Ms. Donna Haskins is an African American woman who wrestles with
structural inequity in the streets of Boston by inhabiting an
alternate dimension she refers to as the "spirit realm." In this
other ...place, she is prepared by the Holy Spirit to challenge the
restrictions placed upon Black female bodies in the United States.
Growing into her spiritual gifts of astral flight and time travel,
Donna meets the spirits of enslaved Africans, conducts spiritual
warfare against sexual predators, and tends to the souls of
murdered Black children whose ghosts haunt the inner city. Take
Back What the Devil Stole centers Donna's encounters with the
supernatural to offer a powerful narrative of how one woman seeks
to reclaim her power from a lifetime of social violence. Both
ethnographic and personal, Onaje X. O. Woodbine's portrait of her
spiritual life sheds new light on the complexities of Black women's
religious participation and the lived religion of the dispossessed.
Woodbine explores Donna's religious creativity and her sense of
multireligious belonging as she blends together Catholic,
Afro-Caribbean, and Black Baptist traditions. Through the gripping
story of one local prophet, this book offers a deeply original
account of the religious experiences of Black women in contemporary
America: their bodies, their haunted landscapes, and their
spiritual worlds.
This book is centered around the claim that although the research in Oriental and religious studies seemingly presents unbiased, objective interpretations of Indian traditions, it really puts forward ...distorted images which primarily reflect the researchers’ own European culture. A thorough examination demonstrates to what extent Oriental studies as well as other humanities are still influenced by theological preconceptions. English edition. font color"#cc0000"You can listen to the interview with Martin Fárek a href"https://newbooksnetwork.com/india-in-the-eyes-of-europeans"font color"#cc0000"here/font/a.
The cognitive science of religion (CSR) arose out of attempts to "science up "religious studies and the anthropology of religion without eliminating interpretive approaches. While maintaining this ...historical orientation, CSR holds promise to help bridge to other areas within the scientific study of religion. Particularly fruitful areas of future collaboration and complementary study are evolutionary studies of religion, psychology of religion, sociology of religion, and archeology of religion. In response to an invitation to explore the potential of CSR for the 50th anniversary of this journal, I briefly summarize CSR's history and current state and then offer exemplary future directions that might bring CSR into fruitful connection with other areas in the greater scientific study of religion.
Islam, Christianity, and Judaism share several common features, including their historical origins in the prophet Abraham, their belief in a single divine being, and their modern global expanse. Yet ...it is the seeming closeness of these “Abrahamic” religions that draws attention to the real or imagined differences between them. This volume examines Abrahamic cultures as minority groups in societies which may be majority Muslim, Christian, or Jewish, or self-consciously secular. The focus is on the relationships between these religious identities in global Diaspora, where all of them are confronted with claims about national and individual difference. The case studies range from colonial Hong Kong and Victorian London to today’s San Francisco and rural India. Each study shows how complex such relationships can be and how important it is to situate them in the cultural, ethnic, and historical context of their world. The chapters explore ritual practice, conversion, colonization, immigration, and cultural representations of the differences between the Abrahamic religions. An important theme is how the complex patterns of interaction among these religions embrace collaboration as well as conflict—even in the modern Middle East. This work by authors from several academic disciplines on a topic of crucial importance will be of interest to scholars of history, theology, sociology, and cultural studies, as well as to the general reader interested in how minority groups have interacted and coexisted.
The Quests for the Historical Jesus resulted in a move "back to the Jewish roots!" Jewish Jesus research positioned Jewry within a dominantly Christian culture and permitted Jews to feel more at ease ...with Jesus the Jew. Christians are challenged to respond now with a new Christology.
Juxtaposes several of the miracles in the Islamic and Christian traditions. This new and dynamic approach to the perennially fascinating subject of miracles adopts a strictly anthropological and ...phenomenological approach. Allowing the miracles to speak for themselves, Ian Richard Netton examines these phenomena in the Islamic and Christian traditions through the lens of narration. What are the stories of the miracles? What are the contexts which gave rise to these miracles and allowed them to garner belief and flourish? Perspectives covered include the views of believers and non-believers alike in these phenomena. Similarities and differences in content and approach are explored with a primary focus on the five main anthropological topoi of food, water, blood, wood and stone, and cosmology. A range of intertextual elements in both these Islamic and Christian traditions are discerned.
Atonement and Comparative Theology Cornille, Catherine; Bidlack, Bede Benjamin; Clooney, Francis X ...
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The central Christian belief in salvation through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ remains one of the most intractable mysteries of Christian faith. Throughout history, it has ...given rise to various theories of atonement, many of which have been subject to critique as they no longer speak to contemporary notions of evil and sin or to current conceptions of justice. One of the important challenges for contemporary Christian theology thus involves exploring new ways of understanding the salvific meaning of the cross.
In Atonement and Comparative Theology , Christian theologians with expertise in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and African Religions reflect on how engagement with these traditions sheds new light on the Christian understanding of atonement by pointing to analogous structures of sin and salvation, drawing attention to the scandal of the cross as seen by the religious other, and re-interpreting aspects of the Christian understanding of atonement. Together, they illustrate the possibilities for comparative theology to deepen and enrich Christian theological reflection.
Current debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but they make no impact on believers. Defenders of religion find ...atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. Noting that religion is not what atheists think it is, Tim Crane offers a way out of this stalemate.
New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movementsis the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents. Hugh B. Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the ...mid-nineteenth century to the present, including the Nation of Islam, Mormonism, Scientology, ISKCON, Wicca, the Church of Satan, Peoples Temple, and the Branch Davidians. This essential text engages students by addressing major theoretical and methodological issues in the study of new religions and is organized to guide students in their learning. Each chapter focuses on one important issue involving a particular faith group, providing readers with examples that illustrate larger issues in the study of religion and American culture.Urban addresses such questions as, Why has there been such a tremendous proliferation of new spiritual forms in the past 150 years, even as our society has become increasingly rational, scientific, technological, and secular? Why has the United States become the heartland for the explosion of new religious movements? How do we deal with complex legal debates, such as the use of peyote by the Native American Church or the practice of plural marriage by some Mormon communities? And how do we navigate issues of religious freedom and privacy in an age of religious violence, terrorism, and government surveillance?
