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Alternative Salvations: Engaging the Sacred and the Secular

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Description for Alternative Salvations: Engaging the Sacred and the Secular Paperback. .
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781350039506
SKU
V9781350039506
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Ref
99-1

About Bacon Hannah
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Alternative Salvations: Engaging the Sacred and the Secular
Each author provides detailed examples which ... remain comprehensive enough for readers outside each author's area of expertise ... Alternative Salvations challenges the static orthodox Christian notions of salvation, both in the past and present, through the exploration of alternative theologies and lived experiences.
Theology
The chapters, which are relatively short but packed with content, in Alternative Salvations ... Read more

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