Department of Religious Studies
Department of Religious Studies
Dakota Wade

Dakota Wade

Dakota Wade
Master's Student
Email: fqv7ke@virginia.edu

Education

•    University of Virginia – M.A. Religious Studies (In Progress)
      Focus: Modern & Contemporary Religious Thought 
•    Union Presbyterian Seminary – M.Div. (2024)
•    Universität Bern – Graduate Student with the Theology Faculty (2021)
•    Liberty University – M.A. Business Management & Leadership (2016)
•    Liberty University – B.A. Pastoral Leadership & Biblical Exposition (2015)

 Areas of Specialization

History of Philosophy & Christian Thought (esp., German Idealism), Religion & Modernity, Political Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Affect/Feeling & Religion.

Research Interests

German-Jewish Thought, Critical Theory, Political Philosophy, Aesthetics, Religion, Politics, & Ethics. 

Research Languages

German, Attic Greek, Latin.

Academic Publications

“Myth, History, & the Eternal Revolution of the Present in Johann Fichte’s Characteristics of the Present Age (1804/5),” Fichte’s Political Philosophy and Philosophy of History, Forthcoming.

Reviews

Kirill Chepurin & Alex Dubilet (eds.), Nothing Absolute: German Idealism and the Question of Political Theology, Reading Religion, 2025.

Conference Presentations

  • “Modeling the Messianic: The Anti-Nostalgic Politics of Alain Badiou & Walter Benjamin.” Nostalgia: A Graduate Religious Studies Conference, Brown University, Forthcoming. 
  • “Myth, Modernity, & the Eternal Revolution of the Present in Johann Fichte’s Characteristics of the Present Age (1804/5),” New York German Idealism Workshop, The New School for Social Research (NYC), 2025.
  • “Freedom of Conscience & the Lever of Radical Reform: The Reformverein’s Campaign Against the Apostle’s Creed in Bern, Switzerland (1848-1870)”, 19th Century Theology Unit [Ancient Christianity in the 19th Century], American Academy of Religion (Annual Meeting), 2023. 
  • “The Outer is not the Inner: Kierkegaard’s Anti-Hegelian Logic in Either/Or,” Kierkegaard, Religion, & Culture, American Academy of Religion (Mid-Atlantic Meeting), 2023.
  • “Schleiermacher’s Affective Pneumatology & the Manifold Problem of Affect,” Schleiermacher Unit, American Academy of Religion (Annual Meeting), 2021. 
  • “Music & Religious Experience: The Pious Harmonization of Affect in Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Christmas Eve Dialogue,” University of North Carolina-Charlotte (Sensory Cultures of Religion Graduate Conference), 2020. 
  • “Consciousness & the Problem of Nature: Johann Fichte and Friedrich Schleiermacher on the Necessity of Nature and the Nature of Necessity,” Philosophy of Religion Unit, American Academy of Religion (Mid-Atlantic), 2020.