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

American Pragmatism

M Gail Hamner

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• Hamner seeks to discover what makes pragmatism uniquely American. She argues that the inextricably American character of pragmatism of such figures as... 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

Cavell, Companionship, and Christian Theology

Peter Dula

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• In recent decades, theologians and philosophers of religion have engaged in a vigorous debate concerning the status and nature of ecclesiology. Throug... Lees meer

Language of Disenchantment

Robert A Yelle

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• The Language of Disenchantment explores the ways in which Protestant ideas concerning language influenced British colonial attitudes toward and propos... Lees meer

Wittgenstein and the Mystical

Frederick Sontag

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion | nr. 2
• This book attempts to reconcile the analytic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein with those issues that consumed his personal life and which lay outside... Lees meer

Working Emptiness

Newman R 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

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

Secularism and Religion-Making

Markus (Assisant Professor at the Department for Humanities and, Arvind (S.B.S.C. Assistant Professor in Sikh Studies, S.B.S.C. A

• Hardcover | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• This book investigates the universalization of religious and secular knowledges that emerged in their particular modern forms originally in the Christ... Lees meer

Writing Religion

Markus Dressler

• Paperback | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• Markus Dressler tells the story of how a number of marginalized socioreligious communities, traditionally and derogatorily referred to as Kizilbas (Re... Lees meer

Comparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry

Hugh Nicholson

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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 relig... Lees meer

Visions of Religion

Stephen S Bush

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities Three understandings of the nature of religion--religion as experience, symbolic meaning, and po... Lees meer

Converging on Culture

• Hardcover | 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

Opting for the Margins

Joerg Rieger

• 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

Feminist Theology and the Challenge of Difference

Margaret D Kamitsuka

• Hardcover | Engels | AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
• In the early years of contesting patriarchy in the academy and religious institutions, feminist theology often presented itself as a unified front, a ... Lees meer

Melancholic Freedom

David Kyuman Kim

• Paperback | 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

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

Fortunate Fallibility

Jason A Mahn

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

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

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

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