RELIGION & THEOLOGY Living with Tiny Aliens
Circling the Elephant
“God’s light is not reflected but rather refracted among those who bear the divine image on Earth. What about God’s image on other planets and moons, those simple microbes? Adam Pryor is unique in exploring the theological implications of tiny aliens.”—Ted Peters, co-editor, Theology and Science Astrobiology is changing how we understand meaningful human existence. Living with Tiny Aliens is an effort to imagine how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists when we are planetary creatures situated in deep time—not only on a blue planet burgeoning with life, but in a cosmos pregnant with living-possibilities.
Christian theologians have for some decades affirmed that they have no monopoly on encounter with God or ultimate reality; other religions also have access to religious truth and transformation. If so, the time has come for Christians not just to learn about but also from their religious neighbors. Circling the Elephant affirms that the best way to move toward the mystery of divinity is to move toward the mystery of the neighbor. In this book, Thatamanil employs the ancient Indian allegory of the elephant and blindfolded men to argue for the integration of three, often-separated theological projects: comparative theology, constructive theology, and theologies of religious diversity.
The Image of God for the Anthropocene ADAM PRYOR
240 PAGES 9780823287710, PAPERBACK, $30.00, £23.99 Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology M AY 2020
Grave Attending
A Political Theology for the Unredeemed KAREN BRAY
“In Grave Attending, Bray forges a bold, and yet surprisingly gentle, theological response to the driving economies of salvation that flow through the bloodstream of U.S. politics and American Christianity. Immersed in multiple scholarly discourses, Bray manages to expose the significance of theology amongst these, as her theological vision insists on countering the pathologizing forces that either numb us or compel us to rise above suffering. She catches readers off-guard by crafting a lyrical work of theology that claims moods and modes of reflection that are often deemed unsuitable and unworthy. Bray’s theology claims the damned and damns the redemptive.”—Shelly Rambo, Boston University 272 PAGES 9780823286867, PAPERBACK, $35.00, £27.99 D E CE MB E R 201 9
A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity JOHN J. THATAMANIL
320 PAGES 9780823287734, PAPERBACK, $30.00, £23.99 Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions MAY 2 02 0
Beyond the Doctrine of Man
Decolonial Visions of the Human Joseph Drexler-Dreis and Kristien Justaert, Editors
“This interdisciplinary work moves from re-articulating the doctrine of man into a re-engagement with Christian theology in order to creatively and imaginatively present the reader with divinity in the flesh. Covering geopolitics and biopolitics and the matter of enfleshed resistance, Beyond the Doctrine of Man offers a challenge to theology from many sides, but a challenge it is meant to rise to, not buckle under. This is a remarkable book offering depth of academic analysis presented in an accessible manner.”—Lisa Isherwood, University of Winchester 304 PAGES 9780823285860, PAPERBACK, $35.00, £27.99 DE C E MB E R 2 01 9
Religion, Emotion, Sensation
Affect Theories and Theologies Karen Bray and Stephen D. Moore, Editors
Religion, Emotion, Sensation asks what affect theory has to say about God or gods, religion or religions, scriptures, theologies, and liturgies. Contributors explore the crossings and criscrossings between affect theory and theology and the study of religion more broadly, as well as the political and social import of such work. Bringing together affect theorists, theologians, biblical scholars, and scholars of religion, this volume enacts creative transdisciplinary interventions in the study of affect and religion through exploring such topics as biblical literature, Christology, animism, Rastafarianism, the women’s Mosque Movement, the unending Korean War, the Sewol ferry disaster, trans and gender queer identities, YA fiction, queer historiography, the prison industrial complex, debt and neoliberalism, and death and poetry. 272 PAGES 9780823285662, PAPERBACK, $35.00, £27.99 Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia D E CE MB E R 201 9
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