Publications

Books

Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
University of Chicago Press (2022) 

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms
Fordham University Press (2017)

Edited by Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Polydox Reflections
Wiley-Blackwell (2014)

Edited by Katheryn Tanner and Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe
Columbia University Press (2008)

Edited by Catherine Keller and Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Image: Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination
University of Chicago Press (2021) 

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein, Thomas A. Carlson, Mark C. Taylor

Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters
Columbia University Press (2018)

 Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Worlds without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse
Columbia University Press (2015) 

 Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Book Chapters

Atheism and Science
The Varieties of Atheism (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Above Us, Only Sky
Image: Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Lost Expectations: On Derrida’s Abraham
Kierkegaard and Political Theology (2018)

 Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Science
The Palgrave Handbook of Radical Theology (2018)

    Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Introduction: Tangled Matters (with Catherine Keller)
Entangled Worlds: Science, Religion, and New Materialism (2017)

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

End Without End: Cosmology and Infinity in Nicholas of Cusa
Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God: Essays in Honor of Denys Turner (2015)

    Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Heidegger’s Caves: On Dwelling in Wonder
Practices of Wonder: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives (2012)

    Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Undone By Each Other: Interrupted Sovereignty in Augustine’s Confessions
Polydoxy: Theology of Multiplicity and Relation (2010)

    Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Pantheist Monstrosities: On Race, Gender, Divinity, and Dirt
Material Christianity: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures (2020)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Transcendence of Trauma
Trauma and Transcendence: Prospects for Philosophy of Religion (2018)

    Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Matter with Pantheism: On Shepherds and Goat-Gods and Mountains and Monsters
Entangled Worlds: Science, Religion, and New Materialism (2018)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Queer Enfleshment
Sexual Disorientations: Queer Temporalities, Affects, Theologies (2018)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Myth and Modern Physics: On the Power of Nothing
Theologies of Creation: Creatio Ex Nihilo and Its New Rivals (2014)

    Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Fire Each Time: Dark Energy and the Breath of Creation
Cosmology, Ecology, and the Energy of God (2012)

    Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Let Freedom Free
The Sleeping Giant Has Awoken: The New Politics of Religion in the United States (2008)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Unbearable Withness of Being: On the Essentialist Blind-Spot of Anti-Ontotheology
Theology and the Political: The New Debate (2005)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Articles

A Pantheology of Pandemic: Sex, Race, Nature, and The Virus
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Veridical Claims and the Question (once more) of Philosophy of Religion
Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Of the Of: Genre, Generation, and the Continental Philosophy of Religion
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (2019)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Introducing Polydoxy
Modern Theology (2014)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Cosmic Singularities: On the Nothing and the Sovereign
Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2012)

     Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Capital Shares: The Way Back into the With of Christianity
Political Theology (2010)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Dionysius, Derrida, and the Critique of “Ontotheology”
Modern Theology (2008)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Pantheist Monstrosities: On Race, Gender, Divinity, and Dirt
 Material Christianity: Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures  (2020)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Lure of Pan(en)theism: Difference and Desire in Divine Enticement
Modern Theology (2014)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Rebirth of the Death of God
Comparative and Continental Philosophy (2012)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

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)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Onward, Ridiculous Debaters
Political Theology (2009)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Of Ghosts and Angels: Derrida, Kushner, and the Impossibility of Forgiveness
Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (2008)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

A Certain Disavowel: The Pathos and Politics of Wonder
Princeton Theological Review (2006)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Kierkegaard’s Socrates: a Venture in Evolutionary Theory
Modern Theology (2001)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Online Essays

Who Owns the Heavens
The Christian Century (2022)

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Somewhere out there: Corporate utopias of space and sea
The Immanent Frame (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein and Jenna Supp-Montgomerie

On Almost Breastfeeding My Mother
Avidly (2020)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Cosmology and the Environment
The Immanent Frame (2015)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Notes from the Tangled Anglican Web
Killing the Buddha (2010)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Homosexuality and the Anglican Debate
The Immanent Frame (2009)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Page 99 Test
Campaign for the American Reader (2022)

