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"Agent Relative Ethics asks what the world would look like if we adopted agent relativity wholeheartedly, clinging to no shred of absolute morality. Alastair MacIntyre's haunting image of a post-apocalyptic world, in which our knowledge of ethics has been fragmented, poses a contrast between modern morality and ancient ethics. The two stand divided along the fault line of the nature of the good. Modern ethics has placed its stake in the absolute good, while ancient ethics rests upon the foundation of the relative good. Following the lead of Bernard Williams, Agent Relative Ethics identifies alienation as a disturbing symptom of the present focus upon absolute goods. It then completes the diagnosis of the malady afflicting modern moral theory by clarifying the difference between absolute and relative goods. The remainder of the book explores how agent relativity can overcome the modern fragmentation of our ethical knowledge. Not just any relative goods can rectify the modern disorder. Only shared goods, belonging to a union of individuals, are sufficiently robust to overthrow the contemporary despotism of neutral goods. These shared goods exhibit many parallels with common sense morality, including partiality, impartiality, punishment, and an antagonism toward harmfully using others together with a more lenient attitude toward foreseeing harm. The final chapters probe the conditions, often unpalatable to the modern mind, by which ethics might be restored. Agent Relative Ethics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics and moral theory, ancient ethics, and the history of philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

"Offers an interdisciplinary account of prophecy as a topic of discourse among various late antique Near Eastern communities. Against assumptions that prophecy ceased in the past, this book argues that it remained a topic of discourse among various Near Eastern communities"-- Provided by publisher.

• Editors' introduction: The pasts, presents, and futures of the study of material religion / Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Jennifer Scheper Hughes, S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate
• Part I. Genealogies of material religion. Spinoza : arch-father of the material-religion approach / Pooyan Tamimi Arab
• Material theories in Japanese Buddhism : what Kūkai and Dōgen thought about things / Pamela D. Winfield
• Gender, ritual, and dancing images : Jane E. Harrison's aesthetic approaches to the materiality of religion / Ulrike Brunotte
• The philosophy of Ubuntu and material religion in Africa : engaging Henry Rowley's mid-nineteenth century perspective on the materiality of religion / Kapya J. Kaoma
• Mesoamerican nightlife and the queer materialities of religion / Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez
• Comparison after materiality / Johan Strijdom
• Part II. Materializing the terms of the study of religion. Books in religious studies : from relentless textualism to embodied practices / Katja Rakow
• Of manuscripts that can't be read and roads that can't be seen : historical matters among Chams in Cambodia / Emiko Stock
• The recursivity of the fetish / Roger Sansi
• Animism? Animated? Ensouled? : the active lives of Balinese masks / Laurel Kendall and Ni Wayan Pasek Ariati
• "Brainsmithing" African material religion / Allen F. Roberts, / Mary "Polly" Nooter Roberts
• Crossing heritage : material religion at the Humboldt forum / Duane Jethro
• Material god Mengdu : a symbol and real presence / Yohan Yoo
• Three sacred mouthfuls : transformed and transformative materiality of sacred food in Hindu publics / Tulasi Srinivas
• Dark mirroring : the Satanic Temple's queer material religion / Sharday C. Mosurinjohn

• Part III. Entanglements, entrapments, escaping. The entanglements of religion and things / Ian Hodder
• Measuring entanglement in material traces of ritualized interaction : preferential attachment in a prehistoric petroglyph distribution / Tom Froese, / Emiliano Gallaga Murrieta
• "Disentangling" as an everyday practice : material, visual, sacred, and commodity features of "Puja things" / Vineeta Sinha
• Broken Buddhas : reflections on (im)materiality and impermanence / S. Romi Mukherjee
• Buddhist practice, recreation, and fun : entanglements of popular culture and material religion / Inken Prohl
• Christmas gifts at the turn of the twentieth century in Santiago, Chile : from a gift economy to commodity / Olaya Sanfuentes
• The jewel of men : weaponry as material religion among Muslim communities / Younes Saramifar
• Human-animal entanglements and the anthropology of sacrifice : practicing Qurbani in Mumbai / Shaheed Tayob
• Borrando la Frontera : Ana Teresa Fernández's transborder communion / Barbara Sostaita
• Part IV. Hyperobjects, or how ginormous things affect religion. The Erie Canal and the birth of American religion : infrastructure as hyperobject / S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate
• The Kumbh Mela as hyperobject : sound, scale, nation, environment / Amanda Lucia
• Sonic religion : the analysis of atmospheric half-things / Patrick Eisenlohr
• Mortandad as hyperobject : colonial death worlds and epidemic cataclysm in Las Américas / Jennifer Scheper Hughes
• Virus as hyperobject : early Atlantic world Jews and yellow fever epidemics / Laura Arnold Leibman
• On human extinction / Evander Price.

