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Religion and Change in Modern Britain
2013
Is God Back? Reconsidering the New Visibility of Religion
2016
Introduction
2020
Theological and Philosophical Responses to Syncretism. Beyond the Mirage of Pure Religion, edited by Patrik Fridlund and Mika Vähäkangas
2021
The rhetoric of love in religious peacebuilding
2020
Religious leaders involved in peacebuilding initiatives often refer to the religious value of love to encourage groups in conflict to live peacefully together. In this article, I suggest that references to love as a religious value might contribute to bridging social capital, meaning social bonds between groups who have experienced conflict. However, without simultaneously addressing questions of justice, which is often necessary in violent conflicts, creating social bonds through references to love constitutes a weak contribution to peace. The article uses the study of a religious peacebuilding project in Ethiopia as an example and illustrates how religious leaders failed to make a substan…
TRANSFORMING THEOLOGICAL SYMBOLS
2010
. In this essay I explore the need for transforming the Christian theological symbols of the Trinity, Incarnation, and Redemption, which arose in the context of neo-Platonic metaphysics, in light of late modern, especially Peircean, metaphysics and categories. I engage and attempt to complement the proposal by Andrew Robinson and Christopher Southgate (in this issue of Zygon) with insights from the Peircean-inspired philosophical theology of Robert Neville. I argue that their proposal can be strengthened by acknowledging the way in which theological symbols themselves have a transformative (pragmatic) effect as they are “taken” in context and “break” on the Infinite.
The Question of Providence and the Problem of Evil in Suhrawardī
2021
Abstract Šihāb al-Dīn al-Suhrawardī’s philosophical works seem to contain two conflicting views on providence: in the Talwīḥāt and the Mašāriʿ, he endorses the Avicennian view, only to deny providence altogether in the Ḥikmat al-išrāq. This contribution aims to explain the seeming inconsistency by investigating it in light of the underlying question of God’s knowledge of particular things. I will also argue that despite his qualms concerning providence, Suhrawardī accepts the closely related Avicennian answer to the problem of evil.
From the Worship of God to the Worship of Beauty? The Reception of Italian Catholic Religious Paintings in the Private Chapels of English Country Hou…
2010
This study discusses the shifting reception of Italian Catholic religious paintings in the private chapels of English country houses. It first investigates how the practice of art collecting and patronage informs the strategies deployed by the English aristocracy to expunge from these pictures all Catholic overtones. It moves on to assess the impact of this ideological reinterpretation on works of art, whose original religious message was thus gradually displaced. The article concludes that these paintings came, effectively, to extol a religiosity of splendour, representative of a desire to glorify both the host's good taste and God's greatness.
Hors du cloître et dans le monde : Des Sœurs catholiques comme actrices transnationales
2012
Resume Cet article etudie les reseaux missionnaires catholiques entre l’Europe et l’Afrique, en particulier deux congregations africaines basees au Burkina Faso travaillant en Afrique et en Europe. L’analyse de cette forme specifique de la transnationalisation du religieux permet de saisir certaines tendances du processus de globalisation. Les religieuses africaines sont de plus en plus impliquees dans la pastorale en Europe tout en continuant leurs activites apostoliques dans leur continent d’origine. Les religieuses europeennes sont pour leur part de moins en moins presentes en Afrique ou elles operent au travers de reseaux transfrontaliers. Ce renversement des roles missionnaires traditi…