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Defense Against the Dark
Here we demonstrate that spirits are treated as active agents that can help or hurt humans in most cultures. We discuss prayers, magic, talismans,...
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Divine Power and Fluid Bodies: Tirunaṅkais in Tamil Nadu
This article analyzes the complex ways in which religious practices influence the formation of identity and community among tirunaṅkai s,...
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The Convergence of Seeing and Action in Classical Yoga
Yoga, as classically formulated in Patañjali’s Yoga-Sūtra , has far too often been conceived as leading to a freedom from the world, emphasizing...
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Liturgy, Rituals, Traditions, Sacrifice, and Festivals
This chapter examines the concepts of liturgy, rituals, traditions, sacrifices, and festivals in African Traditional Religion. These concepts act as...
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Seeing God in Christ, Being Seen as the Body of Christ, Seeing Others as GOD’S Beloved: A Lutheran Reflection on the Church Post-COVID-19
This chapter offers reflections on what the church as the body of Christ is called by God and moved by the Spirit to be amid the shock waves of...
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Back from the Crocodile’s Belly: Christian Formation Meets Indigenous Resurrection Redux
In this chapter, the author grapples with the question: What happens when the “One True Story” encounters other faith stories? Riffing off her...
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The Spirit(s) in the Diaspora: African-Derived Religions
Buhring explores ideas of spirit(s) in African-derived religions in the Caribbean. The focus in this chapter is on three religious strands that are...
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The Stage of Stream-Entry
This chapter demonstrates that the contemporary Theravāda understanding of a stream-entrant has been heavily filtered by the Pāli commentarial...
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A Psalmic-Theological Homiletic as a Korean Immigrant Preaching Model
This chapter develops a psalmic-theological homiletic which has a fourfold theological-rhetorical movement such as lament, retelling a story,...
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Relating to Nature: Rendering Nature Visible Through Rituals in South Asia
This chapter argues for the ways in which nature, that is an invisible background to human activities, is brought to the fore-ground through rituals...
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Non-theocratic Politics: Secularism and Anthropocracy
This chapter widens the discussion of anthropocracy by proposing that it be understood as one ‘non-theocratizing’ possibility in modern politics and...
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Spiritual Flows and Obstructions: Local Deliverance in The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
Every Friday, ‘strong prayers’ and violent spiritual confrontations can be heard coming from the Australian headquarters of the Brazilian Pentecostal...
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Hinduism
In Vedic religion, the body (including its fluids and hair) are sources of pollution that require cleansing and, at certain times, removal. In some...
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Water Spirituality Beyond the Basin: Detroit Dwarf, Celt Hound, Afro-Orisha
Chapter 5 intensifies the exploration by probing a new “rite of spring” created (in 2009) by white gentrifiers of the Car City’s urban core,...
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Doing Battle with the Forces of Darkness in a Secularized Society
Our contribution is based on fieldwork in the province of Québec, Canada among Catholic charismatics and Spiritualists. We examine the spiritual...
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Divination, Healing, and Deliverance
This discusses solutions to trouble, sickness, and misfortune, including deliverance from witchcraft-induced affliction, that are used by traditional...
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Disability as a Context for Theological Reflection on Recognition
This chapter examines the notion of participation, especially insofar as it can inform and enact a praxis of recognition. I consider recent...
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Introduction
This book is the first scholarly study and translation of the famous Jesuit Chinese children’s primer, the Four Character Classic (Sizi**gwen 四字經文),...
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Witchcraft, Spirits, and Misfortune
This chapter deals with the African world of spirits and their pervasiveness, where the focus is on the disembodied spirits (both good and evil) of...