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Alternative Salvations - Engaging the Sacred and the Secular (Hardcover)
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Alternative Salvations - Engaging the Sacred and the Secular (Hardcover)
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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.
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