Religious issues and debates Books
GINGKO Hijab - Three Modern Iranian Seminarian
Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of the range of seminarian thinking in Iran on the controversial topic of the hijab. During the modern period, Iran has suffered a great deal of conflict and confusion caused by the impact of Western views on the hijab in the 19th century, Riza Shah Pahlavi's 1936 decree banning Islamic head coverings, and the imposition of the veil in the wake of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Hijab addresses the differences of opinion among seminarians on the hijab in the Islamic Republic of Iran, focusing on three representative thinkers: Murtaza Mutahhari who held veiling to be compulsory, Ahmad Qabil who argued for the desirability of the hijab, and Muhsin Kadivar who considers it neither necessary nor desirable. In the first chapter, the views of these three scholars are contextualized within the framework known as 'new religious thinking' among the seminarians. Comprehending the hermeneutics of this new religious thinking is key to appreciating how and why the younger generation of scholars have offered divergent judgements about the hijab. Following the first chapter, the book is divided into three parallel sections, each devoted to one of the three seminarians. These present a chronological approach, and each scholar's position on the hijab is assessed with reference to historical specificity and their own general jurisprudential perspective. Extensive examples of the writings of the three scholars on the hijab are also provided.Trade Review‘This excellent study is an examination of the evolving theological and juristic positions on hijab among seminarians in Iran. The author Lloyd Ridgeon provides the reader with valuable insights into the complexity of the juristic debates. Focusing on the work of three aptly-chosen scholars, he makes their juristic arguments available in English for the first time, as well as referencing the extensive literature on the topic in English and Persian. The writing is clear, the story unfolds systematically and cogently, and the book is a pleasure to read.’ Ziba Mir-Hosseini, SOAS University of London; ‘This study fills an important gap by discussing the views of three different Islamic scholars from Iran on the hijab. A particular strength of the book is that it covers scholars from both the pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary periods. The contributions of the scholars are contextualized by providing accessible introductions to the political, social and cultural developments in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution with a focus on gender issues and the question of the hijab. As such, the study illustrates quite well how Islamic jurisprudence is always situated in and responds to a particular context.’Oliver Scharbrodt, University of Birmingham.
£38.00
Palgrave Macmillan Human Rights and Religions
Book SynopsisChapter 1. The contributions of various religious and ideological communities for and against the development of a tradition of human rights.- Chapter 2. Do religious and ideological communities have to respect human rights, protect them and contribute to their realization?.- Chapter 3. Must the state enforce the application of human rights in religious and philosophical communities?.- Chapter 4. How should the corresponding arguments be evaluated from a social-ethical perspective?.- Chapter 5. Adaptation – thinking dialogically about the relationship between religious and ideological communities and human rights.- Chapter 6. Closing remarks.
£107.99
Springer International Publishing AG Expressions of Radicalization: Global Politics,
Book SynopsisThis edited collection considers whether it is possible to discern how the level of ideology is affected by radicalization. In other words: what happens in the minds of people before they decide to use political violence as means to attain their goals? Also this book asks: what has to happen in the minds of people in order to preclude them from using political violence as a way of attaining their goals? This volume unites scholars from several disciplines and perspectives from a number of different geographical, social and cultural contexts with the overarching aim to refine our understanding of what ‘radicalization’ actually implies.Table of Contents1 Introduction: Understanding Ideological Radicalization, Andreas Önnerforsand Kristian Steiner2 “Christianist” Lone Wolf Terrorism, Matthew Feldman3 Who is Setting Your Agenda?: Social Network Analysis of Radical Movements’, Josef Slerka and Vit Sisler4 Taking the Streets with Concepts, Andreas Onnerfors5 Political Radicalization in Israel, Dani Filc6 Peace Expectations in Messianic Judaism, Kristian Steiner, Anders Lundberg7 Dealing with the Intimate Enemy, Sarbeswar Sahoo8 Elections, Violence and (de)radicalization, Megan Dyfvermark (Reif)9 The Perfect Storm: A Study of Boko Haram, Caroline Varin10 Ideas, Perceptions or Realities, Jonathan Githens-Mazer11 Exit from Terrorism and Violence and Extremism, Anja Dalgaard-Nielsen12 Conclusion, Andreas Onnerfors and Kristian Steiner
£112.49
Verlag Herder Dranbleiben!: Glauben Mit Und Trotz Der Kirche
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£18.00
Verlag Herder Ungehorsam: Eine Zerreissprobe
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£19.80
Peter Lang AG The Church as a Replacement of Israel: An
Book SynopsisDoes the Christian church replace the nation Israel in the plan of God? The doctrine of supersessionism answers this question in the affirmative. But is supersessionism a biblical doctrine? Michael J. Vlach offers a detailed examination of the view that the church is the new Israel that permanently takes the place of the nation Israel. He surveys the supersessionist view in church history and then examines its hermeneutical and theological arguments. He also presents a case against supersessionism. In a unique way, he lays out the arguments of both supersessionism and non-supersessionism and then offers his analysis of why supersessionism is not consistent with the biblical witness.Table of ContentsContents: A thorough examination of the church-Israel relationship – A compelling case against replacement theology – Why the church is not the new Israel.
£35.50
Lit Verlag Religious Discourse, Social Cohesion and
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£19.90
The University of Chicago Press To Care for Creation The Emergence of the
Book SynopsisControversial megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll proclaimed from a conference stage in 2013, I know who made the environment and he's coming back and going to burn it all up. So yes, I drive an SUV. The comment, which Driscoll later explained away as a joke, highlights what has been a long history of religious anti-environmentalism. Given how firmly entrenched this sentiment has been, surprising inroads have been made by a new movement with few financial resources, which is deeply committed to promoting green religious traditions and creating a new environmental ethic. To Care for Creation chronicles this movement and explains how it has emerged despite institutional and cultural barriers, as well as the hurdles posed by logic and practices that set religious environmental organizations apart from the secular movement. Ellingson takes a deep dive into the ways entrepreneurial activists tap into and improvise on a variety of theological, ethical, and symbolic traditions in order to issue
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Secularism in Antebellum America
Book SynopsisOffers an account of religion and society in nineteenth-century America. Exploring the eruptions of religion in New York's penny presses, the budding fields of anthropology and phrenology, and Moby-Dick, this book challenges the strict separation between the religious and the secular that remains integral to discussions about religion.Trade Review"Imaginative and rewarding, this is an exemplary instance of interdisciplinary historical inquiry. A brilliant, groundbreaking book." (John Corrigan, Florida State University)"
£76.00
John Wiley & Sons Towards a Godless Dominion Unbelief in Interwar
Book SynopsisA century ago Canada was considered to be a Christian nation and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some vigorously resisted the dominance of Christianity. Towards a Godless Dominion explores both anti-religious activism and the organized opposition religious unbelievers faced from Canada in the 1920s and ’30s.Trade Review“Engaging, insightful, well-written, and solidly researched. Elliot Hanowski adds a new dimension to our understanding of religion and irreligion in twentieth-century Canada. The book further expands our knowledge of the religious spectrum in Canadian society, importantly deflecting attention away from the historic mainstream churches and beliefs.” David B. Marshall, University of Calgary and author of Secularizing the Faith: Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief, 1850–1940“Towards a Godless Dominion reminds us that repression works. Elites remain as ready and able as ever to stifle the kinds of speech that they find threatening. It takes courage or at least eccentricity to resist them.” Literature Review of Canada
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Towards a Godless Dominion
Book SynopsisA century ago Canada was considered to be a Christian nation and the vast majority of Canadians claimed they were devoutly religious. But some vigorously resisted the dominance of Christianity. Towards a Godless Dominion explores both anti-religious activism and the organized opposition religious unbelievers faced from Canada in the 1920s and ’30s.Trade Review“Engaging, insightful, well-written, and solidly researched. Elliot Hanowski adds a new dimension to our understanding of religion and irreligion in twentieth-century Canada. The book further expands our knowledge of the religious spectrum in Canadian society, importantly deflecting attention away from the historic mainstream churches and beliefs.” David B. Marshall, University of Calgary and author of Secularizing the Faith: Canadian Protestant Clergy and the Crisis of Belief, 1850–1940“Towards a Godless Dominion reminds us that repression works. Elites remain as ready and able as ever to stifle the kinds of speech that they find threatening. It takes courage or at least eccentricity to resist them.” Literature Review of Canada
£31.50
Columbia University Press Religion Theory Critique
