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Casting Down the Host of Heaven: The Rhetoric of Ritual Failure in the Polemic Against the Host of Heaven (2020)
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Quine, C. (2020). Casting Down the Host of Heaven: The Rhetoric of Ritual Failure in the Polemic Against the Host of Heaven. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004424395

In Casting Down the Host of Heaven Cat Quine analyses the ambiguous nature of the Host and explores the role of ritual in the polemic against their worship. Although commonly assumed to be YHWH’s divine army, the book reveals their non-military and f... Read More about Casting Down the Host of Heaven: The Rhetoric of Ritual Failure in the Polemic Against the Host of Heaven.

Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I: The Genesis and Development of the Tetralogy and the Appropriation of Sources, Artists, Philosophers, and Theologians (2020)
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Bell, R. (2020). Theology of Wagner's Ring Cycle I: The Genesis and Development of the Tetralogy and the Appropriation of Sources, Artists, Philosophers, and Theologians. Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock

Considers how Wagner's Ring Cycle developed over its 26 year composition and how the composer appropriated his sources. The aim is to uncover the theology implicit in the artwork.

Ibn Taymiyya (2019)
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Hoover, J. (2019). Ibn Taymiyya. London, England: Oneworld Academic

Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328) of Damascus was one of the most prominent and controversial religious scholars of medieval Islam. He called for jihad against the Mongol invaders of Syria, appealed to the foundational sources of Islam for reform, and battled... Read More about Ibn Taymiyya.

God & the Gothic: Religion, Romance, & Reality in the English Literary Tradition (2018)
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Milbank, A. (2018). God & the Gothic: Religion, Romance, & Reality in the English Literary Tradition. Oxford: Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824466.001.0001

God and the Gothic undertakes a complete reimagining of the Gothic literary canon to examine its engagement with theological ideas, tracing its origins to the apocalyptic critique of the Reformation female martyrs, and to the Dissolution of the Monas... Read More about God & the Gothic: Religion, Romance, & Reality in the English Literary Tradition.

Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media (2017)
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Hutchings, T. (2017). Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203111093

© 2017 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. Online churches are internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, discussion, friendship, support, proselytization, and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. Hundr... Read More about Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media.

Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred (2016)
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T. Hutchings, & J. McKenzie (Eds.), (2016). Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred. doi:10.4324/9781315604787

Material culture has emerged in recent decades as a significant theoretical concern for the study of religion. This book contributes to and evaluates this material turn, presenting thirteen chapters of new empirical research and theoretical reflectio... Read More about Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred.

Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age (2015)
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Knight, F. (2015). Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing

The period known as the fin de siecle - defined in this groundbreaking book as chiefly the period between1885 and 1901 - was a fluid and unsettling epoch of optimism and pessimism, endings and beginnings, aswell as of new forms of creativity and anxi... Read More about Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age.

Theology and Literature after Postmodernity (2015)
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Lehmann Imfeld, Z., Hampson, P., & Milbank, A. (Eds.). (2015). Theology and Literature after Postmodernity. London, England: Bloomsbury T & T Clark

This volume deploys theology in a reconstructive approach to contemporary literary criticism, to validate and exemplify theological readings of literary texts as a creative exercise. It engages in a dialogue with interdisciplinary approaches to liter... Read More about Theology and Literature after Postmodernity.

The Eucharist: Origins and Contemporary Understandings (2015)
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O'Loughlin, T. (2015). The Eucharist: Origins and Contemporary Understandings. London, England: T. & T. Clark / Bloomsbury

Theological reflection upon the Eucharist is dominated by two paradigms: One approach interprets the Eucharist almost exclusively in theological terms, shaped by Scholasticism and the Reformation. Most discussions about the nature of the Eucharist, E... Read More about The Eucharist: Origins and Contemporary Understandings.

Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion (2014)
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Crouch, C. (2014). Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion. Atlanta, Georgia: SBL Press

Crouch focuses on Deuteronomy’s subversive intent, asking what would be required in order for Deuteronomy to successfully subvert either a specific Assyrian source or Assyrian ideology more generally. The book reconsiders the nature of the relationsh... Read More about Israel and the Assyrians: Deuteronomy, the Succession Treaty of Esarhaddon, and the Nature of Subversion.

Jewish cryptotheologies of late modernity: philosophical marranos (2014)
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BIELIK-ROBSON, A. (2014). Jewish cryptotheologies of late modernity: philosophical marranos. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315774466

This book aims to interpret ‘Jewish Philosophy’ in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a ‘secret message’ which cannot find an open articulation. The Marrano phenomenon is employe... Read More about Jewish cryptotheologies of late modernity: philosophical marranos.

The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy (2014)
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Crouch, C. (2014). The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers

In The Making of Israel C.L. Crouch presents the southern Levant during the seventh century BCE as a major period for the formation of Israelite ethnic identity, challenging scholarship which dates biblical texts with identity concerns to the exilic... Read More about The Making of Israel: Cultural Diversity in the Southern Levant and the Formation of Ethnic Identity in Deuteronomy.

Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence (2014)
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Bielik-Robson, A., Goetschel, W., Fagenblat, M., Cohen-Levinas, D., Leder, A., Lipszyc, A., …Sherwood, Y. (2014). A. Bielik-Robson, & A. Lipszyc (Eds.). Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315816760

The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition in contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and influences – on the other hand, difficult to defin... Read More about Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence.