Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Associate Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University; core faculty in the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; and co-director of Wesleyan’s certificate in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. She holds a B.A. in Religion and English from Williams College, an M.Phil. in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge University, and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Philosophy of Religion from Columbia University, where she also received a Certificate in Comparative Literature and Society. Her primary research interests lie in the intersections of continental philosophy and the Christian intellectual tradition. Other areas of focus include gender and sexuality studies, post-colonial Christianities, and the history and philosophy of cosmology. She is the author of Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe, as well as articles on Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Derrida, negative theology, political theologies, global Anglicanism, and contemporary cosmology. Her forthcoming book, Worlds without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse, puts recent theories of the “multiverse” into conversation with ancient “many-world” cosmologies.
Articles
Cosmic Singularities: On the Nothing and the Sovereign, Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2012)
Until very recently, the creation myth of secular modernity has been the hot big bang...
The Rebirth of the Death of God: Radical Theology Politicized, Political Theology Radicalized, and Radical Politics Theologized in the Work of Clayton Crockett and Jeffrey Robbins, Comparative and Continental Philosophy (2012)
This article offers a critical reflection on the mutually resonant recent works of Clayton Crockett...
The Twilight of the Doxai: Or, How to Philosophize with a Whac-a-Mole(TM) Mallet, Method and Theory in the Study of Religion (2012)
This article evaluates the hermeneutic value of the category of belief from the perspective of...
Books
Worlds without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (forthcoming) (2014)
Worlds without End explores the recent proliferation of "multiverse" cosmologies, which imagine our universe as...