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Writing Religion
The Making of Turkish Alevi Islam
Häftad, 2015
803 kr
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In the late 1980s, the Alevis, at that time thought to be largely assimilated into the secular Turkish mainstream, began to assert their difference as they never had before. The question of Alevism's origins and its relation to Islam and to Turkish culture became a highly contested issue. According …
Converging on Culture
Theologians in Dialogue with Cultural Analysis and Criticism
Av Delwin Brown, Sheila Greeve Davaney m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
821 kr
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Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies. This book explores the importance of this shift by bringing together scholars from a variety of theological perspectives to analyze different contemporary …
Converging on Culture
Theologians in Dialogue with Cultural Analysis and Criticism
Av Delwin Brown, Sheila Greeve Davaney m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
634 kr
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Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies. This book explores the importance of this shift by bringing together scholars from a variety of theological perspectives to analyze different contemporary …
Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and the German Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2003
1985 kr
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81) stands as a key figure in German intellectual history, a bridge joining Luther, Leibniz, and German idealism. Despite his well-recognized importance in the history of thought, Lessing as theologian or philosopher of religion remains an enigmatic figure. Scholars …
American Pragmatism
A Religious Genealogy
Inbunden, 2003
1830 kr
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The development of Pragmatism is the most importantuely achievement in the history of American Philosophy. M. Gail Hamner here examines the European roots of the movement in a search for what makes Pragmatism uniquely American. Hamner argues that the inextricably American character of theen …
Opting for the Margins
Postmodernity and Liberation in Christian Theology
Inbunden, 2003
1170 kr
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The 'preferential option for the poor' - the idea that the poor and helpless have a claim to special consideration from society - has been one of the most significant developments in twentieth-century Christian theology. The essays in this volume show how some forms of postmodern thought and …
Making Magic
Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World
Häftad, 2004
748 kr
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Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the idea of "magic" has played a major role in defining religion and in mediating the relation of religion to science. Across these disciplines, magic has regularly been configured as a definitively non-modern …
The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy
Inbunden, 2005
2494 kr
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The recovery of Dante's metaphysics - which are very different from our own - is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called "the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy." That problem is what to make of the Comedy's claim to the status of revelation, …
Pilgrimage of Love
Moltmann on the Trinity and Christian Life
Inbunden, 2005
1940 kr
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This book engages one of the liveliest theological debates at the turn of the twenty-first century: the significance of the doctrine of the Trinity to the Christian concept of God and to its life of faith. Juergen Moltmann's social trinitarian theology constitutes the most substantial Protestant …
Moral Creativity
Paul Ricoeur and the Poetics of Possibility
Av John Wall
Inbunden, 2005
2031 kr
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John Wall argues that moral life is inherently creative. Creativity, he says, is an element not just in the expression of moral sentiments, the application of moral principles, or the formation of moral cultures, but also the very activity of living morally itself. He supports his argument by means …
Feminist Theology and the Challenge of Difference
Inbunden, 2007
1432 kr
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In the early years of contesting patriarchy in the academy and religious institutions, feminist theology often presented itself as a unified front, a sisterhood. The term "feminist theology," however, is misleading. It suggests a singular feminist purpose driven by a unified female cultural …
Melancholic Freedom
Agency and the Spirit of Politics
Inbunden, 2007
950 kr
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Why does agency -- the capacity to make choices and to act in the world -- matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity, that they embody what we value? What kinds of motivations are available for political agency and …
Melancholic Freedom
Agency and the Spirit of Politics
Häftad, 2008
487 kr
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Why does agency-the capacity to make choices and to act in the world-matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity, that they embody what we value? What kinds of motivations are available for political agency and judgment …
Plato's Ghost
Spiritualism in the American Renaissance
Inbunden, 2009
1450 kr
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In its day, spiritualism brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to séance tables and trance lectures. It has alternately been ridiculed as the apogee of fatuous credulity and hailed as a feminist movement. Its tricks have been exposed, its charlatans unmasked, and its heroes' names lost to …
Cavell, Companionship, and Christian Theology
Av Peter Dula
Inbunden, 2011
2123 kr
