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"Examining the trajectory of the secularization of Islam in Iran, this book explains how efforts to Islamize society led, self-destructively, to its secularization. The research engages a range of debates across different fields, emphasizing the political and epistemological instability of the basic categories such as Islam, Sharia and secularism. The volume is an interdisciplinary study of both the history of Islamic revival and Khomeini's very specific merger of Islamic Law and mysticism. It traces back the process of secularization to the early encounter of Iranian intellectuals with Europeans and adoption of their fundamental framework in an Islamic guise. The process continued until the Islamic revolution of Iran in 1979, when Khomeini tried to substantively de-secularize Iranian social imaginaries. His attempts were not followed up by his followers who vigorously reinstated the previous trend, after his death, resulting in a polity which is mostly secular but with Islamic ornaments. Bringing together area studies (Iran), religious studies (Islam), and political theory (secularism), this interdisciplinary volume places findings in a broader narrative that is both specific to Iran but broad enough to engage a global readership"--

Apocalypse, it seems, is everywhere. Preachers with vast followings proclaim the world's end. Apocalyptic fears grip even the nonreligious amid climate change, pandemics, and threats of nuclear war. As these ideas pervade popular discourse, grasping their logic remains elusive. Ben Jones argues that we can gain insight into apocalyptic thought through secular thinkers. He starts with a puzzle: Why would secular thinkers draw on Christian apocalyptic beliefs - often dismissed as bizarre - to interpret politics? The apocalyptic tradition proves appealing in part because it theorizes a relation between crisis and utopia. Apocalyptic thought points to crisis as the vehicle to bring the previously impossible within reach, offering resources for navigating challenges in ideal theory, which involves imagining the best, most just society. By examining apocalyptic thought's appeal and risks, this study arrives at new insights on the limits of utopian hope. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.

In 'Separate But Faithful', Amanda Hollis-Brusky and Joshua C. Wilson provide an in-depth look at the Christian Right's efforts to build a comprehensive legal movement aimed at radically transforming American law and policy to reflect 'Christian Worldview.' Drawing on an impressive amount of original data from a variety of sources, the authors examine the causes, contours and consequences of these efforts.

1 Introduction: Towards an anthropology of the umwelt; Part 1 Humans and the wild śakti of deities; 2 The land of paddy fields, forests, and deities; 3 The būta shrine and deities in Perar; 4 Pāḍdana: The oral epics of deities; 5 Dances, oracles, and blessings in the ritual; 6 The transaction of wild śakti; 7 Playing with perspectives; Part 2 Social transformations and the emergence of a new umwelt; 8 Būta's agency in conflicts over the village shrine; 9 Historical changes in land tenure in South Kanara; 10 Modern law, customary law, and the reflexive imagination; 11 Land reforms and deities as the 'owners of land'; 12 Būtas in the midst of the development project; 13 The new umwelt in the industrial plant; 14 Conclusion: Being, pathos, and the umwelt

