of observationality to illustrate where broad-scale agree…
The Ontological Turn's New Animists and the Concept of Belief
The purpose of this article is threefold: first, to demonstrate ways in which new materialist scholarship has been underappreciated in religious studies, particularly with regard to its complications of belief talk; second, to suggest how this underappreciation is, in part, due to a prior misunderstanding of what is “new” about new materialism; and third, to explore underrealized constructive resources posed by thinking with new animism and the c…
Beyond Heaven and Earth
The title of Gabriel Levy’s recent book may mislead; this is not a traditional cognitive science of religion. It is all the better for it. Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion is a bold attempt to expose the problematic metaphysics underwriting traditional cognitive science of religion that has impeded its effort to be, well, about religion. The reason for this impediment is that the (“philosophically naïve” [8]) materialist mo…
Caputo and the Language of Radicality
In this review article, I offer a critical reading of John D. Caputo’s polymorphic account of “radical theology.” Following Caputo’s lead, I remain cognizant of the ways in which critique “of” radical theology might always also be critique “as” radical theology, insofar as it performs the “inexhaustibility of recontextualizablility.” In exploring Caputo’s language of radicality, I play with this line between its rooting for and its rooting out of…
The Ontological Turn's New Animists and the Concept of Belief
The purpose of this article is threefold: first, to demonstrate ways in which new materialist scholarship has been underappreciated in religious studies, particularly with regard to its complications of belief talk; second, to suggest how this underappreciation is, in part, due to a prior misunderstanding of what is “new” about new materialism; and third, to explore underrealized constructive resources posed by thinking with new animism and the c…
Beyond Heaven and Earth
The title of Gabriel Levy’s recent book may mislead; this is not a traditional cognitive science of religion. It is all the better for it. Beyond Heaven and Earth: A Cognitive Theory of Religion is a bold attempt to expose the problematic metaphysics underwriting traditional cognitive science of religion that has impeded its effort to be, well, about religion. The reason for this impediment is that the (“philosophically naïve” [8]) materialist mo…
Caputo and the Language of Radicality
In this review article, I offer a critical reading of John D. Caputo’s polymorphic account of “radical theology.” Following Caputo’s lead, I remain cognizant of the ways in which critique “of” radical theology might always also be critique “as” radical theology, insofar as it performs the “inexhaustibility of recontextualizablility.” In exploring Caputo’s language of radicality, I play with this line between its rooting for and its rooting out of…
Only Words Apart? Talking About “The World” in Pragmatist Philosophy of Religion
In his well-known critique of conceptual relativism, Donald Davidson declared that we are not worlds but “only words apart.” His interpretive principle of charity asserts that the transcendental condition of disagreement is agreement. Pragmatist philosophers of religion have relied upon the principle of charity to argue against a framework theory of religion. They use the notion of a scale of observationality to illustrate where broad-scale agree…
The Ontological Turn's New Animists and the Concept of Belief
The purpose of this article is threefold: first, to demonstrate ways in which new materialist scholarship has been underappreciated in religious studies, particularly with regard to its complications of belief talk; second, to suggest how this underappreciation is, in part, due to a prior misunderstanding of what is “new” about new materialism; and third, to explore underrealized constructive resources posed by thinking with new animism and the c…
Justice and Generality After Critique
The context for my paper is Wesley J. Wildman's understanding of the dispute between modernity and postmodernity; namely, that it is fundamentally a dispute about generality and justice. Where postmodern critique goes wrong, he argues, is in failing to appreciate how a tireless commitment to self-criticism can manage the risks of assertion. We need both consciousness-raising critique and orienting conceptual interpretations of the world—achieving…
The Coloniality of the Secular
Decolonizing “the Data” of Religious Studies
Challenging the false neutrality of secularism, J. Z. Smith (1988) declared that between “religion” and “religious studies” there is “no difference at all.” The subsequent rise of area studies matched the decline of comparative programs whose underwriting logic faltered under postcolonial scrutiny. This turn toward particularity and data expansion was a way of reckoning with the ethnocentric universalizing of modern social theory. Today, scholars…
Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Materialism (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (2 works)