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This month, Bloomsbury Collections features titles on topics in religion. Explore the titles below to learn about religion in different areas of study and culture.
This book explores the interplay between history, Judaism, and the environment through the prism of natural disasters. Its timely and important argument demonstrates how a new engagement with Jewish history and thought may help us to grapple with the environmental challenges of today and the future.
Read this chapter to examine earthquakes in medieval and early modern history, with a special focus on Jewish responses to earthquakes in mid-eighteenth-century England. The chapter includes discussions about earthquakes in the Bible, rabbinic thought, and scientific and philosophical writing in Late Antiquity. The experiences of people in the past provide us with important lessons on how to understand and respond to disasters when they happen and how to prepare for them before they occur.
Solidarity and Power: Feminist Approaches to Religious Ethics explores questions and debates that have long perplexed religious ethicists, such as the relationship between descriptive (“how do we act?”) and normative (“how should we act?”) inquiry, and how those can be productively addressed by drawing on resources from feminist work. It also highlights case studies from different religious communities on moral issues to demonstrate how feminist approaches provide innovative responses to contemporary questions.
In this chapter, Audre Lorde is uplifted as a feminist and Black freedom movement activist who developed psychological and emotional capacities for engaging nuanced dynamics in grassroots political communities. Though Lorde did not self-identify as a Buddhist, she is a cutting-edge voice who illuminates Buddhist doctrines and practices that buttress and sustain the difficult work of dismantling systems of oppression while cultivating respectful, enduring solidarity and community.
In an era shaped by increasing levels of religious non-affiliation and social polarization, this book explores religious ideas and practices that empower practitioners to meet universal yet deeply personal human needs and desires by engaging with popular culture. Employing theoretical lenses of implicit theology and secular spirituality, it blurs the boundaries between religion and popular culture to develop meaning-making in science fiction, fantasy, and horror media.
This chapter offers a consideration of secular spirituality in Season 1 of the Apple TV+ series Severance using the apparatus of the Split, a tactic that separates and compartmentalizes the sacred and the secular from each other.
Through surveying the ways in which love was used to make sense of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures, Interpreting the Bible and the Qur’an through Love: Scripture, Love, and Hermeneutics advocates and argues for a hermeneutical approach that reads the Bible and the Qur’an through the lens of love. Engaging various exegetical authorities from the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, it identifies numerous cases of love-informed exegesis covering diverse themes and techniques.
This chapter explores God’s love through a series of readings in biblical and Qurʾānic texts, showing the ways through which God’s love is represented in the Bible and the Qurʾān and how it has been derived and interpreted by the exegetical traditions even when the scriptural texts are not explicit on the theme of love.
Queer Religiosities is the first comprehensive, comparative, and globally focused introduction to queer and transgender studies in religion. Addressing sophisticated topics in clear and accessible language, award-winning teacher and scholar Melissa M. Wilcox brings her engaging lecture style into conversation with the work of scholars around the globe to welcome students into these rapidly growing fields.
This chapter explores stories, as they are related to religion and queer communities, and the intersection of both, identifying four types of stories that characterize the relationships between queer people, transgender people, and religion.
Explore the Bible’s enduring influence on Western literature across millennia with featured content from The Bible and Western Christian Literature collection on Theology & Religion Online. From the allegorical depths of early Christian exegesis to the poetic reimaginings of Romanticism, this landmark series traces how Scripture has shaped—and been shaped by—Western literary culture. Access free-to-read chapters and uncover how biblical texts have inspired, challenged, and transformed writers, thinkers, and theologians from Late Antiquity to the present day.
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