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Introduction
Following Webb Keane and Bruno Latour, the Introduction inspects historical-genealogical insights on fetishism in order to de-stabilize perceptions...
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Translating the Spirit World
This chapter makes a theoretical excursion into the social scientific literature on how African popular religion reappears in Pentecostalism,...
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Towards a Decolonial Theology: Perspectives from the Caribbean
This chapter develops the following topics: (1) The linkages between the Iberian conquest and Christianization of Latin America and the Caribbean,...
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The Power of the Spirit
The most theological of the chapters in this book, an examination of power in Africa, how it was and is perceived, how it is the “life force” that...
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Reading Paul in Radical, Late Ancient, and Prophetic Perspective
This chapter situates the study’s approach to Paul first, in relation to contemporary readings from continental philosophy and political theology...
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Simone Weil
The philosopher and religious thinker Simone Weil is one of the most radical theological thinkers of the mid-twentieth century. Weil’s thinking of...
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Some Examples of Religious Ecstasy
This chapter introduces some basic data for the study of ecstatic and mystical states. It includes some forms of ecstasyEcstasy from five major...
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Martin Luther: The Autonomous-Self Meme
In 2017, we marked the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation prompting many new books about its impact and its founding father, Martin...
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The Many Interpretations of peri ‘eṣ hadar (Leviticus 23:40)
Moster explains that the identification of the etrog as the biblical peri ‘eṣ hadar (פרי עץ הדר) in Leviticus 23:40 was by no means predetermined. In...
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Herbert, Scripture, and Fellowship
This chapter explains how Herbert’s investment in mystery finds expression in Briefe Notes on Valdesso’s Considerations (1638). Situating Herbert’s...
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“We Can Do This!” Tackling the Political Theology of Populism
Throughout Europe, the populist protests of PEGIDA (Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes) have stirred up controversy during...
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“Serving the Spirit of Goodness”: Spiritual and Theological Responses to Affliction in the Writings of St. John of the Cross and Louise Erdrich
Psychology provides a powerful lens for interpreting the destructiveness of traumatic suffering for individuals and society. Religion can complement...
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Pentecostalism in the Sub-Sahara
This chapter traces the historical and social context of the study, including the situation of the neglected continent of Africa. The decolonisation...
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The Three Mirrors
This chapter identifies the sixteenth-century sources and backgrounds to Lutheran interest in optimistic apocalyptic expectations. It demonstrates...
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The Ensuing Challenges and Critiques
The process of Karenization calls for a dynamic process of reconstructing the local knowledge of the indigenous communities. This reconstruction is...
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The Spirit of Dis/Continuity
The introduction discusses the primary research questions to be addressed in this study, in particular the question of to what extent Pentecostalism...
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A Constructive Theology of Deliverance: Redeeming the Internal Force of Being
A pastoral theology of deliverance—adapted from the religious language of Frederick Douglass himself—is a way of understanding the religious...
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A Moral Economy in Motion: The Dynamics and Limitations of a Pentecostal Alternative Society in Cambodia
Evangelical Protestantism was introduced to Cambodia in 1923. In the early 1990s, it experienced an exponential growth in membership and development....
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Limbo
Having been (hopefully) cancelled in 2007, Limbo, and its legacy, remains to be well researched (something which has hardly been done). A profound...