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“We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden (2017)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T. (2017). “We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 61(1), 90-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2016.1273930

© 2017 Broadcast Education Association. This article seeks to bring together the study of death, digital media, emotion and religion, using a Christian organization as a case study. The Swedish national church (Svenska kyrkan) has a large but declini... Read More about “We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden.

The bondage of the affections: willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525 (2016)
Book Chapter
Zahl, S. (2016). The bondage of the affections: willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525. In D. Coulter, & A. Yong (Eds.), The spirit, the affections, and the Christian tradition. University of Notre Dame

This essay examines the place of affectivity and emotion in Martin Luther's early theology 1513-25. After a critical discussion of the terminological complexities involved in analysing affectivity and the related category of desire in Luther's Latin... Read More about The bondage of the affections: willing, feeling, and desiring in Luther's theology, 1513-1525.

Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred (2016)
Book
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.

Habakkuk and the problem of suffering: theodicy deferred (2016)
Journal Article
Whitehead, P. (2016). Habakkuk and the problem of suffering: theodicy deferred. Journal of Theological Interpretation, 10.2, 265-281

A theological reading of the book of Habakkuk offers insight into the problem of suffering. Approaching the text canonically, this study aims to explore Habakkuk’s theological response to suffering, and the potential to relate this to Christian and c... Read More about Habakkuk and the problem of suffering: theodicy deferred.

Ibn taymiyya between moderation and radicalism (2016)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2016). Ibn taymiyya between moderation and radicalism. In E. Kendall, & A. Khan (Eds.), Reclaiming Islamic tradition: modern interpretations of the classical heritage. Edinburgh University Press

Teresa of Avila on Theology and Shame (2016)
Journal Article
Loumagne, M. (2018). Teresa of Avila on Theology and Shame. New Blackfriars, 99(1081), 388-402. https://doi.org/10.1111/nbfr.12235

This article examines Teresa of Avila's understanding of the relationship between spiritual dryness, intellectual frustration, and shame. It argues that Teresa presents these experiences as interconnected, as well as spiritually and intellectually va... Read More about Teresa of Avila on Theology and Shame.

Why the Bible matters: Islamic studies (2016)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2016). Why the Bible matters: Islamic studies. In C. Crouch, R. Deines, & M. Wreford (Eds.), Why does the Bible matter? The significance of the Bible for contemporary life. Bible Society

Made in the image of god: the creation of ???: the commissioning of the king and the chaoskampf of YHWH (2016)
Journal Article
Crouch, C. (2016). Made in the image of god: the creation of ???: the commissioning of the king and the chaoskampf of YHWH. Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions, 16(1), https://doi.org/10.1163/15692124-12341277

This article suggests that Genesis 1 and Psalms 8, 18 and 89 reflect a mythological tradition which described the creation of the human king as YHWH’s counterpart in the divine battle against chaos. The residual royal features of the narrative of the... Read More about Made in the image of god: the creation of ???: the commissioning of the king and the chaoskampf of YHWH.

On dying in a city gate: implications in the deaths of Eli, Abner and Jezebel (2016)
Journal Article
Quine, C. (2016). On dying in a city gate: implications in the deaths of Eli, Abner and Jezebel. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 40(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0309089215611532

Previously one could easily find works on the archaeology or biblical study of cities, defences, temples and houses, but in the past year, two publications on city gates have caught the eye. What follows is concerned with applying these new conversa... Read More about On dying in a city gate: implications in the deaths of Eli, Abner and Jezebel.

Ḥanbalī theology (2016)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2016). Ḥanbalī theology. In S. Schmidtke (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.001.0001

The modern study of Ḥanbalī theology was initially plagued by the problem of viewing Ḥanbalism through the eyes of its Ashʿarī opponents. I. Goldziher (d. 1921) and D. B. Macdonald (d. 1943) labelled the Ḥanbalīs ‘reactionary’ and bemoaned the harm t... Read More about Ḥanbalī theology.

A Muslim conflict over universal salvation (2015)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2015). A Muslim conflict over universal salvation. In H. Bacon, W. Dossett, & S. Knowles (Eds.), Alternative salvations: engaging the sacred and the secular. Bloomsbury Academic

Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle: The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age (2015)
Book
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.

E-Reading and the Christian Bible (2015)
Journal Article
Hutchings, T. (2015). E-Reading and the Christian Bible. Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses, 44(4), 423-440. doi:10.1177/0008429815610607

The Christian Bible is now available in thousands of digital forms, re-imagined for electronic reading on mobile, tablet and desktop screens. This article introduces findings from an online survey of digital Bible users, analysing their demographics,... Read More about E-Reading and the Christian Bible.