Book SynopsisReligion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporary and classical theories as well as non-Western cultural contexts. It is the first textbook which seeks to engage discussion of classical approaches with contemporary cultural and critical theories.Trade ReviewCovering an important and impressive range of theoretical approaches and critical engagement, this sophisticated book will be a useful resource for serious scholars of religion as well as those working in related fields such as anthropology, sociology of religion, and psychology of religion. -- Hugh Urban, Ohio State University Once driven by a comparative method on the trail of timeless universals, the academic study of religion is today an entirely different beast: a newer generation is far more sensitive to viewpoint, theory, and the practical implications of scholarship itself. Religion, Theory, Critique offers a set of state-of-the-art essays that keep in sight both the study of religious people as well as those who classify them as religious. It therefore sets the table for scrutinizing the entire field-including our tools and our assumptions. -- Russell McCutcheon, University of Alabama This volume will quickly become essential to undergraduate and graduate 'theory and method' courses, as well as a range of 'religion and culture' courses and graduate student reading lists. -- M. Gail Hamner, Syracuse UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. The Copernican Turn in the Study of Religion, by Richard King Part 1: Historical Foundations/Genealogies 2. Nominalist "Judaism" and the Late-Ancient Invention of Religion, by Daniel Boyarin 3. Bible/Religion/Critique, by Ward Blanton and Yvonne Sherwood 4. Hegel: On Secularity and the Religion-Making Machine, by Arvind Mandair 5. Friedrich Max Muller and the Science of Religion, by Lourens van den Bosch 6. Classic Comparative Theology and the Study of Religion, by Hugh Nicholson 7. Religion, Religious Studies, and Shinto in Modern Japan, by Jun'ichi Isomae Part 2: The Enlightenment Critique of Religion 8. David Hume on Religion, by Randall Styers 9. Feuerbach on Religion, by Jay Geller 10. Nietzsche: Life, Works, Reception, by Tyler Roberts 11. Sigmund Freud on Religion, by Volney Gay 12. Karl Marx on Religion, by Terry Rey 13. "Religion" in the Writings of the New Atheists, by Tina Beattie Part 3: Religion Beyond the West 14. Indigenous African Traditions as Models for Theorizing Religion, by Edward P. Antonio 15. Zongjiao and the Category of Religion in China, by Ya-pei Kuo 16. Islamic D?n as an Alternative to Western Models of "Religion", by Ahmet T. Karamustafa 17. Translation, by Arvind Mandair Part 4: Religion as Experience 18. The Psychology of Religion, by Jeremy Carrette 19. William James and the Study of Religion: A Critical Reading, by Jeremy Carrette and David Lamberth 20. Rudolf Otto and the Idea of the Holy, by Gregory Alles 21. Jung on Religion, by Volney Gay 22. Religion and the Brain: Cognitive Science as a Basis for Theories of Religion, by Ilkka Pyysiainen 23. A Critical Response to Cognitivist Theories of Religion, by Steven Engler and Mark Quentin Gardiner Part 5: Religion, Language, and Myth 24. "Religion" in Anglo-American (Analytical) Philosophy of Religion, by Ludger Viefhues-Bailey 25. Structuralist Linguistics and Structuralist Theories of Religion, by Volney Gay 26. Imagining, Manufacturing, and Theorizing Myth: An Overview of Key Theories of Myth and Religion, by Daniel Dubuisson Part 6: Religion/Society/Culture 27. The Origins of the Sociology of Religion: The Problem of "Religion" and "Religions" in Classical Sociology, by Bryan S. Turner 28. Contemporary Social Theory and Religion: The Misconstrual of Religion in Theories of "Second" Modernity, by Simon Speck 29. Classical Anthropological Theories of Religion, by Randall Styers 30. Defining Religion: Geertz and Asad, by Jon P. Mitchell 31. Religion, Media, and Cultural Studies, by Richard Fox Part 7: Religion, Ritual, and Action 32. Classic Ritual Theories, by Ulrike Brunotte 33. The Myth-Ritual Debate, by Ulrike Brunotte 34. From Ritual to Ritualization, by Jon P. Mitchell 35. Religion and Theories of Action, by Kocku von Stuckrad Part 8: The Phenomenology of Religion and Its Critics 36. Phenomenology of Religion: The Philosophical Background, by Charles E. Scott 37. The Phenomenology of Religion, by James L. Cox 38. Mircea Eliade, by Gregory Alles 39. Critical Responses to Phenomenological Theories of Religion: What Kind of Category Is "Religion"?, by William Arnal 40. Critical Religion: "Religion" Is Not a Stand-Alone Category, by Timothy Fitzgerald Part 9: Religion and Contemporary European Thought 41. Post-Marxism and Religion, by Nelson Maldonado-Torres 42. Pierre Bourdieu on Religion, by Terry Rey 43. Jacques Derrida on Religion, by Ellen Armour 44. Foucault and the Study of Religion, by Jeremy Carrette 45. Contemporary Continental Philosophy and the "Return of the Religious", by Randall Styers Part 10: Religion, Gender, and Sexuality 46. Feminist Approaches to the Study of Religion, by Darlene Juschka 47. French Feminism and Religion, by Morny Joy 48. Queer Theory Meets Critical Religion: Are We Starting to Think Yet?, by Naomi R. Goldenberg Part 11: Religion, Coloniality and Race 49. Religion, Modernity, and Coloniality, by Nelson Maldonado-Torres 50. Apartheid Comparative Religion in South Africa, by David Chidester 51. Theorizing Race and Religion: Du Bois, Cox, and Fanon, by William David Hart 52. Black Cultural Criticism, the New Politics of Difference, and Religious Criticism, by Victor Anderson 53. Theorizing Black Religious Studies: A Genealogy, by Victor Anderson Part 12: Religion/Nation/Globalization 54. Religion and Violence, by William T. Cavanaugh 55. Religion and Economy, by Gregory Alles 56. Globalization and Religion, by Jeremy Carrette List of Contributors Index
£133.60
Columbia University Press Tracing the Sign of the Cross
Book SynopsisTrade Review[T]he book will have some real and lasting use as a primary source American Catholic Studies
£42.50
Columbia University Press Worlds Without End
Book SynopsisAn exciting look at contemporary scientific cosmologies and their relationship to philosophy and religion.Trade ReviewRubenstein grounds the current debate on the plurality of universes on solid scholarship, skillfully exploring its historical and philosophical roots. -- Marcelo Gleiser, Dartmouth College This is a work that performs the 'many-oneness' of the multiverse, whose history and potentiality it maps. As she traces the startling philosophical depths, mystical ancestry, and scientific shocks of this cosmic boundlessness, Rubenstein's brilliance sparkles like its innumerable stars. -- Catherine Keller, author of Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming Some physicists suggest that our cosmos has been caught in an endless loop, repeatedly cycling between big bangs since time immemorial. In Worlds Without End, Mary-Jane Rubenstein provides a remarkable tour of how such ideas-and competing ideas about whether our universe is embedded within some larger multiverse-have likewise been cycling throughout Western thought for millennia. This deeply learned excavation is a rare accomplishment: a page-turner that asks large questions about science, philosophy, and religion. Fascinating. -- David Kaiser, author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival We are living through a golden age of cosmology, when observations reveal a universe 13.8 billion years big and new theories and new evidence vie with one another almost on a daily basis. Rubenstein is an expert guide to this dramatic scene. Uncovering humorous comparisons with the past, she shows that our golden age is tarnished in only a few ways. We cannot tell which of the many-worlds hypotheses is the right one, whether they exist under an integrated set of laws, and we may never be able to so. Yet the quest continues and produces many profound insights. Rubenstein shows the way scientific worldviews grow from the kind of questions we ask, how metaphysics and physics are mutually entangled, and how the many worlds of her title emerge, again and again over two thousand years, often in spite of their authors' intentions and taste. A witty and mature view of views. -- Charles Jencks , author of The Garden of Cosmic Speculation A must read for anyone who is interested in the evolution of human thought about the cosmos. The reader is led through the history of philosophical, religious and scientific ideas and arguments for the existence of many worlds then left to contemplate their own ending to the cosmic story. A beautiful and authoritative description of the struggles and developments of competing ideas about nature for the past three millenia -- Laura Mersini-Houghton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rubenstein's witty, thought-provoking history of philosophy and physics leaves one in awe of just how close Thomas Aquinas and American physicist Steven Weinberg are in spirit as they seek ultimate answers. Publishers Weekly Wonderful... A fun, mind-stretching read, clear and enlightening. San Francisco Book Review A fascinating and very well-written book... Green Spirit Magazine An excellent starting point for those wishing to go even deeper down the throat of the wormhole. Recommended. CHOICE If one seeks a scholarly account of the main ideas rather than of the detailed science, then Worlds Without End is excellent. Physics TodayTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: How to Avoid the G-Word 1. A Single, Complete Whole 2. Ancient Openings of Multiplicity 3. Navigating the Infinite 4. Measuring the Immeasurable 5. Bangs, Bubbles, and Branes: Atomists Versus Stoics, Take Two 6. Ascending to the Ultimate Multiverse Unendings: On the Entanglement of Science and Religion Notes Bibliography Index
£75.15
Columbia University Press The Fate of Wonder
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKevin M. Cahill knows the relevant literature well and deploys it with care and sophistication, developing an interpretation that confirms and enhances the intrinsic intellectual interest of resolute and therapeutic readings of Wittgenstein. -- Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford University, author of Wittgenstein's Private Language: Grammar, Nonsense, and Imagination in Philosophical Investigations ...a worthy contribution to this discussion. Choice ...a book of multiple ambitions, skillfully juggled and substantially realized. -- Naomi Scheman Austrain Sstudies NewsMagazineTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part I 1. Interpreting the Tractatus 2. The Ethical Purpose of the Tractatus 3. A Resolute Failure Conclusion to Part I Part II 4. The Concept of Progress in Wittgenstein's Thought 5. The Truly Apocalyptic View 6. The Fate of Metaphysics Notes Bibliography Index
£52.70
Columbia University Press The Essential Huainanzi
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe Essential Huainanzi could be used, affordably, for student course work. I highly recommend. -- James D. Sellmann * Dao *Table of ContentsContents Sketch of Early Chinese History, with Special Reference to the Huainanzi Introduction 1. Originating in the Way 2. Activating the Genuine 3. Celestial Patterns 4. Terrestrial Forms 5. Seasonal Rules 6. Surveying Obscurities 7. Quintessential Spirit 8. The Basic Warp 9. The Ruler's Techniques 10. Profound Precepts 11. Integrating Customs 12. Responses of the Way 13. Boundless Discourses 14. Sayings Explained 15. An Overview of the Military 16 and 17. A Mountain of Persuasions and A Forest of Persuasions 18. Among Others 19. Cultivating Effort 20. The Exalted Lineage 21. An Overview of the Essentials Glossary of Personal Names Brief Bibliography Index
£82.80
Columbia University Press Blood
