Explores the work of post-Holocaust Jewish and Christian thinkers who reject theodicy - arguments explaining why a loving God can permit evil and suffering in the world. BACKCOVER: Beyond Theodicy analyzes the rising tide of objections to explanations and justifications for why God permits evil and[...]

Are totems merely a thing of the distant past? Or might it be that our sleek new machines are producing totemic forces which we are only beginning to recognize? This book asks to what degree today's media technologies are haunted by a Freudian ghost, functioning as totems or taboos (or both). By iso[...]