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

A Tale of Two Utopias: Musk and Bezos in Outer Space
Metapolis (2022)

Mary-Jane Rubenstein

The New Corporate Space Race: A Colonial Remix 
The Revealer (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Cosmic Pantheism
Nautilus (2017)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

God vs. the Multiverse
The New Scientist (2015)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

How to Avoid the G-Word
Cosmologics (2014)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Thinking Otherwise: Secularity and the Liberal Arts
The Immanent Frame (2010)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Videos

Sacred Space symposium: What is the cosmic future of humanity?
ASU Interplanetary Initiative (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Sacred Space symposium: How will space exploration reshape religion?
ASU Interplanetary Initiative (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Learned Displeasure and Embodied Machine: On Donovan Schaefer’s Wild Experiment
University of Pennsylvania (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The QAnon Phenomenon
Wesleyan University (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

A Pantheology of Pandemic: Nature, Sex, Race, and the Virus
American Journal of Theology and Philosophy (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Infinite Canaan: Science, Religion and the New Space Race
Westar Institute (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

 Space, the new Wild West
The Institute of Art and Ideas (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Perspectives on Panpsychism
The Institute of Art and Ideas (2019)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Does the Multiverse Exist?
Institute of Art and Ideas (2019)

Vafa, Rubenstein, Ellis

Multiverse Cosmologies and the Entanglement of Science and Religion 
Dartmouth University (2015)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

One Way up through the Way Back into the out of Ontotheology
Wesleyan University (2013)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Sacred Space symposium: How has religion influenced space exploration?
ASU Interplanetary Initiative (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Heaven on Mars: The Ecocidal Messianism of the Corporate Space Race
ISSRNC Conference (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

How I Learned to Love the Multiverse
Beyond Belief (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Consciousness and the World
The Institute of Art and Ideas (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Right Way to Think
Philosophy For Our Times (2019)

Boghossian, Rubenstein, McGrath

Multiverses, Pantheism, and Ecology
The Institute of Art and Ideas (2019)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Matter with Pantheism: Race, Gender, Divinity and Dirt
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth (2016)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

God and the Multiverse: A Melodrama
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth (2016)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Asceticosmologies: Modern Science as Religious Practice 
Wesleyan University (2012)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Cosmic Singularities: On the Nothing and the Sovereign
Wesleyan University: Center for the Humanities (2010)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Interviews and Podcasts

The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
Tech Won’t Save Us (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

What does it mean to treat something as sacred?
The Colin McEnroe Show (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
Things Not Seen (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Race to Colonize Mars Perpetuates a Dangerous Religion
Nautilus (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Mythology of Newspace
From There to Here: A Podcast for Space Hackers (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

A Religion-Fueled Space Race
Celestial Citizen (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
New Books Network (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Astrotopia: The Religion of Space Exploration
Straight White American Jesus (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
The Anti-Distopians (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Returning to the Moon
BBC Sounds (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

What Does Religion Have to Do With Space Exploration?
Mission: Interplanetary (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Astrotopia Pre-Launch Interview
Interrupted (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Space Odyssey
Big Little Issues, A Theology Podcast (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Many Forms of the Divine
ICE Podcast (2021) 

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Galileo’s Lost Letter
BBC: Science Stories (2019)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

WICN “Inquiry” Interview: Worlds Without End
Inquiry, WICN (2019)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race
The Chasing Leviathan Podcast (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Manifest Destiny in Space
Current Affairs (2023)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Mythology and the Colonisation of Space
The Philosopher (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Episode 31: The Corporate Space Race and Religion
The Revealer (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Episode 50 with Dr. Mary-Jane Rubenstein
Idea Cast Interview Series (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Monsters of Pantheism
Philosophy for Our Times (2022)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Our Understanding of God and Why it Matters (even for atheists)
The Earthly Delights Podcast (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Ethics of Colonizing Space
CPM Podcast (2020) 

