Beatrice Marovich

Beatrice Marovich is an associate professor at Hanover College. Her work offers provocative reflections on the way that strange and ancient religious figures and ideas remain at work in our cultures, in our politics. Her first book is Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying (Columbia University Press, 2023). You can follow her Substack newsletter, Galactic Underworlds or find @beamarovich on Twitter and Instagram.

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Religion Dispatches

Simon Critchley, Atheist Religious Thinker on Utopia & the Fiction of Faith

Philosopher Simon Critchley on evangelical atheists, the ‘supreme fiction’ in politics or love, and why the debate over whether you believe in a god is massively irrelevant.

Beatrice Marovich

August 20, 2012

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Religion Dispatches

Immortal Illusions: Should We Stop Trying to Live Forever?

Is the human drive for immortality, from the Alexander the Great to Frankenstein to the latest technology-driven movements, just an illusion?

Beatrice Marovich

June 4, 2012

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Religion Dispatches

Eat, Pray, Kill: The Basic Brutality of Eating

When it comes to the consumption of meat, our human hands have long been dirty. This isn’t a discouragement to stop striving for the good. But a moral proposal that promises to wash our filthy fingers spotlessly clean—in seconds flat—is suspect. Because they will still be dirty. The pressing moral question, of meat, becomes: given that human hands are obviously soiled, what can be done with these polluted tools?

Beatrice Marovich

May 16, 2012

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