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In recent decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have been engaged in a vigorous debate about the status and nature of ecclesiology, and of community. In that discussion, theologians have found resources in political philosophy, particularly communitarianism and political liberalism. In …
Syncretism and Christian Tradition
Race and Revelation in the Study of Religious Mixture
Av Ross Kane
Inbunden, 2021
1540 kr
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Syncretism has been a part of Christianity from its very beginning, when early Christians expressed Jesus' Aramaic teachings in the Greek language. Defined as the phenomena of religious mixture, syncretism carries a range of connotations. In Christian theology, use of syncretism shifted from a …
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism
Inbunden, 2022
1437 kr
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Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approaches to antiracist theory and practice. The first emphasizes racial identity to the exclusion of political economy, making racialized life in America …
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism
Häftad, 2022
420 kr
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Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approaches to antiracist theory and practice. The first emphasizes racial identity to the exclusion of political economy, making racialized life in America …
Attunement
The Art and Politics of Feminist Theology
Inbunden, 2025
1139 kr
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What is a feminist theologian to do with Christianity's patriarchal inheritance? She can avoid the most patriarchal aspects of the theological tradition and seek resources for constructive work elsewhere. Or she can critique misogynistic texts and artifacts, exposing their strategies of domination …
Attunement
The Art and Politics of Feminist Theology
Häftad, 2025
378 kr
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What is a feminist theologian to do with Christianity's patriarchal inheritance? She can avoid the most patriarchal aspects of the theological tradition and seek resources for constructive work elsewhere. Or she can critique misogynistic texts and artifacts, exposing their strategies of domination …
Critique of Halakhic Reason
Divine Commandments and Social Normativity
Inbunden, 2024
1176 kr
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Norms and obligations are central components of many religious traditions. Yet they have often been neglected as objects of reflection in the study of religion relative to belief, experience, and even the related category of ritual. More surprisingly, despite the centrality of mitzvah (commandment) …
Bliss Against the World
Schelling, Theodicy, and the Crisis of Modernity
Inbunden, 2025
1305 kr
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The concept of bliss, in its connotations of beatitude and salvation, may seem of little relevance to so-called secular modernity. Bliss Against the World argues otherwise by advancing a novel framework of the entanglement between modernity, Christianity, and bliss through the thought of German …
Persisting in the Good
Thomas Aquinas and Early Chinese Ethics
Av Peng Yin
Inbunden, 2026
977 kr
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The life of virtue takes place in a field of adversities. It involves not only contingencies that can thwart the virtues but also the horrors and tragedies that can bring to naught even the sturdiest virtue. Persisting in the Good confronts this ubiquitous fact of moral striving by retrieving moral …
The Aesthetics and Ethics of Faith
A Dialogue Between Liberationist and Pragmatic Thought
Inbunden, 2014
1985 kr
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What is the future of liberation thought in the Americas? In this groundbreaking work, Christopher D. Tirres takes up this question by looking at the methodological connections between two quintessentially American traditions: liberation theology and pragmatism. He explains how pragmatism lends …
Visions of Religion
Experience, Meaning, and Power
Inbunden, 2014
2123 kr
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Three understandings of the nature of religion--religion as experience, symbolic meaning, and power--have dominated scholarly discussions, in succession, for the past hundred years. Proponents of each of these three approaches have tended to downplay, ignore, or actively criticize the others. But …
Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed
Inbunden, 2011
1985 kr
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Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed is one of the most discussed books in Jewish history. Over 800 years after the author's death it remains disputed with readers seeking secret philosophical messages behind its explicit teaching, a quest fueled partly by Maimonides' own statement that certain …
Comparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry
Inbunden, 2011
1985 kr
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In theological discourse, argues Hugh Nicholson, the political goes "all the way down." One never reaches a bedrock level of politically neutral religious facts, because all theological discourse - even the most sublime, edifying, and "spiritual"--is shot through with polemical elements. Liberal …
Secularism and Religion-Making
Av Markus Dressler, Arvind Mandair
Häftad, 2011
927 kr
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This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, …
Secularism and Religion-Making
Av Markus Dressler, Arvind Mandair
Inbunden, 2011
1408 kr
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This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, …
Fortunate Fallibility
Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin
Inbunden, 2011
1005 kr
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For more than 1,500 years, the claim that Adam's Fall might be considered 'fortunate' has been Christianity's most controversial and difficult idea. While keepers of the Easter vigil in the fifth century (and later John Milton) praised sin only as a backhanded witness to the ineffability of …