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is bound to become a standard against which future scholarship on the cultural history of Christianity and several related fields will be evaluated. It achieves the feat of offering an exhaustive genealogy of the significance of "blood" in Western civilization, thereby pulling blood into an urgently needed visibility. -- Elisabeth Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara This is an original reading of the place of blood in Christian theology and religion and its far-reaching impact on the history and cultural practices of the West. It is distinguished by the singular voice of its author, who is at once fiercely critical, ironic, contemptuous, erudite, and enlightening as he engages thinkers both living and dead on the relationship between blood and its many metaphoric and literal representations. This is not a conventional book in any way, it is a manifesto, a call, if not to arms, then to recognition of the fact that Western thought, its social and political organization, is infused with Christianity, even if those influenced by it are not practicing Christians in any religious sense. -- Joan W. Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study As in all his writings, Anidjar always surprises us by seeing connections where others have missed them. In this challenging book, he brilliantly excavates the meanings of blood in Christianity as well as how those meanings persist in our world in barely secularized form. -- David Biale, author of Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians Blood is first of all language, style, thought in writing. Blood is relentlessly compelling, a joyful destruction of trivialities, a delight of erudition. Blood is moved by epistemic urgency and internal critique, it answers the need for historical perspective, guided by the desire to understand what we are politically made of. Blood looks at the way blood speaks and is spoken, how it governs and rules over us, how it shapes the Christian nation, the state and the economy. Our obsession with blood is not a thing of the past, it is our absolute present time. Blood is not a metaphor, it is an organizing principle. Blood is not what Harvey discovered, something that would always have been known to us. It is what the Eucharist partakes of and brings up: the community of blood, blood piety--soon the purity of blood. And from these are derived our theory and politics, kinship and race, science and religion, literature and dreams, technology and bodies. Blood is an exceptionally powerful and fascinating object to be read, kept on a shelf--and meditated. -- Dominique Pestre, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales In this highly original book Anidjar deconstructs 'Christianity' into its element: blood. In doing so he demonstrates, with impressive skill, the ubiquity of blood-and its metamorphoses-in Christian history. In this exploration of the circulation of blood as the life of nation, state, and capital, the reader is presented with an extraordinary account of modernity no less. Scholars of modernity will learn to see 'Christianity' as something at once more and less than 'religion'-even though it is, as Anidjar argues, the (misleading) prototype of all religions.' This is a work to be read carefully and its implications pondered over. -- Talal Asad, CUNY Graduate Center Every once in awhile one encounters a book that makes one ask: 'why has this not been written before?' How could we have overlooked the importance of blood? What is it? A fact, metaphor, substance, medium, or element in which we live and move? A bloodbath? Or are we merely the tub, the tubes, and plumbing in which the essence of life and symbol of violent death gurgles and flows. Anidjar has identified, not a bright red line, but an entire circulatory system that links religion, race, economics, the state, the family, and biology. This is a book that will not so much be read as injected into all these discourses, infecting them with a necessary and viral critique. A brilliant achievement by one of the most original intellects of our time. -- W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, editor of Critical Inquiry Ambitious and daring... Blood is bound to provoke heated discussion... Immanent Frame Academic books can dazzle for a variety of reasons. Some projects are so painstakingly, meticulously researched that, even though the subject matter is sometimes dry and often only ever capable of appealing to a highly specific audience, they command respect. Other works are written with such finesse and linguistic dexterity that they dazzle with their glimmering sheen of intellectual bravura. Yet others become cornerstones of the academic canon because of their wide-reaching implications in many diverse disciplines. Blood: A Critique of Christianity is that rare combination that manages all three. A project of soaring ambition and incredible scope, Gil Anidjar attempts to weave a narrative constructed from-and soaked in-the cultural, social, political history of blood within Christianity and, by extension, the entire Western world. Oxonian Review Gil Anidjar's Blood: A Critique of Christianity is a consuming book - a fierce intelligence combined with compelling readings of everything and anything related to the mechanics of circulation, the rhythmic splattered arcs, the media and metaphysics, the diseases born within and carried by the blood. Syndicate - John Modern Gil Anidjar academia's Quentin Tarantino. Both men have rewritten the history of the modern West as a history of blood... One can only wish Anidjar's work Tarantinoesque popularity. Syndicate - Bettina Bildhauer Blood: A Critique of Christianity offers a dazzling and occasionally maddening meditation on the theme of blood in Christianity and Western culture... As a commentary on literature and western thought, Blood is delightful and convincing. Syndicate - Brittany Pheiffer Noble This book designs to provoke, not persuade. It uses history not to make arguments, but to pose questions... There is much to admire in the book... The sheer number of surprising hypotheses will generate some brilliant ones. Syndicate - Eugene Rogers Blood is a book every Christian should read. Journal of the Conference on Faith and HistoryTable of ContentsPreface: Why I Am Such a Good Christian Acknowledgments Introduction: Red Mythology Part One. The Vampire State 1. Nation (Jesus' Kin) 2. State (The Vampire State) 3. Capital (Christians and Money) Part Two. Hematologies 4. Odysseus' Blood 5. Bleeding and Melancholia 6. Leviathan and the Blood Pump Conclusion: On the Christian Question (Jesus and Monotheism ) Notes Index
£91.52
Columbia University Press Blood
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is bound to become a standard against which future scholarship on the cultural history of Christianity and several related fields will be evaluated. It achieves the feat of offering an exhaustive genealogy of the significance of "blood" in Western civilization, thereby pulling blood into an urgently needed visibility. -- Elisabeth Weber, University of California, Santa Barbara This is an original reading of the place of blood in Christian theology and religion and its far-reaching impact on the history and cultural practices of the West. It is distinguished by the singular voice of its author, who is at once fiercely critical, ironic, contemptuous, erudite, and enlightening as he engages thinkers both living and dead on the relationship between blood and its many metaphoric and literal representations. This is not a conventional book in any way, it is a manifesto, a call, if not to arms, then to recognition of the fact that Western thought, its social and political organization, is infused with Christianity, even if those influenced by it are not practicing Christians in any religious sense. -- Joan W. Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study As in all his writings, Anidjar always surprises us by seeing connections where others have missed them. In this challenging book, he brilliantly excavates the meanings of blood in Christianity as well as how those meanings persist in our world in barely secularized form. -- David Biale, author of Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians Blood is first of all language, style, thought in writing. Blood is relentlessly compelling, a joyful destruction of trivialities, a delight of erudition. Blood is moved by epistemic urgency and internal critique, it answers the need for historical perspective, guided by the desire to understand what we are politically made of. Blood looks at the way blood speaks and is spoken, how it governs and rules over us, how it shapes the Christian nation, the state and the economy. Our obsession with blood is not a thing of the past, it is our absolute present time. Blood is not a metaphor, it is an organizing principle. Blood is not what Harvey discovered, something that would always have been known to us. It is what the Eucharist partakes of and brings up: the community of blood, blood piety--soon the purity of blood. And from these are derived our theory and politics, kinship and race, science and religion, literature and dreams, technology and bodies. Blood is an exceptionally powerful and fascinating object to be read, kept on a shelf--and meditated. -- Dominique Pestre, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales In this highly original book Anidjar deconstructs 'Christianity' into its element: blood. In doing so he demonstrates, with impressive skill, the ubiquity of blood-and its metamorphoses-in Christian history. In this exploration of the circulation of blood as the life of nation, state, and capital, the reader is presented with an extraordinary account of modernity no less. Scholars of modernity will learn to see 'Christianity' as something at once more and less than 'religion'-even though it is, as Anidjar argues, the (misleading) prototype of all religions.' This is a work to be read carefully and its implications pondered over. -- Talal Asad, CUNY Graduate Center Every once in awhile one encounters a book that makes one ask: 'why has this not been written before?' How could we have overlooked the importance of blood? What is it? A fact, metaphor, substance, medium, or element in which we live and move? A bloodbath? Or are we merely the tub, the tubes, and plumbing in which the essence of life and symbol of violent death gurgles and flows. Anidjar has identified, not a bright red line, but an entire circulatory system that links religion, race, economics, the state, the family, and biology. This is a book that will not so much be read as injected into all these discourses, infecting them with a necessary and viral critique. A brilliant achievement by one of the most original intellects of our time. -- W. J. T. Mitchell, University of Chicago, editor of Critical Inquiry Ambitious and daring... Blood is bound to provoke heated discussion... Immanent Frame Academic books can dazzle for a variety of reasons. Some projects are so painstakingly, meticulously researched that, even though the subject matter is sometimes dry and often only ever capable of appealing to a highly specific audience, they command respect. Other works are written with such finesse and linguistic dexterity that they dazzle with their glimmering sheen of intellectual bravura. Yet others become cornerstones of the academic canon because of their wide-reaching implications in many diverse disciplines. Blood: A Critique of Christianity is that rare combination that manages all three. A project of soaring ambition and incredible scope, Gil Anidjar attempts to weave a narrative constructed from-and soaked in-the cultural, social, political history of blood within Christianity and, by extension, the entire Western world. Oxonian Review Gil Anidjar's Blood: A Critique of Christianity is a consuming book - a fierce intelligence combined with compelling readings of everything and anything related to the mechanics of circulation, the rhythmic splattered arcs, the media and metaphysics, the diseases born within and carried by the blood. Syndicate - John Modern Gil Anidjar academia's Quentin Tarantino. Both men have rewritten the history of the modern West as a history of blood... One can only wish Anidjar's work Tarantinoesque popularity. Syndicate - Bettina Bildhauer Blood: A Critique of Christianity offers a dazzling and occasionally maddening meditation on the theme of blood in Christianity and Western culture... As a commentary on literature and western thought, Blood is delightful and convincing. Syndicate - Brittany Pheiffer Noble This book designs to provoke, not persuade. It uses history not to make arguments, but to pose questions... There is much to admire in the book... The sheer number of surprising hypotheses will generate some brilliant ones. Syndicate - Eugene Rogers Blood is a book every Christian should read. Journal of the Conference on Faith and HistoryTable of ContentsPreface: Why I Am Such a Good Christian Acknowledgments Introduction: Red Mythology Part One. The Vampire State 1. Nation (Jesus' Kin) 2. State (The Vampire State) 3. Capital (Christians and Money) Part Two. Hematologies 4. Odysseus' Blood 5. Bleeding and Melancholia 6. Leviathan and the Blood Pump Conclusion: On the Christian Question (Jesus and Monotheism ) Notes Index
