Working Emptiness

Newman Robert Glass

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion | nr. 1
• Newman Robert Glass argues that there are three workings of emptiness capable of grounding thinking and behavior: presence, difference, and essence. T... Lees meer

Pilgrimage of Love

Joy Ann McDougall

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• In Pilgrimage of Love Joy Ann McDougall offers an original reading and critical analysis of German Protestant theologian Jürgen Moltmann's social trin... Lees meer

God, Philosophy and Academic Culture

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion | nr. 11
• A striking feature of the current philosophical scene is the division between those philosophers of religion primarily associated with the American Ph... Lees meer

Moral Creativity

John Wall

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• In Moral Creativity , John Wall argues that moral life and thought are inherently and radically creative. Human beings are called by their own primord... Lees meer

Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism

Jonathan Tran

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approach... Lees meer

Writing Religion

Markus Dressler

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• 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... Lees meer

Making Magic

Randall Styers

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• Since the emergence of religious studies and the social sciences as academic disciplines, the concept of "magic" has played a major role in defining r... Lees meer

Comparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry

Hugh Nicholson

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• In theological discourse, argues Hugh Nicholson, the political goes "all the way down." One never reaches a bedrock level of politically neutral relig... Lees meer

Opting for the Margins

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• Ideas like the "preferential option for the poor"-arguing that people marginalized by the economy have a claim to "special consideration"-have been am... Lees meer

Writing Religion

Dressler

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• 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... Lees meer

Plato's Ghost

Cathy Gutierrez

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• In its day, spiritualism brought hundreds of thousands of Americans to séance tables and trance lectures. It has alternately been ridiculed as the apo... Lees meer

The Aesthetics and Ethics of Faith

Christopher D Tirres

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• 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 ... Lees meer

Healing Deconstruction

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion | nr. 3
• This collection reflects the confluence of two contemporary developments: the Buddhist-Christian dialogue and the deconstruction theory of Jacques Der... Lees meer

Converging on Culture

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural analysis and criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies.... Lees meer

Syncretism and Christian Tradition

Ross Kane

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• Syncretism has been a part of Christianity from its very beginning, when early Christians expressed Jesus' Aramaic teachings in the Greek language. De... Lees meer

Melancholic Freedom

David Kyuman Kim

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• 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 ... Lees meer

Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed

Daniel Davies

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed is one of the most discussed books in Jewish history. More than 800 years after the author's death it remains hotl... Lees meer

Newman and Gadamer

Thomas K Carr

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion | nr. 10
• Thomas K. Carr examines the religious epistemology of John Henry Newman alongside the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. The two writer... Lees meer

Beyond the Necessary God

Paul Dehart

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion | nr. 15
• Beyond the Necessary God examines the trinitarian thought of German theologian Eberhard Jungel. One of the most creative theologians working with the ... Lees meer

Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism

Jonathan Tran

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two contemporary approach... Lees meer

Secularism and Religion-Making

Markus Dressler, Arvind Mandair

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• This book conceives of "religion-making" broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within th... Lees meer

Like and Unlike God

John Neary

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion | nr. 13
• The "postmodernist context" of contemporary literary studies has seemed to push religious ideas to the margins. Nevertheless, religious concerns are d... Lees meer

Better Than Wine

Yudit Kornberg Greenberg

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion | nr. 7
• This book offers a hermeneutical reading of Franz Rosenzweig's 1921 masterpiece, The Star of Redemption . In her analysis, Yudit K. Greenberg draws on... Lees meer

Living Words

Terence J Martin

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion | nr. 12
• Efforts to speak about religion regularly get mired in confusion and conflict. Terence Martin argues that such talk might go better if participants ad... Lees meer