Etape propédeutique --Contextualisation --L'eucharistie dans la tradition catholique --Le concile de Trente --L'enseignement du concile --Rapport du concile à Thomas --La conception thomasienne de l'eucharistie --Écart entre le concile et Thomas --La genèse de la théorie eucharistique cartésienne --Étonnement du lecteur --L'apparition de l'eucharistie dans la Lettre au Père Mersenne de 1630 --Un contexte physique marqué par des préoccupations d'optique --L'ambition d'expliquer la permanence de la blancheur du pain --Une démarche physique, renforcée par l'existence de deux questions --Transition : des Essais aux Méditations --L'explication du sort des espèces --Les Quatrièmes Objections --Contextualisation --La double difficulté relative à la transsubstantiation --L'explication cartésienne par la notion de superficie --La réponse cartésienne sur l'eucharistie et son organisation tripartite --Le moment rhétorique --Le moment dogmatique : la notion de superficie, point nodal de l'explication --Le moment polémique : la critique de Thomas et des accidents réels --La réception de l'explication cartésienne : satisfaction et objections --Difficultés de l'explication cartésienne --L'objectivité de la superficie : la permanence des propriétés sensibles --L'écueil d'une substitution, réclamant une explication du mode de présence --Rapport au christianisme impliqué par la première explication --L'explication du mode de présence --Préambule --Enjeux du passage du sort des espèces au mode de présence --Contextualisation : le corpus, le Père D. Mesland, et le statut confidentiel des lettres --Genèse de l'apparition du mode de présence --La réponse cartésienne à la difficulté de Mesland --Pt. 1.de l'explication cartésienne --Accommodement de la démarche au texte du concile --L'équivocité du terme corps --L'union : fondement de l'unité numérique du corps humain et de son individualité --Pt. 2.de l'explication cartésienne --L'analogie avec la nutrition : une transsubstantiation naturelle --Le coeur de l'explication : l'union, surnaturelle, du pain à l'âme du Christ --L'efficacité transformante de l'union : primauté de l'âme, médiation de la présence du vrai corps du Christ --Corps non figuratif --Homogénéité de l'entreprise cartésienne --Le paragraphe rayé sur la minute : l'omission volontaire de l'étendue --La réception du Jésuite et prolongement de l'explication --Le commentaire cartésien des paroles de la consécration : un tournant --L'objection du triduum mortis, traduisant le problème lié à la primauté de l'âme --Réserve finale du Jésuite et clôture du sujet eucharistique, sans désaveu --Postérité de l'explication --Regard critique sur l'explication cartésienne : une orthodoxie en question.

"For nearly a century, the worldwide anthroposophical movement has been a catalyst for environmental activism, helping to bring to life many modern ecological practices such as organic farming, community-supported agriculture, and green banking. Yet the spiritual practice of anthroposophy remains unknown to most environmentalists. A historical and ethnographic study of the environmental movement, Eco-Alchemy uncovers for the first time the profound influences of anthroposophy and its founder, Rudolf Steiner, whose holistic worldview, rooted in esoteric spirituality, inspired the movement. Dan McKanan shows that environmentalism is itself a complex ecosystem and that it would not be as diverse or transformative without the contributions of anthroposophy"--Provided by publisher

Intersectional Theology: An Introductory Guide offers a new approach to theology that encourages centering of social differences and structures of power in the ways we think about God, the church, and other theological categories. Rooted in intersectionality, a tool of analysis developed primarily by black feminists, intersectional theology calls for examination of theological ideas from multifaceted and ever-changing perspectives that move us toward social justice

Heretic merchants, pedlars in divinity, and other colonial characters -- The black regiment, Boston men, and other revolutionary characters -- Too little help from the pulpit: clergy and businesspeople in the Antebellum era -- The gospel of Christ and the gospel of wealth in the Gilded Age -- Jesus as salesman, socialist, savior: Christianity and business in the progressive era -- Honored but ill-defined: Christianity and business in depression, war, and beyond -- From segregation to social responsibility: 1960-2010.

A conversation between contemporary art and the church /Wayne Roosa --Art and Christian pilgrimage : a response to Wayne Roosa /Linda Stratford --On the strange place of religious writing in contemporary art /Jonathan A. Anderson --Artists as witnesses in the church /Sandra Bowden and Marianne Lettieri --Can contemporary art be devotional art? /Ben Quash --Graced encounters : a response to Ben Quash /Taylor Worley --Something from nothing : a theology of nothingness and silence for Yves Klein's Le Vide /Christina L. Carnes Ananias --(Con)founded theology : a haptic pneumatology for contemporary art /Chelle Stearns --Contemporary art and corporate worship : imago Dei in the twenty-first century /Katie Kresser --Which art? What worship? : a response to Katie Kresser /W. David O. Taylor --Art, place, and the church : thinking theologically about contemporary art in the worship space /Jennifer Allen Craft --Finding Its place : how Karl Barth's ecclesiology can help the church embrace contemporary art /David W. McNutt --The origins and mission of CIVA : a symposium /Sandra Bowden, Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker, Theodore Prescott, and Calvin Seerveld (moderated by Nicholas Wolterstorff) --Contemporary artists in the public square : a symposium /David Hooker, Joyce Lee, Steve Prince, and Mandy Cano Villalobos (moderated by Kevin Hamilton) --Helping your neighbor see surprises : advice to recent graduates /Calvin Seerveld --Saving the world /Cameron J. Anderson.