Alternative Salvations (eBook, ePUB)

Engaging the Sacred and the Secular
Redaktion: Bacon, Hannah; Knowles, Steve; Dossett, Wendy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By considering transformative ideas and experiences which are explicitly articulated or implicitly structured in languages of religion and spirituality, Alternative Salvations probes concepts including 'religious', 'secular', 'spiritual', 'post-Christian', and 'post-secular', providing a series of studies which question the functionality of these broad categories.

Part one draws on contemporary salvation narratives showing how current cultural forms, social practices and secular discourses are influenced by, or are interpreted through, the lens of religious and theological accounts of salvation. Examples include twelve step recovery programs, drug culture, and public policy surrounding HIV-AIDs in Kenya. Although outside traditional religious contexts, the contributors show ways in which they are not free from religious symbolism. Part two explores alternative accounts of salvation rooted in religious traditions. Established orthodoxies are confronted by contemporary critical questions, for example about gender, the status of animals, and the political dimensions of salvation.

By contributing new perspectives and unique case studies, Alternative Salvations provides a deliberate challenge to easy binaries which often underpin contemporary and traditional discourses of salvation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472579966
• Artikelnr.: 43978156

Autorenporträt

Hannah Bacon is Deputy Head of Theology and Religious Studies and Senior Lecturer in Feminist and Contextual Theology at the University of Chester, UK. Wendy Dossett is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Chester, UK. Steve Knowles is Senior Lecturer in Religion and Popular Culture at the University of Chester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: Contemporary Salvation Narratives 1. Only We Can Save Ourselves: An Atheist 'Salvation'
Thomas J. Coleman (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
USA) and Robert B. Arrowood (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
USA) 2. Reflections on the Language of Salvation in Twelve Step Recovery
Wendy Dossett (University of Chester
UK) 3. Public Policy Dialogue as a Salvation Practice for Women and Youth living with HIV in Kenya
Irene Ayallo (University of Auckland
New Zealand) 4. Dieting for Salvation: Becoming God by Weighing Less? Hannah Bacon (University of Chester
UK) 5. Spontaneous Transcendent and Transformative Experiences in Everyday Life
Madeleine Castro (Leeds Metropolitan University
UK) 6. Timothy Leary and Alternative Salvation
William Stephenson (University of Chester
UK) 7. Religious Doctrines in Group Discussions on Ideas of the Afterlife: What Do You Think Comes after Death? Kornelia Sammet (Universität Leipzig
Germany) 8. Salvation
Death and Nature as Grace
Douglas Davies (University of Durham
UK) PART II: Re-Reading Traditions 10. Whose Salvation? A Very Particular Christian Question
Jenny Daggers (Liverpool Hope University
UK) 11. 'Unlock Paradise with your own Blood': Martyrdom and Salvation in Christianity and Islam
Paul Middleton (University of Chester
UK) 12. Christian Salvations in a Multi-Faith World: Challenging the "Cult of Normalcy"
Wayne Morris (University of Chester
UK) 13. Gendered Constructions: Overcoming the Binaries
Emily Pennington (University of Chester
UK) 14. Animals and Universal Redemption: All Dogs Go to Heaven
Kris Hiuser (University of Chester
UK) 15. Teaching Practical Theology for Flourishing
Katja Stuerzenhofecker (University of Manchester
UK) 16. A Muslim Argument for Universal Salvation
Jon Hoover (University of Nottingham
UK) 17. Signs of Salvation: Insecurity
Risk and the End of teh World in Late Modernity
Steve Knowles (University of Chester
UK) Bibliography Index