Using material from fieldwork and engaging in dialogue with literature on religion and HIV and AIDS in Zimbabwe, this book reviews the responses of African Initiated Churches to the pandemic. The book describes how African Independent Churches have adopted different strategies to provide effective responses to the pandemic.
In this book, Joseph Loic Mben develops an African Christian social ethic that empowers and addresses the needs of poor and working-class African women.
This book examines connections between sociologist-theologian Jacques Ellul and philosopher-phenomenologist Paul Virilio. As it explores the postwar France context and compares their works on technology, it identifies the components of a nascent theological tradition that exposes, and attempts to dismantle, modernity's primary idol: technology.
This book is a detailed study of how, according to Thomas Aquinas and his works, God's Holy Spirit is continuously at work in and through human moral activity.
Religion, Environmental Change, and Environmental Concern in the United
Faiths in Green examines how the relationship between religious upbringing, affiliation, disaffiliation, and environmental concern in the United States has changed over time. Public opinion data combined with historical insights show how and why religious groups have constructively responded to environmental change across generations.
This book brings Jewish moral reasoning into conversation with Richard Rorty's secular neo-pragmatist philosophy, which oftentimes comes across as anti-religious. The result is a type of hope for the future concerning the relationship between Judaism and secularism.
God, Race, and History examines how Christian theologies of providence have served as sites at which race has been constructed and resisted in modernity. It articulates an account of providence as the presence of Jesus Christ in the struggles of ordinary, overlooked, and oppressed human creatures to survive and flourish.
Embodying Aga Tausili is a groundbreaking contextual approach to public theology which constructs a theological response to social problems by interweaving the Samoan and Christian values of service, respect, dialogue, love and justice. The public theology that emerges is then applied to the problem of violence against women in Samoa.
Madness, Mysticism, and the Origins of Clinical Pastoral Education
In this book, Sean J. LaBat provides a critical re-assessment of Anton Boisen's life and work. He demonstrates how the founder of clinical pastoral education and institutional chaplaincy suffered from mental illness, yet was also a visionary who pioneered patient-centered care and reconciled science and religion in his work as a chaplain.