"The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion places objects and bodies at the center of scholarly studies of religious life and practice. Propelling forward the study of material religion, the Handbook first reveals the deep philosophical roots of its key categories and then advances new critical analytics, such as queer materialities, inescapable material entanglements, and hyperobjects that explode the small-scale personal view on religions. The Handbook comprises thirty chapters, written by an international team of contributors who offer a global perspective of religious pasts and presents, divided into four thematic parts: Genealogies of Material Religion Materializing the Terms of the Study of Religion Entanglements, Entrapment, Escaping Hyperobjects, or How Ginormous Things Affect Religions In these four parts, the study of material religion is redirected towards systematic, critical interrogations of the imbrication of religious structures of power with racial, economic, political, and gendered forms of domination. From Spinoza's political theology to African philosophies of ubuntu; from the queer materialities of Mesoamerican religion to the Satanic Temple of the United States; from Islamic love and sacrifice in human-animal entanglements to Shia militants' attachment to weaponry; from epidemic cataclysm in Latin America to vast infrastructures and the gathering of millions in India's Kumbh Mela, the study of material religion proves to be the study par excellence of the human condition. The Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, anthropology, history, and media studies, and will also be of interest to those in related fields such as archeology, sociology, and philosophy"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book engages the problem of how, in the 21st century, we are to speak about experiences of the extraordinary/anomalous/extreme which occur on a transhistorical and transcultural basis. Critical re-readings of seminal texts show how 20th-century theoreticians in the humanities sought to erase madness from their irrational subjects. This propensity to sanitize madness in the study of religions was mirrored by the instinct of psychiatrists to degrade religious experiences by reducing mad consciousness to psychosis or dissociation. Richard Saville-Smith introduces explanatory pluralism as a way of recognizing these disciplinary biases and mad studies as a way of negotiating this understanding. The disproportionate significance of madness in shaping the fabric of the human story can then be recovered from both erasure and dismissal to be given the recognition previously denied - as acute religious experiences." -- Page 4 of cover.

• An anarchic introduction (antiblackness as religion)
• Black (feminist) anarchy
• The matter of anarchy
• Anarchy and the fetish
• The anarchy of Black religion
• Anarchy is a poem, is a song . . .
• An anarchic coda (a mystic song).

"In The Anarchy of Black Religion, J. Kameron Carter argues that the modern re-invention of religion is inseparable from antiblackness, with whiteness and white supremacy acting as political theologies forming the modern world. Carter employs an understanding of religion as a structuring imagination of matter and culture, opening a way of thinking about racial histories, racial subjection, ontology, and the present as religious configurations. Given the extent to which religion exists within the colonial and capitalist cosmology of separability, Carter proposes "the black study of religion" as a practice that would work against the extractive, individualistic, and imperialist ideology of capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.

• An anarchic introduction (antiblackness as religion)
• Black (feminist) anarchy
• The matter of anarchy
• Anarchy and the fetish
• The anarchy of Black religion
• Anarchy is a poem, is a song . . .
• An anarchic coda (a mystic song).

"In The Anarchy of Black Religion, J. Kameron Carter argues that the modern re-invention of religion is inseparable from antiblackness, with whiteness and white supremacy acting as political theologies forming the modern world. Carter employs an understanding of religion as a structuring imagination of matter and culture, opening a way of thinking about racial histories, racial subjection, ontology, and the present as religious configurations. Given the extent to which religion exists within the colonial and capitalist cosmology of separability, Carter proposes "the black study of religion" as a practice that would work against the extractive, individualistic, and imperialist ideology of capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.

"Many people who have thought about God have not thought about animals, or about the relationship between the two. But some have, and they have been among some of the most celebrated religious thinkers, including Michel de Montaigne, Thomas Tryon, John Wesley, John Ruskin, Leo Tolstoy, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Albert Schweitzer, and Paul Tillich. This volume comprises 24 scholarly studies that detail challenges to the dominant anthropocentrism of most religious traditions. The editors have brought together Jewish, Unitarian, Christian, transcendentalist, Muslim, Hindu, Dissenting, deist, and Quaker voices, all offering unique theological perspectives that reverse the neglect of the nonhuman. This work is an act of reclaiming different traditions for animals by recovering lost voices"-- Provided by publisher

Atheists are a growing but marginalized group in the American religious patchwork and they have been the target of ridicule and discrimination throughout the nation's history. This book is the first comprehensive study of anti-atheism in the United States. It traces anti-atheism through five centuries of American history from colonization to the era of Donald Trump and contemporary conspiracy ideologies, such as the atheist New World Order. Describing anti-atheist prejudices and explaining the social and psychological mechanisms behind anti-atheist attitudes, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, religious studies and history with interests in religion in the United States

• Introduction /
• 1. Taborite Revolutionary Apocalypticism: Mapping Influences and Divergences /
• 2. Heretical Eschatology and Its Impact on Radical Reformation Movements: The Flagellants of Thuringia in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Thomas Muntzer, and the Anabaptists /
• 3. Terror, War and Reformation: Ivan the Terrible in the Age of Apocalypticism /
• 4. A Messiah from the Left Side /
• 5. Millenarian News and Connected Spaces in 17th-Century Europe /
• 6. Carvajal and the Franciscans: Jewish-Christian Eschatological Expectations in a New World Setting /
• 7. Kabbalistic Influences on "Pietistic" Millenarian Expectations: Philipp Jakob Spener's (1635-1705) Eschatological View Between Scripture and Christian Kabbalah /
• 8. Everyday Apocalypse: Russian and Jewish "Sects" at the End of the Eighteenth Century /
• 9. Margins of the Encubierto: The Messianic Kings' Tradition in the Iberian World (15th-17th Centuries) /
• 10. Mirror Images: Imperial Eschatology and Interreligious Transfer in Seventeenth-Century Greek Orthodoxy /
• 11. Restorers of the Divine Law: Native American Revolts in the New World, Christianity, and the Quest for Purity in the Age of Revolution.
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Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their religious activism. From the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, numerous apocalyptical and messianic movements came to the fore across Eurasia and North Africa, raising questions about possible interconnections. Why were eschatological movements so pervasive in early modern times? This volume provides some answers to this question by exploring the interconnected histories of confessions and religions from Moscow to Cusco. It offers a broad picture of Christian and, to a lesser extent, Jewish and Islamic eschatological movements from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, thereby bridging important and long-standing gaps in the historiography. Apocalypse Now will appeal to both researchers and students of the history of early modern religion and politics in the Christian, Jewish and Islamic worlds. By exploring connections between numerous eschatological movements, it gives a fresh insight into one of the most promising fields of European and global history.
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"In this book, the author analyzes myths from around the world to argue for the existence of a dying and rising god archetype. In the process, he draws out interpretive implications of the myths for not only myth studies per se, but also studies in religion, literature, and psychology"-- Provided by publisher

"Architecture of Sovereignty focuses on the Pudu Mandapam (in Tamil, 'new hall'), which is a Hindu structure in Madurai, a major pilgrimage town in Tamil Nadu. From various stages in South Indian history, the site has symbolically encoded the power of several regimes as far back as Nayaka rule in the seventeenth century. The proposed monograph 'reads' these layers of political power as embodied in aesthetic forms in and around the Pudu Mandapam. Relying upon sources including temple manuscripts and legends, physical architecture, sculptures, ritual, letters, travelogues, bronze models, paintings and drawings, photographs, tourism ephemera, and interviews, the narrative employs a multidisciplinary approach to illustrate how religious, economic, domestic, and foreign influences converge in shaping and conceptualizing the Pudu Mandapam as a place, and India as an object and problem of government. In so doing, it shows how the art and architecture of the Pudu Mandapam have been put to different uses towards diverse ends by ruling groups from early modern times to British colonialism to the postcolonial period"-- Provided by publisher.

"The universe turns out to be full of habitable planets. In this book, both the theological expert and the general reader (with theological bearings) are taken on the journey of thinking about how Christian theology should respond. Returning to Earth at the end, we find our understanding of existing themes stretched and enriched"-- Provided by publisher