Department of Religious Studies
Department of Religious Studies
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 as Philosopheme: 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

  • “Alien-Nation(s): National Humanism & the Two Bodies of the Human Race,” The Sign, the Sacred, & the Body Politic in the Age of Choice (Theory, Culture, & Late-Modernity Seminar: Institute for Advanced Cultural Studies - Charlottesville, Virginia), 2026.
  • “The King’s Two Bodies & the Body of the Jews: Johann Fichte on Revolution, Sovereignty, & the Jewish Question,” Fichte’s Social Thought: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives (Seventeenth Biennial Meeting of the North American Fichte Society), 2026.
  • “Modeling the (Secular) Messianic: The Politics of Eternity in Alain Badiou & Walter Benjamin,” (Graduate Jewish Studies Conference – University of Virginia), 2026.
  • “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.