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MARTIN, JAMIE. "LIBERALISM AND HISTORY AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR: THE CASE OF JACOB TAUBES." Modern Intellectual History 14, no. 1 (April 23, 2015): 131–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479244315000116.

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Before his death in 1987, Jacob Taubes played an important role in postwar German academic philosophy and religious thought. Best known for his leftist political theology and scholarship on the history of Western eschatology, Taubes's thought was influential on mid-twentieth-century debates in Germany about secularization and modern political theology. Outside his relationship with Carl Schmitt, however, Taubes has received little attention in histories of postwar European thought, and few attempts have been made to understand his idiosyncratic work on its own terms. This essay presents new contexts for understanding Taubes and his political-theological critique of the ideological dominance of liberalism in postwar Germany. By analyzing Taubes's thought through the lens of his intellectual quarrel with Hans Blumenberg over secularization, it reassesses his contributions to postwar debates about the political temporality appropriate to a secular and non-utopian social theory, and the consequences of these debates for broader critiques of political liberalism.
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Lassalle-Klein, Robert. "Jesus of Galilee and the Crucified People: The Contextual Christology of Jon Sobrino and Ignacio Ellacuría." Theological Studies 70, no. 2 (May 2009): 347–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/004056390907000207.

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The author argues that the Christian historical realism of Ignacio Ellacuría and the “saving history” Christology of Jon Sobrino form a post-Vatican II contextual theology unified by two fundamental claims: the historical reality of Jesus is the real sign of the Word made flesh, and the analogatum princeps of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth is to be found today among the “crucified peoples” victimized by various forms of oppression around the globe. Sobrino and Ellacuría are situated as important interpreters of Rahner, Ignatius Loyola, Augustine, Medellín, and key European phenomenologists.
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Gisel, Pierre. "TEOLOGIA E CIÊNCIAS DAS RELIGIÕES: POR UMA OPOSIÇÃO EM PERSPECTIVA." Perspectiva Teológica 43, no. 120 (April 25, 2012): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.20911/21768757v43n120p165/2011.

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O texto retoma e aprofunda a relação entre teologia e ciências das religiões na atualidade, tendo como ponto de partida a situação europeia, e mais especificamente a Suíça, onde o autor, teólogo reformado, ensina. Começa com uma releitura da história dessas disciplinas na academia, na qual são apresentadas as dificuldades de cada uma: as ciências das religiões, provenientes da história das religiões e com falta de clareza quanto a seu método e a seu objeto, e a teologia, sobretudo a moderna, também com problemas de método e de objeto, já que somente suas disciplinas históricas são consideradas universitárias e não as sistemáticas. Após essa releitura, passa-se a uma interrogação mais aprofundada sobre o que diferencia as duas disciplinas nas sociedades pluralistas atuais, propondo, numa última parte, algumas modificações em ambas para uma fecundação mútua num mundo onde o campo religioso parece demandar uma inteligência mais apurada, que não pode ser dada apenas por uma abordagem das ciências das religiões e tampouco pela teologia.ABSTRACT: The text reexamines and deepens the relation between theology and sciences of the religions in the present time, having as starting point the European situation, and more specifically Switzerland, where the author, a reformed theologian, teaches. It starts with a rereading of the history of these disciplines in the academic sphere, in which the difficulties of each one are presented: sciences of the religions, proceeding from history of the religions and with a lack of clarity in terms of its method and its object, and theology, overall modern theology, also with object and method problems, since its only historical disciplines are considered university and not systematic. After this rereading, the text advances with a deeper interrogation on what differentiates the two disciplines in the current pluralistic societies, proposing, in a last part, some modifications in both for a mutual enrichment in a world where the religious field seems to demand a more refined intelligence, that can be given neither by just a treatment of sciences of the religions and nor by just a treatment of theology.
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Mikhaylov, Petr. "Spirituality as a Subject of Academic Studies in Continental Theology of the Twentieth Century." European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7, no. 2 (June 21, 2015): 193–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v7i2.127.

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I examine mystical experience through the history of European religious thought, its modern state, and different spiritual practices of the Patristic epoch. The survey gives some definitions: mystical experience is situated in the field of spirituality along with practices of its acquisition – ascetics; and the fruits of it – theology and doctrine. The second part of the article is devoted to a wide field of Christian texts as a representative example of the same experience of the crystallization of mystical experience in ancient tradition, providing a few general types. Reading of religious texts is related very closely with the spiritual condition of the reader and supposes that he/she changes radically in the process of reading, being involved in some existential- hermeneutic circle.
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Çimen, Ünsal. "Francis Bacon and the Relation between Theology and Natural Philosophy." Synthesis philosophica 34, no. 1 (2019): 105–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21464/sp34108.

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The Reformation in European history was an attempt to remove ecclesiastical authority from political (or secular) authority and culture – a process called secularisation. During the eighteenth and especially nineteenth centuries, however, secularisation gained a different meaning, which is, briefly stated, evolving from religiousness to irreligiousness. Instead of referring to becoming free from religious tutelage, it began to refer to the total isolation of societies from religion. For those who saw secularisation as atheism, having ideas which were supportive of secularisation and having a religious basis was contradictory. For example, Francis Bacon was interpreted as non-secular due to his usage of the Bible as his reference to justify his ideas regarding the liberation of science from theology. Contrarily, in this paper, I argue that Bacon’s philosophy of nature is secular. To do this, alongside addressing Biblical references presented in his works, I will also explore how Bacon freed natural (or secular) knowledge from religious influences by removing final causes from natural philosophical inquiries.
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Kim, Kirsteen. "Christianity’s Role in the Modernization and Revitalization of Korean Society in the Twentieth-Century." International Journal of Public Theology 4, no. 2 (2010): 212–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156973210x491903.

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AbstractThe development of South Korea and its growth to become the world’s eleventh largest economy has been accompanied by the introduction of Christianity and its increase to become the major religious group, to which nearly thirty per cent of the population are affiliated. This article probes the connection between these two spectacular examples of development; economic and religious. By highlighting moments or episodes of Christian contribution to aspects of development in Korean history and linking these to relevant aspects of Korean Christian theology, there is shown to be a constructive, although not always intentional, link between Korean Christianity and national development. The nature of the Christian contribution is seen not primarily in terms of the work ethic it engenders (as argued by Max Weber in the case of European capitalism) but mainly in the realm of aspirations (visions, hope) of a new society and motivation (inspiration, empowerment) to put them into effect. In other words, it was the public theology of Christianity that played a highly significant role in the modernization and revitalization of Korean society in the twentieth century.
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HALL, DAVID D. "Transatlantic Puritanism and American Singularities." Journal of Ecclesiastical History 68, no. 1 (January 2017): 113–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022046916000610.

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The taunting question posed in the 1820s by the English critic Sidney Smith, ‘Who reads an American book?’, has long since tumbled into the dustbin of literary history. Yet it continues to reverberate in how Americanists describe the workings of Puritanism in their own country, its presence felt in two respects. One of these is resentment at the indifference to their own work of historians of the Puritan movement in Britain. Another is the assumption among Americanists that the Puritanism of the colonists who arrived in the early seventeenth century was singular in certain respects, be it their sense of ‘errand’, their modifications of Reformed orthodoxy, or perhaps their daring experiment with a congregation-centred polity, the ‘New England Way’. Whenever historians turn to the larger project of Church and State in colonial and modern America, assertions of singularity dominate the telling of our religious history. Do these endeavours warrant returning to Sidney Smith's question and rephrasing it to ask whether Americanists are making the most of European studies of Reformed theology, Puritanism in Britain, and conformity or dissent?
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Radul, Dmitry N. "PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS VIEWS OF FLORENSKY AND THE IDEA OF ACTUAL INFINITY." Study of Religion, no. 1 (2019): 108–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.22250/2072-8662.2019.1.108-113.

