In Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue, the author uses the discipline of comparative theology to illumine how Indigenous insights can unearth a fresh theology of place. He proposes that certain places are kairotic, and so kenotic, harmonic, poetic and especially enlightening at the margins where we meet the religious other.
This book discusses how the traditional democratic institutions seem to be falling apart or operate in mutual contradiction in the U.S. Guiding "values" no longer serve the common good but give rise to sharp hostility and violence. The same disarray prevails in international politics. A remedy is desperately needed.
The Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America
This book argues that the othering and criminalization of Black people in times of crisis is part of the religious meaning of America that fuels the problem of mass incarceration. The author develops a religious interpretation of the significance of these images to America's political economy the produces the very problems we punish as a society.
This book explores the difficult topic of those who assault our being human from abortion to end-of-life victims. Human vulnerabilities are exploited, cast as "otherness" to enable "self" will-to-power over the "other."
This book explores the different types of compromises Indian people were forced to make and must continue to do so in order to be included in the colonizer's religion and culture. The contributors in this collection are in conversation with the contributions made by Tink Tinker.
Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom
The Other Black Church places Father Divine, Charles Mason of COGIC, and Albert Cleage in conversation with the long history of Black theology and Black religious studies, and it suggests that alternative Christian movements are essential for thinking about African American critiques of and responses to the failures of US-based democracy.
This book probes how a twelfth-century woman became a Gospel interpreter, analyses the creative methodology and themes of the homilies, and deals with the vast legacy of Hildegard's works, including their relevance for today.
This book explores matters relating to indigenous land and people, feminist theology, multiculturalism and intercultural theologies, sexual abuse, suicide and worship, church tradition(ing)s and betrayal, art and masculinity, climate change and climate justice, disability theories, Islamic insights, migration and the need to reimagine home.
Christian Theology after Christendom brings together contemporary thinkers to engage and build upon Douglas John Hall's work-and to take up his challenge to reclaim a contextual and de-colonizing theology of the cross as a means to speak of the realities of life and faith today.
