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Healing As A Multimedia Practice – Contemporary Spirituality In Turkey, Part 1 (Duygu Sendag)

October 17, 2024 — By editors

Zeynep, a 37-year-old Turkish woman, comes from a secular family background. She has traveled to Bali and India on different occasions to participate in yoga

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Sikh Environmental Ethics-Theory and Praxis Part 2 (Harpreet Kaur)

August 24, 2024 — By editors

The following is the second installment of a two-part series. The first can be found here. Many verses can be retrieved to prompt human beings to be thankful

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The Re-Enchantment Of Bodies – The Transformative Power Of Charismatic Healings, Part 2 (Anna Magnasco)

December 12, 2023 — By editors

The following is the first of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. It was originally published in issue 22.1 of the Journal for Cultural

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Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 2 (Joshua Hall)

March 31, 2023 — By editors

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. As to the purpose of this spirit dancing, Kopenawa constantly emphasizes that

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Introducing Spirit/Dance – Social Justice And Reconstructed Spiritual Practices, Part 1 (Joshua Hall)

March 16, 2023 — By editors

This project was provoked by the almost nonexistent pushback from the Democratic liberal establishment to the (2020) exoneration of Kyle Rittenhouse, despite

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Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 2 (Jake Sirota)

February 15, 2022 — By editors

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. At this point Derrida’s appraisal of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics

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Geschlecht III – Authentic Faith, Religion, And Politics In Derrida’s Readings of Heidegger’s “Geist”, Part 1 (Jake Sirota)

February 7, 2022 — By editors

Jacques Derrida’s prolonged and intimate proximity to the thought of Martin Heidegger has played a significant role in the understanding and debate of Derrida’s

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Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 3 (John Cuda)

October 21, 2021 — By editors

Part 3 links entheogen practice and dreamwork, arguing that altered states function as a training ground for agency, myth-making, and transformed lived reality.

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Entheogens, Spirituality, And Modern Myths, Part 1 (John Cuda)

October 4, 2021 — By editors

The following is the first of a three-part series. In this article I seek to analyze spiritual phenomena using contemporary mythological and pop-cultural

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“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 2 (James E. Willis, III)

May 9, 2020 — By editors

The following is the second of a two-part series. The first can be found here. A philosophy of finite human time is one way to read Martin Hägglund’s recent

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“Naming The Darkness,” Spiritual Violence, And Radical Incompleteness – Resituating A Political Theology, Part 1 (James E. Willis, III)

May 1, 2020 — By editors

The Death of God theological movement of the mid-twentieth century serves as a productive starting place to consider spiritual violence in our time, or the

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The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 3 (Paul Maltby)

March 3, 2020 — By editors

The following is the third of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. End Times fiction must be distinguished from other literary

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The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 2 (Paul Maltby)

February 25, 2020 — By editors

The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. End Times fiction’s unrelenting focus on human sinfulness and unworthiness, a

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The Hollow Christians Of End Times Fiction, Part 1 (Paul Maltby)

February 18, 2020 — By editors

A flaw at the heart of End Times fiction gravely weakens its credibility as Christian literature. Its stock characters lack the degree of interiority required

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Horror Fiction And Catholic Theology – A Rhetorical Synthesis, Part 2 (Gavin Hurley)

January 5, 2020 — By editors

The following is the second of a two-part-series. The first can be read here. What specifically sets horror apart from other genres such as fantasy and science

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Jonathan Edwards And The Vegan Elect – An Unconventional Calvinist Reading, Part 1 (Tadd Ruetenik)

April 23, 2019 — By editors

In 1895, when Myrtle Fillmore, co-founder of the Unity School of Christianity, first became a vegetarian, she said that “the appetite left me without my even

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Transmodern Sufism, Or Stepping With Levinas On The Footprints Of A Speculative Sufism Not Re-Framed By 20th Century Orientalists, Part 1 (Philipp Valentini)

September 6, 2018 — By editors

> I am wondering if the agony of years > Could be traced to the seed of an hour > If the roots that spread out in the swamp > Ran too deep for the issuing

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Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 3 (Mark Murphy)

August 15, 2018 — By editors

The following is the third installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. The second one can be found here The second one can be found here.

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Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 2 (Mark Murphy)

August 8, 2018 — By editors

The following is the second installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here. What Does Lacan Mean When He Says That Spiritual Direction is a

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Lacan As “Spiritual Director” – On The Relationship Between Psychoanalysis And Christian Mysticism, Part 1 (Mark Murphy)

July 31, 2018 — By editors

Spiritual direction is defined as the help one gives to another in developing one’s relationship with the sacred, while the treatment of psychological symptoms

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Slow Journalism? Ethnography As A Means Of Understanding Religious Social Activism, Part 1 (James V. Spickard)

October 16, 2017 — By editors

The following is a talk presented at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, and is the first installment of a two-part series

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Review – Theologies of the Boss (James Cochran)

March 2, 2017 — By James Cochran

*Yadin-Israel, Azzan. The Grace of God and the Grace of Man: The Theologies of Bruce Springsteen. Highland Park: Lingua Press, 2016. ISBN-10: 0692718516

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Spiritual Erotics, Part 3 – Eros, Ecstasy, and the Pentecostal Experience

April 13, 2016 — By editors

In the first installment of this three-part book preview of my forthcoming work on machismo in Latino culture I explored the role of the new, and “hot”

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Renegade Hinduism Scholar Featured In Norton’s Anthology of World Religions

April 8, 2016 — By editors

The just-released, multi-volume Norton Anthology of World Religions is a major project of substance undertaken by a group of world-renowned scholars in

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Spiritual Erotics, Part 2 – The Nature and History of Machismo and Its Feminine Counterpart As “Marianismo”

April 6, 2016 — By editors

From time to time Religious Theory (RT) invites well-known academic authors to outline current book projects that have not yet been published It highlights

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