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The article briefly observes the history of the idea of the actual infinity in European culture until the beginning of the 20th century. Special attention is paid to the role of Cantor set theory in reviving interest in the idea of actual infinity in Western Europe and Russia. The influence of the Cantor’s philosophy of religion on the Western European theology of the late 19th century - early 20th century is given. The influence of Cantor’s ideas on the formation of Florensky’s views is described. A detailed analysis of the application of the idea of actual infinity in the book “The Pillar and the Statement of Truth” is given. Florensky describes the understanding of the connection of Kant’s antinomical of reason and the idea of a potential infinity. The potential infinity is considered by Florensky as a source of imperfection and sinfulness. Special attention is paid to the understanding of truth as actual infinity. The introduction of the actual infinity allows Florensky to remove the one-sidedness of the law of identity and the law of sufficient basis in the Supreme unity...
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Javorskiy, Dmitriy. "Theology in a Post-Secular Context: Origins, Problems, and Prospects." Logos et Praxis, no. 2 (December 2020): 5–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/lp.jvolsu.2020.2.1.

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The article reconstructs the cultural conditions of the possibility of theology as a specific intellectual practice. The author proceeds from the understanding of the divine as non-anthropic, that is, beyond the control of man, but at the same time exerting an irresistible influence on him. In this context, the divine appears as unintelligible, which casts doubt on the project of theology as a form of cognition of the divine. However, despite this, in the ancient Greek Poleis, the divine becomes the subject of theology as a contemplative practice; it is the contemplative attitude to the deity that allows making the divine an object of cognition. A contemplative attitude to the divine has accompanied theology throughout its history. However, it is supplemented by a practical (liturgical) attitude. The secularization of Western European culture led to the separation of theology from religious practice. In modern times, there is a specific form of theology (crypto-theology) that allows thinking about the divine and its attributes, regardless of the experience of communion with God. Besides, extra-institutional theology is being formed, free from dogmatic restrictions and even a kind of amateurish theology, whose representatives did not have special, "school" training. All these transformations eventually led to the crisis of theology and the decline of its influence. At the same time, at the beginning of the XIX century, there were conditions for the emergence of a "modern theology" that responds to the challenges of secularism. In the second half of the twentieth century, the topic and problems of modern theology were also influenced by the programs of "overcoming metaphysics" (M. Heidegger) and "deconstruction" (J. Derrida). Modern theology basically positions itself as post-metaphysical and generates more or less radical projects of phenomenological theology (J.-L. Marion, J. Manoussakis) and negative theology (J. Derrida).
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van Liere, Lucien. "Cruciale Teksten: Theodor W. Adorno und Max Horkheimer, Dialektik der Aufklärung, Philosophische Fragmente (1947)." NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 68, no. 4 (November 18, 2014): 322–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/ntt2014.68.322.lier.

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In 1947, Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, two members of the so-called Frankfurt School of Sociology published The Dialectic of Enlightenment. The book, written in exile, did not study national-socialism as an accident or exception in European history, but rather as the result of an ongoing process of rationalization. The authors included a fierce critique of the capitalist modus of (re-)production as ‘culture industry’ that would in the end eliminate rational individuality. Although in the 1940ies the book did not receive very enthusiastic receptions, in the revolutionary sixties of the 20th century, the analytical frame developed in the book received more and more attention. Thinking about theology and religious studies in the 21st century, questions about perceptions of human dignity and individuality cannot go without relating these perceptions to the cultural context in which these are produced.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Religious history|European history|Theology"

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Delgadillo, Robert Francisco. "A study of El Censor| A new perspective of the Catholic Church in the Spanish Enlightenment." Thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, Center for Adv. Theological Study, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10127245.

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This dissertation investigates the role of El Censor, the essay periodical published in Spain from 1781 to 1787, in challenging government policies and church traditions during the Enlightenment. It argues that the editors and authors of the 167 discursos (essays) criticized social customs and institutions during the last two decades of the antiguo régimen while remaining firmly in their religious faith. The political and historical context of El Censor is presented against the backdrop of the absolutist policies of King Carlos III and the vigilance of the Spanish Inquisition. El Censor’s editors and publishers were Luis García Cañuelo and Luis Marcelino Pereira, who at first seemed enigmatic because of their political and religious views. Nevertheless, they and their contributors soon identified themselves as veritable enlightened men, who sought to modernize Spain and the Spanish Roman Catholic Church. In the weekly essays, they published their observations of everyday life and the iniquities that existed in the society of their time. Government authorities banned El Censor twice before shutting it down permanently. Afterwards, the Spanish Inquisition placed twenty-three of the discursos on the syllabus of forbidden books. This dissertation presents eight of the banned discursos with English translations and commentaries. More than two-hundred years after El Censor’s prohibition, the discursos continue to speak to twenty-first century readers about the absurdities and injustices of society and power. This dissertation gives credence to the study of the religious Enlightenment; it demonstrates that it was possible to be enlightened and a true Christian. It reveals that El Censor held onto idealist views and moral integrity while facing obstacles from government, church, and angry apologists. In the pages of the discursos, there are recognizable characters like Eusebio the pious hypocrite; Calixto the proud, lazy noble; Candido Zorrilla, the baroque fanatic; and Pedro Camueso y Machuca and el equívoco. This dissertation reveals several unexpected discoveries that challenge long-held notions about the Enlightenment, the Roman Catholic Church, and Spain.