£26.60
Columbia University Press Nietzsche Versus Paul
Book SynopsisA fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's engagement with the work of Paul the Apostle, reorienting the relationship between the two thinkers while embedding modern philosophy within early Christian theology.Trade ReviewWritten in a precise and economical style, crystallizing its points with aphoristic clarity, Nietzsche Versus Paul reconstructs a series of "Christian" moments found throughout the Nietzschean corpus and so reveals a surprisingly consistent, sophisticated, and cunning structure. This contribution goes far beyond the circles of Nietzsche scholarship, where it will certainly be received as a fresh and powerful intervention. Indeed, it is an original conceptualization of atheism, nihilism, secularization, and modernity as well, and will be warmly received by scholars of philosophy and religion, especially, those interested in their intersection. -- Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley Nietzsche versus Paul is a wonderful, philosophically engaging book, meticulous -- even relentless -- in its argumentation, arresting in its interpretive scope, and dedicated to the surprisingly neglected presence of Christianity in Nietzsche. -- Gil Anidjar, Columbia University A brilliant reconstructive projective which fills a genuine lacuna in recent scholarship in history, philosophy, and theology alike. Nietzsche versus Paul is coherent, well formulated, and of extraordinary importance for all of the larger philosophical and historical discussions which have emerged, surprisingly, to become some of the most pressing 'theory' topics of our time. -- Ward Blanton, University of KentTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. From Dionysian Tragedy to Christianity 2. From Judaism to Christianity 3. Jesus-Christ and the Two Worlds of Early Christianity 4. Paul: The First Christian 5. Science and Art After the Death of God 6. Beyond Modern Temporality Notes Bibliography Index
£79.20
Indiana University Press The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard
Book SynopsisA fresh reading of Kierkegaard that engages an essential problem in the philosophy of religion - the difference between what is understood by reason and what must be taken on faithTrade ReviewAs the title The Paradoxical Rationality of Søren Kierkegaard suggests, Richard McCombs sets out to dispel the . . . common view that Kierkegaard is an irrationalist, especially when it comes to matters of faith. Much of the book is dedicated to the idea that despite Kierkegaard's many direct statements against reason, he is actually making an indirect case for how sensible faith in Christ really is.22.4 2014 * International Journal of Philosophiical Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1. A Pretense of Irrationalism2. Paradoxical Rationality3. Reverse Theology4. The Subtle Power of Simplicity5. A Critique of Indirect Communication6. The Figure of Socrates and the Climacean Capacity of Paradoxical Reason7. The Figure of Socrates and the Downfall of Paradoxical Reason8. The Proof of Paradoxical ReasonNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross The
Book SynopsisOffers a bold and original view of what philosophical anthropology might look likeTrade ReviewIn the end, A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross represents one of the first major Lutheran engagements with continental philosophy, and an excellent one at that. While the book is certainly not accessible to the layperson, it is accessible to pastors and teachers, and gives a helpful overview of the connections between major figures in continental philosophy and the trajectory of Bonhoeffer's philosophical and theological project. Most importantly, it is a valuable contribution at an important time that begins a conversation of depth about both philosophy that is engaged with the scandal of the cross as well as a robust Lutheran vocabulary of sanctification. * Dialog *Gregor's work is impressive along two important lines. One the one hand, he offers the uniformed or porrly informed philospher a clear and often quite detailed presentation of Bonhoeffer's systematic thought, with attention to its conscious relation not only to Lutheran theology but also to modern philosophy. On the other hand, he also threads that presentation into the contemporary philosophical context by marking important points of contact with work by such convivial thinkers as Ricoeur, Marcel, and Charles Taylor, but also Nietzsche and Heidegger, with whom discussion would be considerably more antagonistic.Sept. 2014 * International Philosophical Quarterly *Gregor has been true to his undertaking to investigate the implications of Paul's insight into the tension between philosophy and Christian faith. * Heythrop Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations 1. Philosophy, the Cross, and Human BeingPart 1 2. The Hermeneutics of the Self 3. Faith, Substance, and the Cross 4. The Incurved Self 5. The Anthropological QuestionPart 2 6. The Concreteness and Continuity of Faith 7. The Capable Human Being as a Penultimate Good 8. The Call to Responsibility 9. Reflexivity, Intentionality, and Self-understanding 10. Religion within the Limits of the Penultimate?NotesSelect BibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Theologies of American Exceptionalism
Book SynopsisHow does viewing the American project through a theological lens complicate and enrich our understanding of America? Theologies of American Exceptionalism is a collection of fifteen interlocking essays reflecting on exceptionalist claims in and about the United States. Loosely and generatively curious, these essays bring together a range of historical and contemporary voices, some familiar and some less so, to stimulate new thought about America. Thinking theologically allows authors to revisit familiar themes and events with a new perspective; old and new wounds, enduring narratives, and the sacrificial violence at the heart of America are examined while avoiding both the triumphalism of the exceptional and the temptations of the jeremiad. Thinking theologically also involves thinking, as Joseph Winters recommends, with the unmourned. It allows for an understanding of America as fundamentally religious in a very specific way. Together these essays challenge the reader to think AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on the Print EditionPrefaceLove1. Familiar Commerce and Covenantal Love, by Constance Furey2. A Yet Unapproachable America, by Matthew Scherer3. The Promise of Immanent Critique, by Joseph WintersFiction4. "A History of America": Comments on Johnson v M'Intosh, by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan5. The Great American Novel, by M. Cooper Harriss6. Memories of the Future, by W. Clark GilpinRevolution7. Revolution as Revelation, by Spencer Dew8. Exceptional Americanism, by Noah Salomon9. Unexceptionable Islam, by Faisal DevjiCommerce10. The America-Game, by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd11. American Techno-Optimism, by Lisa H. Sideris12. Sovereign Exceptionality, by Elisabeth AnkerChosen13. The Judeo-Christian Tradition, by Shaul Magid14. Sacrifice, by Stephanie Frank15. Two Theologies of Chosenness, by Benjamin L. BergerAppendixContributors
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Indiana University Press Theologies of American Exceptionalism
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsNote on the Print EditionPrefaceLove1. Familiar Commerce and Covenantal Love, by Constance Furey2. A Yet Unapproachable America, by Matthew Scherer3. The Promise of Immanent Critique, by Joseph WintersFiction4. "A History of America": Comments on Johnson v M'Intosh, by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan5. The Great American Novel, by M. Cooper Harriss6. Memories of the Future, by W. Clark GilpinRevolution7. Revolution as Revelation, by Spencer Dew8. Exceptional Americanism, by Noah Salomon9. Unexceptionable Islam, by Faisal DevjiCommerce10. The America-Game, by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd11. American Techno-Optimism, by Lisa H. Sideris12. Sovereign Exceptionality, by Elisabeth AnkerChosen13. The Judeo-Christian Tradition, by Shaul Magid14. Sacrifice, by Stephanie Frank15. Two Theologies of Chosenness, by Benjamin L. BergerAppendixContributors
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University of Notre Dame Press The Preferential Option for the Poor beyond
