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Reframing the Fields [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The conception of metaphoric process elaborated by Mary Gerhart and Allan Russell illuminates a key mechanism often involved in the most significant advances in science and religion.
Burrell David   +6 more
core   +2 more sources

“We Represent a Definite Social Class”: The Class Identities and Resources of American Religious Groups in the Roaring Twenties

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Class identity is a crucial sociological concept, but is only ever measured at the individual level. In this paper, we ask: do groups have class identities? And do those class identities correspond with material resources? To answer these questions, we examine data from 31 of the most prominent American religious denominations in the early ...
Tessa Huttenlocher, Melissa Wilde
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond anti-blackness? Engaging Black Theology and the entanglement of metaphysical brutality

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
This article explores the role of Black Theology within the context of sustained anti-blackness. It argues that anti-blackness is not only a political failure but the ontological ground of modern life.
Fabian A. Oliver
doaj   +1 more source

What is Theology to a Black Seminarian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This article was originally published in The Prophet -- a journal created by and for the students at the Boston University School of Theology (BUSTH) to amplify the voices of STH students by promoting and sharing a range of perspectives on matters of ...
jacobs, shaunesse’ a.
core  

The Construction of a Bestseller: The Case of Thomas Nettleton's Some Thoughts Concerning Virtue and Happiness (1729)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Scholars have tended to interpret Thomas Nettleton's bestselling Virtue and Happiness (1729) as an Epicurean work. In contrast, I argue that this book was constructed partly from extensive paraphrases of the writings of Locke, Shaftesbury, and Hutcheson.
Jacob Donald Chatterjee
wiley   +1 more source

Black Theology relevance post-1994: Examining themes of debate during the Vellem era, 2010–2019

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies
In South Africa, debates on Black Theology of Liberation took various shapes over the years. The debates were impacted by different political contexts since the inception of this theology in this country, dating to the early 1970s.
Mnyalaza T. Masuku
doaj   +1 more source

Affective Infrastructure: Capitalism's Specters in the Ecovillage Findhorn Community

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Ecovillage Findhorn Community (EFC) in Northeast Scotland seeks to live in harmony with nature. How the community has done this over its 60‐plus years has changed from social communalism, where residents lived in cheap caravans, to now mostly privately‐owned expensive ‘eco’ houses with green technology.
Kelsey D. Grubbs
wiley   +1 more source

A Black Theology of Divine Violence

open access: yesBlack Theology Papers Project, 2019
This paper claims that the black church community had a well-articulated theology which included a prominent place for a Black Theology of Divine Violence.
Donald Henry Matthews
doaj   +1 more source

I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, and the Church [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The goal of this project, “I Gotta Testify: Kanye West, Hip Hop, and the Church,” is to add a new perspective to the scholarly discourse on Hip Hop and Christianity within classrooms, religious institutions, and popular culture by focusing on Kanye.
Ford, VaNatta S.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Phantasmic Encounters in the Arctic: Haunting Materialities Beyond the Ghosts of War

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the vast north, ghostly experiences are common for locals and outsiders alike. Here, we explore how cultural‐natural attributes, like remoteness and extreme seasonal variation, compound experiences of the haunting in visceral ways. This provides the Arctic region with an unusually pronounced baseline of other‐than‐human agency, which in the
Aki Hakonen, Oula Seitsonen
wiley   +1 more source

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