Publications

Jon K. Loessin, Ph.D.

The following is a partial list of publications I have authored or co-authored:

Articles 

A New Theory of Everything:  The Postmodern Prophets and the Paradox of Freedom.  The Year 2016 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Dallas: ASSR, 2016, p. 1-8.

Religion and Social Destiny: A Postmodern Analysis.  The Year 2015 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Dallas: ASSR, 2015. p. 52-61.

A Postmodern Pilgrinmage:  Theology and Deconstruction in Thomas Mann's Death in Venice  The Year 2014 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion. Dallas: ASSR, 2014. p. 62-72.

A Postmodern Pandemic: The New Trinity of Politics, Media, and Faith The Year 2013 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion.  Dallas: ASSR, 2013. p.43-49.

Baudrillard, Cioran, and the Postmodern Gods The Year 2012 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion--Southwest.  Dallas: ASSR-SW, 2012. p. 52-60.

The Glorious Minds: 19th Century Theocratic Orthodoxy in Europe and its InfluenceThe Year 2011 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion--Southwest.  Dallas: ASSR-SW, 2011. p. 13-19.

God Bless Texas: Religious and Postmodernist Narratives in the Texas Nationalist Movement.  The Year 2010 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion--Southwest.  Dallas: ASSR-SW, 2010. p. 75-84.

Intolerant Impiety in Illusions Insufficient: Individuality, Ideology, Invention, Imagination, Illation, and Imitation

"Evil in the Afterglow: Quantum Thought in Baudrillard."  The Year 2008 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion--Southwest.  Dallas: ASSR-SW, 2008.  p. 62-67.

"Cioran and the Worship of Apocalypse." The Year 2007 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion�Southwest, 2007. p. 45-51.

"Cioran and the Paradox of Faith."  The Year 2006 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion�Southwest, 2006.

"Matriarchal Ministries: A Pilot Study of Female Senior Pastors."  The Year 2005 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion�Southwest, 2005.

�Factors Affecting the Call to Ministry Revisited: A Preview and Preliminary Findings of a Comparative Cross-Denominational Study in Progress.� The Year 2004 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion�Southwest, 2004.

�Sacrifice, Faith, and Freedom". The Year 2001 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion�Southwest, 2001.

�de Maistre and the Divine.� The Year 2000 Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion�Southwest, 2000.

�God�s Mysterious Ways : An Observation on Richard Burton�s Roles as the Religious Anti-Hero.�  The Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion�Southwest, 1993.

�Perversion of the Cross: The History and Meaning of the Swastika Symbol as Sacred or Profane.� The Proceedings of the Association for the Scientific Study of Religion�Southwest, 1991.

Original Poetry

"Ecce Spiritus (or After Reading Nietzsche)." In A Voyage to Remember, Richard Schaub, ed.. Owings Mill, MD: The National Library of Poetry, 1996.

Other

--various articles in collegiate, local, national, and international newspapers