Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02501011
P. Craffert
Except for demon possession, possession is a neglected and under-researched topic in New Testament studies in general and Jesus research in particular. That is unlike scholars from other disciplines who realise that spirit possession is a central feature in the emergence and growth of most religious traditions. This article first explains possession as a complex neurocultural phenomenon that is widely distributed in human societies where they fulfil a range of functions. It secondly introduces the anthropological study of possession in order to show that it cannot be invoked uncritically. The anthropological study of possession contains a range of theoretical perspectives on possession which needs to be accounted for in the cross-cultural appropriation of such research. Possession is described as the culturally appropriated practice of a common neurobiological propensity at dissociation. It is suggested that such experiences and practices were common in the world of Jesus and need to be recovered as one of the roots of the emergence of the Jesus movements.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02501007
G. Mason
This article is a comparative reading of the autobiography Child of this Soil: My Life as a Freedom Fighter by Letlapa Mphahlele and the memoir by Charl van Wyk, Shooting Back: The Right and Duty of Self-Defence. The two texts culminate in recounting of the St. James Church attack in 1993 and the two men’s subsequent reconciliatory meetings. Mphahlele ordered the attack as an APLA commander and Van Wyk was the parishioner who fired back at the APLA attackers. Of interest are the conditions of possibility for dialogue between Van Wyk and Mphahlele in the context of the national narrative of reconciliation.
本文是对Letlapa mphahelele的自传《这片土地上的孩子:我作为自由战士的生活》和Charl van Wyk的回忆录《射击:自卫的权利和义务》的比较阅读。这两篇文章最后叙述了1993年圣詹姆斯教堂的袭击事件以及两人随后的和解会议。法赫莱以人民解放军指挥官的身份下令发动袭击，而范威克是向人民解放军袭击者开火的教区居民。令人感兴趣的是，在民族和解的背景下，凡·威克和法赫莱之间进行对话的可能性的条件。
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Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02501005
Wongi Park
{"title":"The Color of Christ: The Son of God & the Saga of Race in America, by Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey","authors":"Wongi Park","doi":"10.1163/15743012-02501005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15743012-02501005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100333,"journal":{"name":"Conversations in Religion & Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90239466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02501010
Felipe Gustavo Koch Buttelli, C. L. Bruyns
This article reflects on the challenges to systematic theology that arise from students’ struggles against capitalism in Brazil and South Africa. It suggests an understanding of the social, political and economic reality, emphasising that these struggles are part of the new social movements that struggle against capitalism. Epistemologically, a kairos and decolonial theology is suggested as a meaningful theological response to the contemporary struggles. Lastly, it affirms that a decolonial theology may help to create hope in struggles to overcome capitalism. It suggests ways to embody this theological approach in political praxis, in a creative way trying to overcome capitalism.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02501008
J. Eurich
Migration has put the issue of the stranger into the centre of attention in many European societies. This article reflects upon the experience of alienness from a phenomenological and biblical perspective in order to show how complex the processuality is which alone can adequately relate the own to the other. On this basis, the engagement with the stranger is displayed as a diaconal challenge and points of reference for the diaconal praxis are developed.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02501004
Mehraj ud Din
{"title":"Islamic Theological Themes: A Primary Source Reader, by John Renard, ed.","authors":"Mehraj ud Din","doi":"10.1163/15743012-02501004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15743012-02501004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100333,"journal":{"name":"Conversations in Religion & Theology","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81890549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02501006
C. Caufield
Given changing contexts and social discourses, it is theoretically enriching to enlarge the research emphasis of the secular academic discipline of Religious Studies to consider ways in which women who self-identify as religious contribute to their various traditions in ways that deepen spiritual experience for the communities as a whole and make contributions to their larger social contexts. Religious Studies scholars value scientific approaches but also, to be respectful of the communities studied, must recognize that they do a disservice to those communities if they reduce findings to the confines of these approaches. Interdisciplinary work that draws on methodological concepts developed in feminist theological thought, together with naturalist approaches, serves to increase knowledge about and by women in faith communities. By continuing to develop theology in rigorous and thoughtful ways, modern women are carrying forward an important interpretive tradition that strengthens analyses of religion in the secular humanities and social sciences.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02501001
Asif Mohiuddin
{"title":"At Freedom’s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament, by Sadia Abbas","authors":"Asif Mohiuddin","doi":"10.1163/15743012-02501001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15743012-02501001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100333,"journal":{"name":"Conversations in Religion & Theology","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91014697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-06-20DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02501003
M. Domínguez Díaz
{"title":"Unveiling Sufism: From Manhattan to Mecca, by William Rory Dickson and Meena Sharify-Funk","authors":"M. Domínguez Díaz","doi":"10.1163/15743012-02501003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15743012-02501003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100333,"journal":{"name":"Conversations in Religion & Theology","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82900069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2011-10-20DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-2214.2011.00223.x
Amy Carr
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