Religious Experience and New Materialism: Movement Matters

ISBN-13: 9781137568434 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 191 str.

Joerg Rieger; Edward Waggoner

Opis

Religious Experience and New Materialism: Movement Matters is a groundbreaking set of original essays that enlivens new materialist conversation through the theme of movement. The book explores religious experience as it relates to dance, community organizing, fecal metaphors for social solidarity, ecology and relational Christian realism, and labor issues. According to the book's new materialist analyses, needful political, social, cultural, and religious change may hinge on a more vital conception of matter, a less anthropocentric outlook, and greater attention to the material aspects of daily life. In this volume, theologians and scholars of religion criticize and refine new materialist views in order to advance debate about the role of religious experience in social and political change.

Recenzje

'From its birth, New Materialism has fostered intense attention and debate: is it materialist, is it new, can it produce a more radical theology? Here, chapters lock horns over the heart and bodies of the New Materialist program, emphasizing the topics of religion and activism. The authors, undercutting established dualisms, offer both advocacy and critical dialogue. This is an important contribution to this new school of thought.' - Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology, USA

Spis treści

Introduction; Tamsin Jones
1. 'Becoming a Bodily Self: An Econkinetic Approach to the Study of Religion'; Kimerer L. LaMothe
2. 'Organizing Conversions: Theorizing the Religious Experience of Conversion with New Materialisms'; Kevin Minister
3. 'Ecology and Social Movements: The New Materialism and Relational Christian Realism'; Clayton Crockett and John Reader
4. 'Becoming Feces: New Materialism and the Deep Solidarity in Feeling Like Shit'; Karen Bray
5. 'Rethinking the New Materialism for Religion and Theology: Why Movements Matter Most'; Joerg Rieger
Response: 'On the Virtue and Variety of Movement'; Jeffrey W. Robbins
Conclusion; Edward Waggoner

O autorze

Karen Bray, Drew University, USA Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas, USA Tamsin Jones, Trinity College, USA Kimerer L. LaMothe, Brown University and Harvard University, USA (emeritus) Kevin Minister, College of Arts and Sciences at Shenandoah University, USA John Reader, University of Chester, UK Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College, USA