Routledge Studies in Religion
Gender and Power in Contemporary Spirituality: Ethnographic Approaches
1st Edition
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By Anna Fedele, Kim Knibbe
September 11, 2014
This book explores the entanglements of gender and power in spiritual practices and analyzes strategies used by spiritual practitioners to attain what to social scientists might seem an impossible goal: creating spiritual communities without creating gendered hierarchies. What strategies do ...
Abrogation in the Qur’an and Islamic Law
1st Edition
By Louay Fatoohi
July 03, 2014
This book examines in detail the concept of "abrogation" in the Qur’an, which has played a major role in the development of Islamic law and has implications for understanding the history and integrity of the Qur’anic text. The term has gained popularity in recent years, as Muslim groups and ...
Adam Smith as Theologian
1st Edition
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By Paul Oslington
July 03, 2014
Adam Smith wrote in a Scotland where Calvinism, Continental natural law theory, Stoic philosophy, and the Newtonian tradition of scientific natural theology were key to the intellectual lives of his contemporaries. But what impact did these ideas have on Smith’s system? What was Smith’s ...
Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy: A Critical Inquiry
1st Edition
By Paul DeHart
July 03, 2014
Aquinas and Radical Orthodoxy investigates the encounter of the most vibrant and controversial trend in recent theology with the greatest Christian thinker of the Middle Ages. The book describes Radical Orthodoxy’s orientation and highlights those anti-secular strategies and intellectual influences...
Material Religion and Popular Culture
1st Edition
By E. Frances King
July 03, 2014
In this study, E. Frances King explores how people first learn to relate to the images and artefacts of religious belief within their domestic environments. As a sense of religious belonging is instilled on a daily basis in the home, it also becomes emotionally linked to family, community, and ...
Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics: From Creatio Ex Nihilo to Terra Nullius
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By Whitney Bauman
June 19, 2014
Winner of the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, 2009 This book argues that the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing) sets up a support system for a "logic of domination" toward human and earth others. Conceptually inspired by the work of theologian Catherine ...
Religious Conversion and Identity: The Semiotic Analysis of Texts
1st Edition
By Massimo Leone
October 23, 2013
The way in which people change and represent their spiritual evolution is often determined by recurrent language structures. Through the analysis of ancient and modern stories and their words and images, this book describes the nature of conversion through explorations of the encounter with the ...
Language, Desire and Theology: A Genealogy of the Will to Speak
1st Edition
By Noëlle Vahanian
September 03, 2013
This interesting and provocative work develops a new theological approach to language in the light of contemporary critical theory....
Religion, Language, and Power
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By Nile Green, Mary Searle-Chatterjee
October 10, 2012
Religion, Language and Power shows that the language of ‘religion’ is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call ‘religious’ groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other ...
Christianity, Tolerance and Pluralism: A Theological Engagement with Isaiah Berlin's Social Theory
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By Michael Jinkins
September 25, 2012
This book provides a sustained, critical and theological engagement with arguably the most crucial aspect of contemporary society - its diversity. The author finds in the social theory of Isaiah Berlin a number of fruitful ways to reframe the debate over these questions, and to contribute to a more...
The Entangled God: Divine Relationality and Quantum Physics
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By Kirk Wegter-McNelly
August 25, 2011
In The Entangled God, Kirk Wegter-McNelly addresses the age-old theological question of how God is present to the world by constructing a novel, scientifically informed account of the God–world relation. Drawing on recent scientific and philosophical work in "quantum entanglement," Wegter-McNelly ...
Sufism and Deconstruction: A Comparative Study of Derrida and Ibn 'Arabi
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By Ian Almond
December 21, 2009
Examinung a series of common features in the works of Derrida and the Sufism of Ibn 'Arabi, considered to be one of the most influential figures in Islamic thought, the author addresses the significant absence of attention on the relationship between Islam and Derrida. Presenting a ...