Book SynopsisSince the 1973 publication of Gustavo Gutiérrez's groundbreaking work A Theology of Liberation, liberation theology''s central premise of the preferential option for the poor has become one of the most important yet controversial theological themes of the twentieth century. As the situation for many of the world's poor worsens, it becomes ever more important to ensure that the option for the poor remains not only a vibrant theological concept but also a practical framework for living out the gift and challenge of Christian faith. The Preferential Option for the Poor beyond Theology draws on a diverse group of contributors to explore how disciplines as varied as law, economics, politics, the environment, science, liberal arts, film, and education can help us understand putting a commitment to the option for the poor into practice. The central focus of the book revolves around the question: How can one live a Christian life in a world of destitution? The contributTrade Review"This is a timely, rich, and thought-provoking book. In the midst of a widening gap between rich and poor, a growing knowledge of the plight of the excluded, and a renaissance of a call to solidarity in the Church, the contributions remind us that there is a lot that can be done to alleviate poverty. This book with its interdisciplinary approach encourages us to think of solutions. A preferential option for the poor as a firm commitment of thought and action can be extended beyond the boundaries of theology. Gustavo Gutiérrez, the living icon of this option, and Daniel G. Groody, a respected authority on this topic, take us on a journey that is intellectually and culturally encouraging." —Clemens Sedmak, F.D. Maurice Professor of Moral and Social Theology, King's College London“Daniel G. Groody and Gustavo Gutiérrez have given us a series of testimonies to the significance of the preferential option for the poor in the lives of authors writing from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. By fostering such interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary conversation, the authors deepen our understanding of the concept and show us its relevance outside of theology. That the poor become subjects of history, and not only its objects, lies at the core of the liberation theological approach of Gustavo Gutiérrez; it reflects an approach to challenges that is at least as necessary as our technological, political, and economic approaches and, by so doing, touches on important theological issues.” —Jacques Haers, University of Antwerp“Tackling one of theology’s most important yet controversial issues, Groody and Gutiérrez ensure that the option for the poor remains a framework for living a Christian life.” —U.S. Catholic“Drawing on a diverse group of contributors to explore how various disciplines such as law, economics, politics, the environment, science, liberal arts, film, and education can shed light on a commitment to the poor into practice. The book explores the question of how to live as a Christian in a world of destitution.” —Notre Dame Works“[Essayists] look at the way the option for the poor can shape our social, economic, political, educational and environmental approaches to poverty.” —Notre Dame Magazine"[T]he book's value is clear: if enacting true change around the problem of poverty requires input from many disciplines, then those disciplines must be brought into conversation with one another. . . . This volume should interest a broad audience, including scholars; general readers interested in the question of poverty as it relates to various disciplines and industries; and undergraduate or graduate students in classes covering liberation theology, as a needed complement to theological approaches." —Choice“. . . this book could not be more timely and relevant. . . . Each of the twelve chapters provides an inspiring and gripping testimony by a scholar or professional and their efforts to integrate the POP with their work as a lawyer, economist, businessperson, biologist, politician, professor, teacher, physician, filmmaker, or advocate for justice.”—Catholic Library World“The essays are well written, personal, and yet replete with each author’s expertise . . . . The authors skillfully and clearly point out that the option for the poor is both personally unique and socially transformative.” —American Catholic Studies“One of Gutiérrez’s key insights into missionary engagement was what is referred to as ‘a preferential option for the poor.’ . . . The importance of this publication is that while making an option for the poor can involve living in solidarity with the oppressed, the various authors demonstrate that it means “One of Gutiérrez’s key insights into missionary engagement was what is referred to as ‘a preferential option for the poor.’ . . . The importance of this publication is that while making an option for the poor can involve living in solidarity with the oppressed, the various authors demonstrate that it means above all using the skills and qualifications that one had gained in order to be in solidarity with those who are oppressed in their struggles for justice and dignity.” —Mission Studies, Volume 32, 2015above all using the skills and qualifications that one had gained in order to be in solidarity with those who are oppressed in their struggles for justice and dignity.” —Mission Studies
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Pennsylvania State University Press The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha
Book SynopsisInvestigates an incident of holy relic theft in Rome, the lengthy legal case that followed it, and the larger questions that surrounded saints’ remains in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe.Trade Review“A very well written and argued microhistory that tells us much about how useful saints were within the post-Tridentine period. It also does wider scholarship the service of reminding even scholars who should know better that the history of relics, true and false, did not end with the Middle Ages. Harris has a mastery of the relevant literature in several languages which is both impressive and used to telling effect.”—Simon Ditchfield,University of York“The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha is fascinating and opens a window to discuss several crucial features of early modern cultural and intellectual history. Harris’s ability to draw all these features together and put them into the context of existing scholarship is impressive.”—Stefania Tutino,University of California, Los Angeles
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University of California Press Dangerous Games
Book SynopsisThe 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. This book explores both the history and the sociological significance of this panic. It is suitable for those with an interest in religion, popular culture, and social behavior, both in the classroom and beyond.Trade Review"Dangerous Games presents a detailed and multi-layered history of the social realities surrounding Role Playing Games (RPGs), analyzing a complex legacy of cultural and religious epistemologies, in order to argue that the corresponding moral panic over such games is itself a form of dangerous corrupted play. . . . Overall, Dangerous Games is an important read for students and scholars of contemporary history, religion, popular culture, and mythology." * Nova Religio *"Dangerous Games is a necessary interjection into the conversation between fantasy role-playing and the hysteria over violent-themed play . . . [and] charges players to keep rolling on, and for those who question such games to reflect on what exactly they find so repugnant from an exploration of imagination and play." * Reading Religion *"Worth reading for the detailed and nuanced history of fantasy role-playing games in and of itself, the book’s supplementary focus on tragic events that were widely linked to role-playing games is engrossing. . . . But Laycock’s greatest achievement is shooting a silver bullet straight into the heart of moral, media and satanic panics by positing that society’s discomfort with role-playing games is rooted in a discomfort with imagination." * Times Higher Education *"This book deserves a place in the library of any scholar of games as cultural texts—and especially those interested in religion and games." * American Journal of Play *"This book will be useful for those who wish to explore the intersections of religion and popular culture. . . .clear and convincing." * Religious Studies Review *Table of ContentsPreface. "You Worship Gods from Books!" Introduction. Fantasy and Reality PART I. THE HISTORY OF THE PANIC 1. The Birth of Fantasy Role-Playing Games 2. Dungeons & Dragons as Religious Phenomenon 3. Pathways into Madness: 1979--1982 4. Satanic Panic: 1982--1991 5. A World of Darkness: 1991--2001 PART II. INTERPRETING THE PANIC 6. How Role-Playing Games Create Meaning 7. How the Imagination Became Dangerous 8. Rival Fantasies Conclusion. Walking between Worlds Notes Bibliography Index
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Princeton University Press American Misfits and the Making of MiddleClass
Book SynopsisTrade Review"American Misfits is filled with colorful anecdotes, lively characters, and sharp social analysis. One of America's leading sociologists, Robert Wuthnow shows that respectability is rarely about respecting others but rather about identifying others to malign for their deficiencies and offenses."—Leigh Eric Schmidt, Washington University in St. Louis"This is an outstanding book—impressively researched, boldly argued with interdisciplinary breadth, and innovative in the way it depicts the middle-class American dream as perpetually fleeting and tenuous, marked off by day-to-day practices of the rank-and-file and prone to negotiation among those who seek to patrol the boundaries of belonging. It is also a riveting read, driven by rich description and detailed investigation of countless colorful characters who have tested those boundaries and found themselves held up as test cases of what America should and shouldn't look like, and who should and shouldn't be counted as respectable citizens."—Darren Dochuk, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 1 A Relational Approach: The Social Construction of Respect and Respectability 19 2 Worked as a Huckster: Moral Connotations of Placeless Labor 39 3 An Incurable Lunatic: Pension Politics in the Struggle for Respectability 70 4 Not a Fanatic: Zeal in the Cause of Zion 101 5 Dying Young: Immigrant Congregations as Moral Communities 135 6 Excessive Profits: Wealth, Morality, and the Common People 187 7 Naughty Children: Moral Instruction by Negative Example 227 8 Othering: Cultural Diversity and Symbolic Boundaries 258 Notes 267 Selected Bibliography 307 Index 327
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Princeton University Press The Origin of the Jews
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Education and Jewish Identity (In Memory of Dorothy Kripke)"
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Princeton University Press American Misfits and the Making of MiddleClass
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation The Enlightenment in Bohemia Religion Morality
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe book’s contributors provide a wealth of information that reveals the patterns of Enlightenment in Central Europe. […] The research shows Bohemian intellectual circles’ facility with multiple languages, social diversity, variety of organizations and institutions for intellectual exchange, and the convergence of secular ideas, French and German Protestant influenecs, and both the reformed and conservative strands of Catholicism and Judaism.- Austrian History YearbookTable of ContentsIvo Cerman, Introduction: the Enlightenment in BohemiaI. Enlightenment institutions and mediaRita Krueger, The scientific academy and beyond: the institutions of the EnlightenmentIvo Cerman, The Enlightenment universitiesClaire Madl and Michael Wögerbauer, Censorship and book supplyHelga Meise, Morality, fiction and manners in the moral weeklies in PragueAndreas Önnerfors, Freemasonry and civil society: reform of manners and the Journal für Freymaurer (1784-1786)II. The construction of a secular morality?Ivo Cerman, Ethics and natural law: Jesuit Wolffianism in Prague 1750-1773Ivo Cerman, Secular moral philosophy: Karl Heinrich SeibtIvo Cerman, Moral anthropology of Joseph Nikolaus WindischgrätzIII. Towards a Josephist moral theologyMartin Gaži, The Enlightenment from below: the Catholic regular clergy in Bohemia and MoraviaJaroslav Lorman, The concept of moral theology of Augustin Zippe, a moral theologian at the turn of the epochIV. Morality in the Jewish worldPavel Sládek, Ezekiel Landau (1713-1793) – a political rabbiLouise Hecht, The Haskalah in Bohemia and Moravia: a gendered perspectiveRachel Manekin, The moral education of Jewish youth: the case of Bne ZionDavid Sorkin, Afterword: the Enlightenment – Bohemian style?
