Eric Chalfant
Biographic Data
| ID | 3837192 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Chalfant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Chalfant |
| SIGNATURE | CHALFANT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Portland Community College Portland, Oregon |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Printing Infidelity: Watson Heston and the Making of the Impressionable Freethinking Subject, 1873-1900
Nineteenth-century print media provided a set of metaphors with which American unbelievers began to articulate an understanding of religious infidelity as something permanent. Ink, paper, pencil, and mechanical printing technologies served as symbols for articulating disbelief as something imprinted indelibly on the mind of the reading or viewing subject. Thus, over the course of the nineteenth century, American nonbelievers began discussing infi…
Everything is Noise: Don Delillo’s White Noise and the Affectivity of Media, Religion, and Divination
This paper provides a theoretical defense of the concept of noise, borrowed and loosened from the field of information theory, as a heuristic tool for discussing mediation as divination and exploring the intersection of media studies and religious studies. I first provide a theoretical primer for the concept of noise as it is articulated by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver and developed in media studies by Friedrich Kittler and in religious studi…
Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries. By Richard J. Meagher
Richard Meagher’s Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries is the latest in a burst of academic treatments of the history of atheist and anti-religious movements, joining Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith, Leigh Eric Schmidt, Stephen LeDrew, Tim Whitmarsh, and others. Meagher’s study complements its predecessors, adding to a burgeoning survey of American irreligion and the diff…
Taylor-Made: Immanent Transcendence in A Secular Age
In A Secular Age (2007), Charles Taylor ties modernity to a secular worldview in which any religion is understood as one possible belief among many. To make this argument, Taylor's primary foil is that of the unbeliever – the individual who regards atheism as the baseline standard for religious commitment and every religion as an unnecessary accretion on this baseline. The atheist, to Taylor, is quintessentially modern, embodying a sense of invul…
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Taylor-Made: Immanent Transcendence in A Secular Age
In A Secular Age (2007), Charles Taylor ties modernity to a secular worldview in which any religion is understood as one possible belief among many. To make this argument, Taylor's primary foil is that of the unbeliever – the individual who regards atheism as the baseline standard for religious commitment and every religion as an unnecessary accretion on this baseline. The atheist, to Taylor, is quintessentially modern, embodying a sense of invul…
Everything is Noise: Don Delillo’s White Noise and the Affectivity of Media, Religion, and Divination
This paper provides a theoretical defense of the concept of noise, borrowed and loosened from the field of information theory, as a heuristic tool for discussing mediation as divination and exploring the intersection of media studies and religious studies. I first provide a theoretical primer for the concept of noise as it is articulated by Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver and developed in media studies by Friedrich Kittler and in religious studi…
Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries. By Richard J. Meagher
Richard Meagher’s Atheists in American Politics: Social Movement Organizing from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries is the latest in a burst of academic treatments of the history of atheist and anti-religious movements, joining Richard Cimino and Christopher Smith, Leigh Eric Schmidt, Stephen LeDrew, Tim Whitmarsh, and others. Meagher’s study complements its predecessors, adding to a burgeoning survey of American irreligion and the diff…
Printing Infidelity: Watson Heston and the Making of the Impressionable Freethinking Subject, 1873-1900
Nineteenth-century print media provided a set of metaphors with which American unbelievers began to articulate an understanding of religious infidelity as something permanent. Ink, paper, pencil, and mechanical printing technologies served as symbols for articulating disbelief as something imprinted indelibly on the mind of the reading or viewing subject. Thus, over the course of the nineteenth century, American nonbelievers began discussing infi…
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