THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
Sister Death
Energy and Change
Beatrice Marovich
Clayton Crockett
Political Theologies for Living and Dying
A New Materialist Cosmotheology
Drawing on a wide range of sources—from Toni Morrison to Derrida to grassroots “death positive” movements—Beatrice Marovich critiques a political theology that pits life and death against each other in a state of endless war. Adapting the figure of “Sister Death” from Saint Francis, she calls for recognizing that life and death are family.
Clayton Crockett offers an innovative philosophy of energy that cuts across a number of leadingedge disciplines. Drawing from contemporary philosophies of new materialism, non-Western traditions, and the sciences, he develops a comprehensive vision of energy as a material process spanning physics, biology, politics, ecology, and religion.
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INSURRECTIONS: CRITICAL STUDIES IN RELIGION, POLITICS, AND CULTURE
A Friendship in Twilight
Liquid Light
Ayahuasca Spirituality and the Santo Daime Tradition
Lockdown Conversations on Death and Life
G. William Barnard
Jack Miles and Mark C. Taylor
The Santo Daime is a syncretic religion whose spiritual practice is based around the sacramental use of ayahuasca. G. William Barnard—an initiate of the religion and a scholar of religious studies—considers the religious practice and transformative inner experiences of the Santo Daime community. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18661-2 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18660-5 2022 360 pages
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Jack Miles and Mark Taylor have both in different ways brought religious and philosophical concerns into the wider world. Approaching the end of their careers as well as the end of their lives, they were prompted by the advent of a deadly pandemic amid worldwide political crises to discuss, among other issues: Can philosophy help us intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually understand and accept our fundamental impermanence? $26.00 / £20.00 paper 978-0-231-20595-5 $110.00 / £92.00 cloth 978-0-231-20594-8 2022 400 pages
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