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Finley, Jonathan Michael. "Postcolonial Cultural Hybridity and the Influence of the Gospel in Transnational French-Speaking Networks." Thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, School of Intercultural Studies, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13811425.

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A central feature of Christianity is the observable historical fact that the gospel of Jesus travels across cultural and geographic boundaries, influencing and transforming each new culture and place it touches. Postcolonial migration, urbanization, and the simultaneous development of global communication and transportation technologies have radically increased the frequency and duration of cross-cultural contact worldwide.

This study explores hybrid identity construction in a multicultural church in the Paris Region in order to understand the influence of the gospel within transnational French-speaking networks. I found that French hegemony, historically rooted in the colonial project, contributes both to the cohesion of multicultural churches and to the cross-cultural spread of the gospel within French-speaking networks.

Cultural hybrids serve as bridge people within transcultural, transnational, French-speaking networks. They maintain identities and social networks on both sides of given cultural, linguistic, geographic, and national frontiers. Unique hybrid identities offer equally unique opportunities to influence for Christ on both sides of a given boundary.

Cultural hybridity can be a privileged in-between space where the distinct nature of Christian faith becomes manifest. When observing one’s original culture as an outsider and taking on a new culture as an insider, both cultures are relativized. This critical posture unmasks totalistic ideologies and sends the cultural hybrid in search of a coherent identity, which participants found in Christ and his church.

While transnational French-speaking networks and cultural hybridity contribute providentially to the spread of the gospel, they can also be pursued as strategic resources for the mission enterprise. Transnational French-speaking social links can be intentionally followed across missional boundaries. These networks take many forms, each pregnant with unique opportunities. Cultural hybrids can lead strategically between diverse peoples for specific missional purposes within transcultural and transnational French-speaking networks. Hybrid leadership stands on a two-way bridge, bringing diverse peoples across in both directions for reconciliation, for cross-cultural collaboration, and to announce the good news where Jesus is not yet known.

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Kawczak, Steven M. "Beliefs and Approaches to Death and Dying in Late Seventeenth-Century England." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1320179487.

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Billman, Kevin M. "God in History: Religion and Historical Memory in Ottonian Germany." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1258413982.

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Kohn, Jarred Lee. "Martin Luther and the Diet of Worms:Yoking Lutheranism to Secular Power." Athenaeum of Ohio / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=athe152544579683434.

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Platon, Mircea Alexandru. "‘TOUCHSTONES OF TRUTH’: THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF JEAN-BAPTISTE-LOUIS GRESSET, LÉGER-MARIE DESCHAMPS, AND SIMON-NICOLAS-HENRI LINGUET." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1330711134.

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Hopkins, Stephen Chase Evans. "Solving the Old English Exodus: An Active Problem Solving Approach to the Poem." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1303488106.

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Hepworth, Nathan Henry. "For God and Country: The Politicization of English Martyrology." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1313587275.

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Karim, Armin. ""My People, What Have I Done to You?": The Good Friday Popule meus Verses in Chant and Exegesis, c. 380–880." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1396645278.

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Maroney, Fr Simon Mary of the Cross M. Carm. "Mary, Summa Contemplatrix in Denis the Carthusian." IMRI - Marian Library / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=udmarian1620301036422259.

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Books on the topic "Religious history|European history|Theology"

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Afterlives of the saints: Hagiography, typology, and Renaissance literature. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1996.