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Voltaire Foundation Ouvres compl232tes de Voltaire Complete Works of
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Voltaire Foundation Œuvres complètes de Voltaire Complete Works of
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Voltaire Foundation Ouvres compl232tes de Voltaire Complete Works of
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Pluto Press Cults Martyrs and Good Samaritans
Book SynopsisChristianity's multifaceted role in English political discourse.Trade Review'Crossley shifts decisively to analysing the last decade of English politics and its intersections with religion - all in the context of Brexit, Islam and the rediscovery of a socialist left. Sharp analysis, insights aplenty, a major contribution to serious political debate in the UK' -- Roland Boer, Xin Ao Distinguished Overseas Professor at Renmin University of China, Beijing, Research Professor at the University of NewcastleTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Religion in English Political Discourse, 1979-2017: A Brief History 2. Brexit Means Christmas, Christmas Means Socialism, and a Time for 'Homosexual Sex': Shifting Notions of Religion from the Frontbenches 3. Muslims, the 'Perversion of Islam', and Christian England on the (Far) Right 4. Brexit Barrow: Religion in Real-Time During a Summer of Political Chaos 5. Manufacturing Dissent from the Centre: Cults, Corbyn and the Guardian 6. Red Apocalypticism on the Corbynite Left: Martyrdom, Rojava and the Bob Crow Brigade Epilogue Notes Index
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Lion Hudson Beyond Human Science and the Changing Face of
Book SynopsisWhere does humanity end and something else begin?Trade Review"Science promises to change, perfect, and even immortalize us. But how far can it go without damaging our fundamental humanity? John Bryant supplies a masterly, readable, and deeply informed critique of the current arguments based upon extensive original research. `Beyond Human’ must be reckoned essential reading for everyone concerned about the deepening chasm between scientific and technological possibilities and ethical, humane, and just conduct." -- Alan Chapman“a heart-felt discussion of thorny ethical conundrums” -- Shara Zaval * Publishers Weekly *“I commend this book to anyone who is concerned to understand the revolution in bio medicine and is prepared to think through the ethical and moral implications...” * Evangelicals Now *The pros and cons of the developments described are well set out and many illustrative stories add a human touch and prevent dry debate. Those who like clear cut answers won’t find them here, but those who are looking for an update on what is going on in the laboratory world with the ethical complexities highlighted, Beyond Human? should prove stimulating and thought provoking. -- Caroline Berry * Third Way *Table of ContentsCONTENTSForeword 91 Starting from the Beginning 131.1 Beyond what? 131.2 Being human: the origins and early evolution of humankind 161.3 Corn and community, cities and civilization 192 The Way We Were 252.1 Introduction 252.2 Shifting power bases in the ancient world 262.3 Religion in the ancient world 272.4 Into Europe 282.5 Post-Roman Britain 292.6 Moving away from Rome 312.7 Science, culture and religion 312.8 The Industrial Revolution and the age of invention 342.9 Science, culture and religion revisited 362.10 Into the twentieth century 372.11 Some thoughts on the story so far 413 The Way We Are 453.1 Introduction 453.2 Communism and capitalism 463.3 Israel and Palestine 513.4 The European Union 533.5 The 1960s 543.6 Northern Ireland 593.7 Terrorism and war 613.8 Power bases shift again 643.9 Science, religion and culture 653.10 Human society: fraying round the edges or cracking down the middle? 703.11 After World War II: a final comment 744 Morals, Ethics and Complex Issues 774.1 Introduction 774.2 Ethical systems 784.3 A brief excursion into postmodernism 854.4 Application of ethics in medicine 874.5 Extending the ethical vision 895 Genes, Genetics and Human Disease 935.1 Introduction 935.2 Early understanding 945.3 Genes and medicine: the early years 955.4 The new genetic revolution 995.5 Science, sequences and sickness 1026 Genetic Testing and Diagnosis: The Good, the Bad and the Muddly 1136.1 Genetic testing and diagnosis 1136.2 Prenatal and pre-implantation testing: wider ethical issues 1236.3 A gene for this and a gene for that 1336.4 Concluding remarks 1387 Medical Technology: From Gamete to Grave 1417.1 Introduction 1417.2 The art of reproduction: from donor insemination to test-tube babies 1427.3 Gene therapy 1497.4 Repair, replacement and renewal 1527.5 Three score years and then 1677.6 … and then: when am I dead and when may I die? 1717.7 Whatever next? 1778 Chips with Everything: Computers, Information and Communications Technologies 1818.1 Introduction 1818.2 Alan Turing and the dawn of the computer age 1828.3 The age of computers: the digital age 1858.4 How things have changed 1868.5 Networking 1888.6 The digital divide 1898.7 The darker side of digital technology 1918.8 Concluding remarks 2019 Transhumanism: Stronger, Faster, Better, Older? 2059.1 Introduction 2059.2 Transhumanism: biomedical 2079.3 Transhumanism: pharmacological 2219.4 Transhumanism: digital 2239.5 Transhumanism: biomechanical 2299.6 The “super-soldier” programme 2309.7 Concluding comments 23010 Beyond Human? 23510.1 Introduction 23510.2 The angel and the beast 23610.3 Fair shares for all? 23710.4 Fiddling while home burns 23910.5 Better humans? 24210.6 Postscript 244Index 246
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SPCK Publishing Good Disagreement
Book SynopsisCan the Church of England find a way of disagreeing without being disagreeable - or splitting entirely?Table of ContentsContentsContributors ixForewordArchbishop of Canterbury xi1 Disagreeing with GraceAndrew Atherstone and Andrew Goddard 12 Reconciliation in the New TestamentIan Paul 233 Division and Discipline in the New Testament ChurchMichael B. Thompson 434 Pastoral Theology for Perplexing Topics: Paul and AdiaphoraTom Wright 635 Good Disagreement and the ReformationAshley Null 836 Ecumenical (Dis)agreementsAndrew Atherstone and Martin Davie 1097 Good Disagreement between ReligionsToby Howarth 1318 From Castles to Conversations: Reflections on How to Disagree WellLis Goddard and Clare Hendry 1519 Ministry in Samaria: Peacemaking at Truro ChurchTory Baucum 17110 Mediation and the Church’s MissionStephen Ruttle 195Notes 219
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University of British Columbia Press Defining Harm
Book SynopsisIn the past several years religion has increasingly become an integral component of discussions about diversity and multiculturalism in Canada. Of particular concern has been the formulation of limits on religious freedom. Defining Harm explores the ways in which religion and religious freedom are conceptualized and regulated in a cultural context of fear of the other and religious extremism.Drawing from literature on risk society, governance, feminist legal theory, and religious rights, Lori Beaman looks at the case of Jehovah's Witness Bethany Hughes who was denied her right to refuse treatment on the basis of her religious conviction. The B.H. case, as it was known in the courts, reflects a particular moment in the socio-legal treatment of religious freedom and reveals the specific intersection of religious, medical, legal, and other discourses in the governance of the religious citizen.A powerful examination of the governance of a religious citizeTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction: The Culture of Fear and the Risk Paradigm2 Body, Mind, and Soul: The Notion of Governance3 Risk and Excess4 A Free and Informed Will5 Conclusion: Governmentality, Risk, and Religious FreedomNotesReferencesIndex
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University of British Columbia Press Defining Harm
Book SynopsisIn the past several years religion has increasingly become an integral component of discussions about diversity and multiculturalism in Canada. Of particular concern has been the formulation of limits on religious freedom. Defining Harm explores the ways in which religion and religious freedom are conceptualized and regulated in a cultural context of fear of the other and religious extremism.Drawing from literature on risk society, governance, feminist legal theory, and religious rights, Lori Beaman looks at the case of Jehovah's Witness Bethany Hughes who was denied her right to refuse treatment on the basis of her religious conviction. The B.H. case, as it was known in the courts, reflects a particular moment in the socio-legal treatment of religious freedom and reveals the specific intersection of religious, medical, legal, and other discourses in the governance of the religious citizen.A powerful examination of the governance of a religious citizeTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1 Introduction: The Culture of Fear and the Risk Paradigm2 Body, Mind, and Soul: The Notion of Governance3 Risk and Excess4 A Free and Informed Will5 Conclusion: Governmentality, Risk, and Religious FreedomNotesReferencesIndex
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Northwestern University Press Visionary of the Word Melville and Religion
Book SynopsisVisionary of the Word brings together the latest scholarship on Herman Melville's treatment of religion across his long career as a writer of fiction and poetry. The volume suggests the broad range of Melville's religious concerns, including his engagement with the denominational divisions of American Christianity, his dialogue with transatlantic currents in nineteenth-century religious thought, his consideration of theological and philosophical questions related to the problem of evil and determinism versus free will, and his representation of the global contact among differing faiths and cultures. These essays constitute a capacious response to the many avenues through which Melville interacted with religious faith, doubt, and secularization throughout his career, advancing our understanding of Melville as a visionary interpreter of religious experience who remains resonant in our own religiously complex era.
