This book is an interdisciplinary study of the cultural representations of Jesus in the context
of contemporary religious theory and continental philosophy. It looks at Jesus in view of an
updated Derridean hauntology and spectrality with an emphasis on the inherent plasticity of
the Christian heritage. While the work engages with the recent Jesus-centered writings of
Slavoj Zizek François Laruelle and Giorgio Agamben it places a greater and much needed
emphasis on the philosophical theological and cultural links between a plastic hauntological
Christian heritage and Jesus's historically evolving plural subjectivity with the latter
explored in texts of popular culture. It is a multidisciplinary study of Jesus as well as a
dynamic Christian heritage that simultaneously constructs and deconstructs Jesus's
philosophical political and cultural centrality.