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Theology, politics, and letters at the crossroads of European civilization: Jacques Basnage and the Baylean Huguenot refugees in the Dutch republic. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: M. Nijhoff, 1987.

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Turning points in natural theology from Bacon to Darwin: The way of the argument from design. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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Københavns universitet. Søren Kierkegaard forskningscenteret., ed. Following the Cultured Public's Chosen One: Why Martensen Mattered to Kierkegaard. Denmark: Museum Tusculanum, 2008.

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Thompson, Curtis L. Following the Cultured Public's Chosen One: Why Martensen Mattered to Kierkegaard. Denmark: Museum Tusculanum, 2008.

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Frost, Kate Gartner. Holy delight: Typology, numerology, and autobiography in Donne's Devotions upon emergent occasions. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1990.

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Groningen), Germania Latina Conference (2nd 1992 University of. Pagans and Christians: The interplay between Christian Latin and traditional Germanic cultures in early medieval Europe : proceedings of the second Germania Latina Conference ... University of Groningen May 1992. Groningen: E.Forsten, 1995.

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Germania Latina Conference (2nd 1992 University of Groningen). Pagans and Christians: The interplay between Christian Latin and traditional Germanic cultures in early medieval Europe : proceedings of the Second Germania Latina Conference held at the University of Groningen, May 1992. Groningen: E. Forsten, 1995.

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The history of the Albigensian crusade: Peter of les-Vaux-de-Cernay's Historia Albigensis. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 2000.

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Petrus. The history of the Albigensian Crusade. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell Press, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Religious history|European history|Theology"

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Mueller, Max Perry. "Introduction." In Race and the Making of the Mormon People. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469636160.003.0002.

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This chapter introduces the book’s main argument: that the three original American races, “black,” “red,” and, “white,” were constructed first in the written archive before they were read onto human bodies. It argues that because of America’s uniquely religious history, the racial construction sites of Americans of Native, African, and European descent were religious archives. The Mormon people’s relationship with race serves as a case unto itself and a case study of the larger relationship between religious writings and race. During the nineteenth century early Mormons taught a theology of “white universalism,” which held that even non-whites, whom the Bible and the Book of Mormon taught were cursed with dark skin because of their ancestors’ sin against their families, could become “white” through dedication to the restored Mormon gospel. But Mormons eventually abandoned this “white universalism,” and instead taught and practiced a theology of white supremacy.
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Shreve, Grant. "Nephite Secularization; or, Picking and Choosing in The Book of Mormon." In Americanist Approaches to The Book of Mormon, 207–30. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190221928.003.0009.

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This chapter considers The Book of Mormon as a singular literary reflection on secularization as an effect of religious pluralism. The defining event in Joseph Smith’s early life was a visionary experience occasioned by a crisis over religious choice, wherein conversion is refigured as persuasion. Although published more than a decade later, The Book of Mormon stands as a monumental historical interrogation of the conditions that gave rise to this crisis and an archive of narrative and theological strategies for its resolution. Curiously, the book bypasses European church history entirely to recast standard narratives of secularization—such as those proposed by Charles Taylor and Peter Berger—in distinctly New World terms. Throughout this counterhistory, The Book of Mormon attempts to reconcile tacit commitments to religious choice and an egalitarian attitude toward divine revelation with the need for an orthodox center. It ultimately discovers a resolution not in theology but in narratology.
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Lloyd, Vincent. "Hegel, Blackness, Sovereignty." In Nothing Absolute, 174–87. Fordham University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823290161.003.0010.

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Hegel places sub-Saharan Africa outside the path of world history, and he suggests that Africans have no chance at realizing their humanity or flourishing in community. His paradigm African political sovereign has religious authority because she is god-like; indeed, she sacrifices her son and consumes him in what seems like a parody of Christian communion. Instead of earthly sovereign mirroring divine sovereign, the earthly sovereign becomes divine through self-assertion and through severing her affective and familial ties to all other humans. While Hegel represents this as a world where humans and animals are indistinct, he also represents it as Eden-like, prefiguring the full realization of world spirit. This chapter explores Hegel’s account of African sovereignty and its entanglement with his account of European sovereignty. Ultimately, it argues that Hegel’s philosophical method offers an unrealized potential for a political theology that takes Africa, and Blackness, seriously.
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