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The Catholic University of America Press All Great Art is Praise Art and Religion in John
Book SynopsisJohn Ruskin had an extraordinary ability to bring together aesthetics, religion, ecology, and social issues in a unitary, overarching vision, all expressed in a prose style worthy of comparison with any in the English language. This volume offers an analytic account of Ruskin’s principal writings on art, viewed through the lens of Ruskin’s religious claims.Trade Review“Impressive and ambitious . . . brings together in one volume a set of comments on most of Ruskin’s art writings.” —William McKeown, The University of Memphis
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The Catholic University of America Press Spiraling Into God Bonaventure on Grace
Book SynopsisOffers a systematic account of the Seraphic Doctor's doctrine of grace across his speculative-academic, mystical, hagiographical, and pastoral texts. The book does so by arguing that an account of this kind can only be provided by also attending to his theology of hierarchy.
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Ideas to Live For
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SPCK Publishing Jesus Right Where You Want Him
Book SynopsisA first book of apologetics, written in a punchy, easy-to-read style.Trade Review“I enjoy Phil Moore’s books. He writes about Jesus and the Christian life with perception, wisdom and wit.” -- Nicky Gumbel“Jesus loved responding to confrontation. Phil Moore has provided you with an excellent resource to help you grill Jesus with your toughest questions and to hear him respond from the pages of the Bible.” -- Terry Virgo, founder of NewfrontiersI love reading Phil Moore’s books. He’s always fresh and hugely thought-provoking.” -- Andrew Wilson, author of If God, Then What?
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SPCK Publishing What Good is God
Book SynopsisAn insightful collection of articles investigating practical and faith reponses to disasters.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 9 Introduction 10 Chapter 1. Disasters: Natural or Unnatural? 19Robert White Chapter 2. Disasters, Injustice, and the Goodness of Creation 36Jonathan Moo Chapter 3. “What Good is God?” Disasters, Faith,and Resilience 55Roger Abbott Chapter 4. Physician Heal Thyself: His Grace is Sufficient 73Linda Mobula Chapter 5. Disasters, Blame, and Forgiveness (with Special Reference to the“Lockerbie Disaster”) 90John Mosey Chapter 6. Haitian Womanhood, Faith, and Earthquakes 109Marie and Lucie Chapter 7. Disaster: What Survivors Think, and How Best to Help 124Luc Honorat Chapter 8. How One Church Survived Hurricane Katrina (and What They Learned, with the Help of God) 138Ken Taylor Chapter 9. Climate Change: A Disaster in Progress 154Hugh Rollinson Chapter 10. COVID-19 Pandemic: A Christian Perspective 171Robert White and Roger Abbott Afterword 185Roger Abbott and Robert White
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Liverpool University Press The Earliest Advocates of the English Bible The
Book SynopsisOne of the major debates in English cultural, literary and religious history concerned whether or not the Bible should be translated into English.Trade ReviewThis is an important body of texts that needs to be available in a convenient modern format. These materials are of fundamental significance for the English debate about translation of religious materials into the vernacular in the early fifteenth century. Vincent GillespieFor almost all these texts, Dove represents the first complete, published critical edition; moreover, the edition is exceptionally easy to use, with text, glosses and biblical references, and apparatus appearing side-by-side on each page. J. Patrick Hornbeck, Ecclesiastical History, Volume 63/3 * Ecclesiastical History, Volume 63/3 *The texts are admirably edited. ... in the clarity of its presentation and a generous use of space, this is a most user-friendly volume (on the same lines as Exeter’s excellent The Idea of the Vernacular: An Anthology of Middle English Literary Theory 1280-1520, published in 1999). It is one of the most useful I have come across for some time—the sort that prompts the question, why has this not been done before? It should become an essential sourcebook for future work on the Bible in English in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and is a fitting tribute to a fine scholar, who died with so much more still to give. Richard Marsden, The Medieval Review, 12.05.15 * The Medieval Review, 12.05.15 *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: • discusses the context and significance of the debate about the English Bible • outlines the contents, authorship, date and manuscript tradition of the texts in this edition • considers the extent to which the texts may be seen as Wycliffite, and the interplay of orthodoxy and non-orthodoxy in the Bible debate and in pre-1409 England. TEXTS: 1. The Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible 2. The Prologue to Isaiah and the Prophets 3. Twelve tracts advocating translation in Cambridge University Library Ii. 6. 26 4. First seiþ Bois 5. The holi prophete Dauid 6. Glossed Gospel prologues and epilogues 7. ‘In þe bigynnyng of Holi Chirche’ 8. Pater Noster II The texts are an accurate representation of the base manuscript, with modern punctuation. Significant variants are recorded in the apparatus. The commentary focuses on elucidating context and meaning; textual and linguistic questions will be addressed where they affect meaning. Where the literal meaning may not immediately be clear to a reader moderately familiar with Middle English, translational glosses is provided alongside the text. There is also a short glossary and an index of biblical quotations and of non-biblical sources.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and
Book SynopsisIn the face of the current environmental crisis which clearly has moral and spiritual dimensions members of all the world s faiths have come to recognize the critical importance of religion s relationship to ecology.Table of ContentsList of Contributors ix Foreword xvii Bartholomew I, Ecumenical Patriarch Preface xix Acknowledgments xxxi I. Religions and Ecological Consciousness 1 Ecology Perspectives from Diverse Religious and Spiritual Traditions 1 God is Absolute Reality and All Creation His Tajallı̄ (Theophany) 3Seyyed Hossein Nasr 2 Swaraj: From Chipko to Navdanya 12Vandana Shiva 3 Eco‐Kabbalah: Holism and Mysticism in Earth‐Centered Judaism 20David Mevorach Seidenberg 4 Laudato Sí in the Earth Commons—Integral Ecology and Socioecological Ethics 37John Hart 5 神の大経綸: The Great Divine Plan: Kotama Okada’s Vision for Spiritual Civilization in the Twenty‐First Century 54Kōō Okada 6 In the Time of the Sacred Places 71Winona LaDuke 7 Eco‐Theology in the African Diaspora 85Dianne D. Glave 8 Buddhist Interdependence and the Elemental Life 90Christopher Key Chapple 9 Theodao: Integrating Ecological Consciousness in Daoism, Confucianism, and Christian Theology 104Heup Young Kim II. Care for the Earth and Life 115 Traditions’ Teachings in Socioecological Contexts 10 Science, Ecology, and Christian Theology 117John F. Haught 11 Exploring Environmental Ethics in Islam: Insights from the Qur’an and the Practice of Prophet Muhammad 130Fazlun M. Khalid 12 Science and Religion: Conflict or Concert? 146Francisco J. Ayala 13 The Serpent in Eden and in Africa: Religions and Ecology 163Kapya J. Kaoma 14 Jewish Environmental Ethics: The Imperative of Responsibility 179Hava Tirosh‐Samuelson 15 Ecowomanism and Ecological Reparations 195Melanie L. Harris 16 From Climate Debt to Climate Justice: God’s Love Embodied in Garden Earth 203Cynthia Moe‐Lobeda 17 The Vision of St. Maximus the Confessor: That Creation May All Be One 220Elizabeth Theokritoff III. Ecological Commitment 237 Contextualization of Traditions in Diverse Contexts, Cultures, and Circumstances 18 From Social Justice to Creation Justice in the Anthropocene 239Larry L. Rasmussen 19 Christianity, Ecofeminism, and Transformation 256Heather Eaton 20 The Face of God in the World: Insights from the Orthodox Christian Tradition 273John Chryssavgis 21 Climate Change and Christian Ethics 286Michael S. Northcott 22 Islamic Environmental Teachings: Compatible with Ecofeminism? 