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Sacred Matter
Expanding Mind Podcast (2019) 

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

WICN “Inquiry” Interview: Pantheologies
Inquiry, WICN (2019)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Maternal Materiality
The Catacombic Machine (2018)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Theoretical Physicist Wore a Toga
Studio 360, WNYC (2015)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Does Multiverse Theory Bring Theology into Science?
Religion Dispatches (2014)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Multiverse: A Religious and Historical Perspective
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement at Dartmouth (2016)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Medieval Bishop’s Big Bang Theory
BBC Science Stories (2017)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Gods, Worlds, Monsters
The Catacombic Machine (2018)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Reviews of Astrotopia

Review of Astrotopia
The Orange County Register (2023)

Larry Wilson

Review of Astrotopia
The Wall Street Journal (2022)

Steven Poole

Review of Astrotopia
Sunday Book Review (2023)

Thomas Fox

Review of Astrotopia
The Connector (2023)

Micah L. Sifry

Review of Astrotopia
Ancillary Review of Books (2023)

Jeremy Brett

Review of Astrotopia
Science: The Wire (2022)

Philip Ball

Review of Astrotopia
Nature Astronomy (2022)

James Tatam

Review of Astrotopia
Library Journal (2022)

Jennifer Moore

Review of Astrotopia
The Well-Read Naturalist (2022)

Johannes E. Riutta

Review of Astrotopia
Nature (2022)

Andrew Robinson

Review of Astrotopia
Booklist (2022)

George Kendall

Review of Astrotopia
Science (2022)

Roger D. Launius

Review of Astrotopia
The Revealer (2022)

Catherine L. Newell

Reviews of Pantheologies

Review of Pantheologies
Reimagining Religious Imagination (2021)

Adrian Ivakhiv

Review of Pantheologies
Marginalia (2021)

Forum of Contributors

Review of Pantheologies
Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2019)

Beatrice Marovich

Review of Pantheologies
Nova Religio (2020)

Darren Iammarino

Review of Pantheologies
Reading Religion (2021)

Oriane Lavolé

Review of Pantheologies
Worldviews: Global Religions (2020)

Alison Renna

Review of Pantheologies
Correspondences 7, no. 2 (2019)

Timothy Grieve-Carlson

Reviews of Worlds without End

Syndicate Symposium: Worlds without End
Syndicate (2016)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Worlds without End Book Event
An und für sich (2015)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

The Multiverse in a Flat Circle: Review of Worlds without End
The Los Angeles Review of Books (2014)

Jared Keller

Compte Rendu: Worlds without End
 Lectures (2015)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Review: Worlds without End
The Revealer: A Review of Religion and the Media (2014)

Patrick Blanchfield

Reviews of Strange Wonder

Review of Strange Wonder
Modern Theology (2010)

Catherine Keller

Review of Strange Wonder
The Journal of the American Academy of Religion (2010)

Jonathan Malesic

Review of Strange Wonder
Reviews in Religion and Theology (2010)

Daniel B. Gallagher

Book Reviews

Review of Mark C. Taylor,  Intervolution: Smart Bodies, Smart Things
The Journal of Religion (2021)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Review of Lisa Sideris, Consecrating Science
American Academy of Religion (2019)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Review of Catherine Keller, Cloud of the Impossible
Cambridge Core (2017)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Review of Joy (ed.): Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion 
International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion (2011)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Review of Jones, Curing the Philosopher’s Disease
Sophia (2010)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Review of Papanikolaou, Being with God 
(2007)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Review of Karmen MacKendrick, Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions
Journal of Religion (2015)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Review of Julia Kristeva, This Incredible Need to Believe
Modern Theology(2010)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein

Review of Chrétien, The Ark of Speech
Modern Theology(2005)

Mary-Jane V Rubenstein