Carl A Raschke was born on 1944 and is an American philosopher and theologian.
17 Facts About Carl Raschke
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Carl Raschke is listed with the affiliated faculty of the Global Center for Advanced Studies.
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Carl Raschke is known in part for his research in philosophy of religion, postmodern theology, popular religion, philosophy of culture and philosophy of technology.
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Carl Raschke is senior editor for The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and senior consulting editor for The New Polis.
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Carl Raschke is a regular contributor to Political Theology Today.
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Finally, Carl Raschke has sought to introduce the essential concepts of critical theory to an evangelical audience in his book Critical Theology: Introducing an Agenda for an Age of Global Crisis.
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Carl Raschke's recent primer, Critical Theology, is a welcome handbook for those with philosophical backgrounds seeking to ground their study of the Frankfurt school with something like Jurgen Moltmann's liberation theology, or for those of a theological bent trying to grapple with the dense social critiques of a continental philosopher like Slavoj Zizek.
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Since 2015 Carl Raschke's work has focused mainly on political thought and political theology.
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Carl Raschke asserted that the New Left had unintentionally contributed to the rise of the Alt-right.
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Carl Raschke has served as section editor for The Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions.
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Particularly during the late 1980s and 1990s, Carl Raschke regularly commented to the media on matters involving Satanism and the occult, advised the American Family Foundation during the 1990s, and appeared as an expert witness during trials purportedly involving Satanism.
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Carl Raschke has continued to accept media requests for comment on these topics, such as for an object purportedly involved in the murder of Jessica Ridgeway in 2012.
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Scholar Arthur Versluis is highly critical of Carl Raschke's Painted Black, which he describes as an "effort to awaken an American inquisition" and refers to the book as "breathless sensationalism".
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Scholar Joseph P Laycock is highly critical of statements that Raschke made in the 1980s and early 1990s regarding Satanism in popular culture, noting that Raschke "is one of the few academics who embraced the moral panic over Satanism and role-playing games in the 1980s".
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Carl Raschke himself cites a group of sociologists of religion who determined that there was 'not a shred of evidence' that Satanism is a problem in America, directly contradicting the thesis of Rashke's book.
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Carl Raschke has written and commented in the media extensively on contemporary religion, especially regarding the New Age Movement.
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Carl Raschke's most cited and often controversial book on this is The Interruption of Eternity.