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Religious Experience and New Materialism

Part of the Radical Theologies Book Series

Editors: Rieger, Joerg; Waggoner, Edward

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-56844-1

ISBN: 978-1-349-57108-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 29, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Jones, Tamsin

Pages: 1 –23

[The application of new materialism—its methods, assumptions, and aims—to the study of religion is part of a larger “material turn” in the field. The precise elements of this turn might vary according to who is detailing them; however, all would agree that it involves, at least in large part, a...
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Chapter 2Becoming a Bodily Self

LaMothe, Kimerer L.

Pages: 25 –53

[In dance techniques across styles and genres, including western forms of ballet, jazz, and modern, dancers rely on a similar sequence of movements in order to launch their bodily selves off the ground and then safely, gracefully, land again. The sequence consists of several running steps...
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Chapter 3Organizing Bodies

Minister, Kevin

Pages: 55 –81

[For many religious traditions, “conversion” names a foundational religious experience, definitive of what it means to be part of the religious tradition. However, discussions of religious conversion have fallen on hard times as a result of the association of conversion with colonial...
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Chapter 4Ecology and Social Movements

Crockett, Clayton; Reader, John

Pages: 83 –103

[This chapter addresses some theoretical and practical issues concerning how social and religious movements might address urgent environmental concerns. Specifically, we advocate a confluence between what has been called the New Materialism and a more specifically Christian movement, Relational...
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Chapter 5Becoming Feces

Bray, Karen

Pages: 105 –133

[“Pure energy is being itself, which is an absolute materialism, materialism degree zero. But energy plus one, plus two, and so on is material complexity, a folding of being on itself. It is becoming thought, becoming time-image, becoming a brain.”1 These words help to conclude the chapter “Being...
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Chapter 6Rethinking the New Materialism for Religion and Theology

Rieger, Joerg

Pages: 135 –156

[The matters of religion and religious experience are made up of multiple components. In the study of religion, and even in some theological approaches, it is increasingly becoming clear that religious experience is never merely a matter of ideas and doctrines, nor is it merely a matter of...
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Chapter 7Response

Robbins, Jeffrey W.

Pages: 157 –171

[The New Materialism has a counter-intuitive relationship with religion. This is due to both the old materialist, overtly critical attitude toward religion, as well as the continuing religious and spiritual concerns with the misplaced materialistic values associated with consumer capitalism. For...
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Chapter 8Conclusion

Waggoner, Edward

Pages: 173 –181

[This collection of essays is noteworthy in two respects. It is the first volume from religious studies scholars and theologians who critically appropriate tenets from “New Materialism” to argue constructive proposals about religious experience and socio-political movements. What LaMothe,...

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