301Nawal H. Ammar and Allison Gray 23 The Divine Environment (al‐Muhit) and the Body of God: Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Sallie McFague Resacralize Nature 315Ian S. Mevorach 24 Chondogyo and a Sacramental Commons: Korean Indigenous Religion and Christianity on Common Ground 331Yongbum Park 25 The Religious Politics of Scientific Doubt: Evangelical Christians and Environmentalism in the United States 348Myrna Perez Sheldon and Naomi Oreskes 26 The Covenant of Reciprocity 368Robin Wall Kimmerer IV. Visions for the Present and Future Earth 383 The Earth Transformed: Altered Consciousness and Conduct on Common Ground 27 Prayer as if Earth Really Matters 385Arthur Waskow 28 The Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry 394Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim 29 Earth as Community Garden: The Bounty, Healing, and Justice of Holy Permaculture 410Tallessyn Zawn Grenfell‐Lee 30 Theo‐Forming Earth Community: Meaning‐Full Creations 427Whitney A. Bauman 31 Religious Environmentalism and Environmental Activism 439Roger S. Gottlieb 32 Global Heating, Pope Francis, and the Promise of Laudato Sí 457Bill McKibben 33 Respect for Mother Earth: Original Instructions and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge 460Tom B. K. Goldtooth 34 Common Commons: Social and Sacred Space 471John Hart 35 A New Partzuf for a New Paradigm: Living Earth—An Icon for Our Age 488Zalman Shachter Shalomi and in Conversation with John Hart Afterword 505 John B. Cobb, Jr. Index 510
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The WileyBlackwell Companion to Religion and
Book SynopsisThe Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and Social Justice brings together a team of distinguished scholars to provide a comprehensive and comparative account of social justice in the major religious traditions. The first publication to offer a comparative study of social justice for each of the major world religions, exploring viewpoints within Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism Offers a unique and enlightening volume for those studying religion and social justice - a crucially important subject within the history of religion, and a significant area of academic study in the field Brings together the beliefs of individual traditions in a comprehensive, explanatory, and informative style All essays are newly-commissioned and written by eminent scholars in the field Benefits from a distinctive four-part organization, with sections on major religions; religious movements and tTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 Part I Major World Religions 13 Introduction 15 1 Buddhism: Historical Setting 17Mavis Fenn 2 Buddhism: Contemporary Expressions 30Steven Emmanuel 3 Christianity: Historical Setting 46Stanley M. Burgess 4 Christianity: Contemporary Expressions 61Curtiss Paul DeYoung 5 Confucianism: Historical Setting 77Joseph Chan 6 Confucianism: Contemporary Expressions 93Stephen C. Angle 7 Hinduism: Historical Setting 110O.P. Dwivedi 8 Hinduism: Contemporary Expressions 124Amita Singh 9 Islam: Historical Setting 137Hussam S. Timani 10 Islam: Contemporary Expressions 153Erin E. Stiles 11 Judaism: Historical Setting 170Moshe Hellinger 12 Judaism: Contemporary Expressions 190Eliezer Segal Part II Religious Movements and Themes 205 Introduction 207 13 Bahá’í Faith 210Christopher Buck 14 The Quest for Justice in Revival, a Creole Religion in Jamaica 224William Wedenoja 15 The Muhammadiyah: A Muslim Modernist Organization in Contemporary Indonesia 241Florian Pohl 16 The Role of the Chief in Asante Society 256Yaw Adu-Gyamfi 17 Tibetan Monastics and Social Justice 268Derek F. Maher 18 Sangha and Society 280Hiroko Kawanami 19 G’meelut Chasadim (Deeds of Kindness) 292W.E. Nunnally 20 Hospitality 306Ana María Pineda 21 Zakat: Faith and Giving in Muslim Contexts 319Azim Nanji 22 Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue 330Barbara Brown Zikmund Part III Indigenous People 345 Introduction 347 23 Africa: Religion and Social Justice among the Diola of Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau 350Robert M. Baum 24 Australia: Religion and Social Justice in a Continent of Hunter-Gatherers 361Robert Tonkinson 25 Central America: A God for the Poor – Folk Catholicism and Social Justice among the Yucatec Maya 373Christine A. Kray 26 Europe: The Roma People of Romania 388Sorin Gog and Maria Roth 27 Middle East: The Kurds – Religion and Social Justice of a Stateless Nation 402Charles G. MacDonald 28 New Zealand: The Māori People 412Rawinia Higgins 29 North America: Ojibwe Culture 425Gregory O. Gagnon 30 Southern Asia: The Gonds of India – A Search for Identity and Justice 438Sushma Yadav Part IV Social Justice Issues 451 Introduction 453 31 Colonialism 456Brigid M. Sackey 32 Abundant Life or Abundant Poverty? The Challenge for African Christianity 469T. John Padwick 33 AIDS, Religion, and the Politics of Social Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa 482Afe Adogame 34 Religion, Civil Rights, and Social Justice 496Paul Harvey 35 Human Rights: The South African Experience 507Glenda Wildschut 36 The “Double-Conscious” Nature of American Evangelicalism’s Struggle over Civil Rights during the Progressive Era 519L.B. Gallien, Jr. 37 Gender and Sexuality in the Context of Religion and Social Justice 535Mary E. Hunt 38 Beginning of Life 547Andrew Lustig 39 Death and Dying 561Courtney S. Campbell 40 Religion’s Influence on Social Justice Practices Relating to Those with Disabilities 575Ruth Vassar Burgess 41 Ecology and the Environment 591Laurel Kearns 42 Christianity and Nonviolent Resistance 607Celia Cook-Huffman43 Building Peace in the Pursuit of Social Justice 620Mohammed Abu-Nimer Index 633
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Importance of Religion
Book SynopsisThe Importance of Religion reveals the significance of religion in modern times, showing how it provides people with meaning to their lives and helps guide them in their everyday moral choices Provides readers with a new understanding of religion, demonstrating how in its actions, texts and world views religion is enduring and vividly engages with the mystery of the world Offers striking arguments about the relationship of religion to science, art and politics Engagingly written by a highly respected scholar of religion with an international reputation Trade Review“Finally, it should be pointed out that the book is well presented, with a wealth of interesting primary sources and secondary literature discussed. . . At any rate, the book should contribute to the ongoing debate between religionists and reductionists within our field.” (Numen, 1 May 2015) “Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through researchers/faculty.” (Choice, 1 January 2013)Table of ContentsPreface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Religion and the Human Condition 1 Mediating Our Strange World 6 Theories of Religion 8 Religion and Religions 12 Defining Religion 14 The Argument 17 Alienation and the Human Condition 17 The Primacy of Perception and the System of Signs 23 The Invisible and the Transcendent 24 The Truths of Religion 26 Conclusion 27 Part One ACTION 1 Clearing the Ground 37 Reification: The Marxist Legacy 40 Rationalization: The Weberian Legacy 44 Knowledge and Action 46 Methodology 49 Conclusion 50 2 The Meaning of Religious Action 53 The Sociology of Religious Meaning 55 Meaning and Action 58 Moral Acts 60 Ritual and the Body 63 A Rite of Affliction 66 The Meaning of Sacrifice 69 A Phenomenology of Sacrifice 71 The Meanings of Death 73 Conclusion 74 3 The Inner Journey 80 Languages of Spirituality 83 The Spiritual Habitus 91 Conclusion 95 Part Two SPEECH 4 The Reception of the Text 101 Routes to the World of Life 102 Theories of the Text 106 The Reception of Sacred Texts 109 Sacred Text and Act 111 Conclusion 113 5 Tradition, Language, and the Self 115 Linguistic Universals 117 Linguistic Relativity 118 Language and Religious Experience 122 Language as a Model of Religion 125 Conclusion 127 6 Religion and Rationality 130 What is Rationality? 131 Rational Religious Communities 139 Rationality and Cosmology 141 Conclusion 146 Part Three WORLD 7 The Mystery of Complexity and Emergence 153 A History of Antagonism 155 Complexity and Constraint 159 The Ontology of Process 164 Conclusion 166 8 The Union of Nature and Imagination 171 Art and the Real 172 Cosmological Art 175 Pavel Florensky 177 Abhinavagupta 178 Secular Art 180 Re-Spiritualizing Art 182 Conclusion 185 9 Religion and Politics 189 Religion in the Public Sphere 190 The Secular Public Sphere 195 The Traditionalist View 197 Fundamentalism 200 The Religious Citizen 201 Conclusion 205 Summary 210 Epilogue 217 References 221 Index 237
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