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Religious Experience and New MaterialismOrganizing Bodies

Religious Experience and New Materialism: Organizing Bodies [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 expansionism, social exclusion, and religious conflict. Even when the pursuit of religious conversion explicitly rejects violent means of coercion, conversion has often carried with it the implicit submission to dominant cultural, political, and economic systems.’ The experience of conversion in this manner facilitates the expansion of cultural structures including language, gender, race, ethnicity, political orders, and economic systems.2 Yet, conversion remains significant to religious identity and the ability to respond to the colonial history of religious conversion requires conversions that resist material, cultural, and political domination. Religious studies and theology need new ways of conceptualizing conversion that are responsive to the material, cultural, and political dimensions of conversion and attend to forms of religious conversion that resist domination.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Religious Experience and New MaterialismOrganizing Bodies

Part of the Radical Theologies Book Series
Editors: Rieger, Joerg; Waggoner, Edward
Minister, Kevin
Religious Experience and New Materialism — Dec 29, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
ISBN
978-1-349-57108-6
Pages
55 –81
DOI
10.1007/978-1-137-56844-1_3
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Abstract

[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 expansionism, social exclusion, and religious conflict. Even when the pursuit of religious conversion explicitly rejects violent means of coercion, conversion has often carried with it the implicit submission to dominant cultural, political, and economic systems.’ The experience of conversion in this manner facilitates the expansion of cultural structures including language, gender, race, ethnicity, political orders, and economic systems.2 Yet, conversion remains significant to religious identity and the ability to respond to the colonial history of religious conversion requires conversions that resist material, cultural, and political domination. Religious studies and theology need new ways of conceptualizing conversion that are responsive to the material, cultural, and political dimensions of conversion and attend to forms of religious conversion that resist domination.]

Published: Dec 29, 2015

Keywords: Religious Tradition; Religious Community; Religious Experience; Religious Involvement; Religious Identity

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