Rise Up and Walk: Psychology, Comparative Theology, and the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion
This article provides a review and assessment of the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion (2014) as a resource for the emerging discipline of comparative theology and, in particular, Hindu-Christian studies. Co-editor Lewis Rambo has highlighted the importance of this volume as an example of a ne...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science Business Media B. V.
[2018]
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Pastoral psychology
Year: 2018, Volume: 67, Issue: 2, Pages: 205-213 |
Review of: | The Oxford handbook of religious conversion (Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2014) (Locklin, Reid B.)
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RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AX Inter-religious relations BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations |
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Comparative Theology
B Book review B Advaita Vedānta B Hinduism B Christianity B Conversion |
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Summary: | This article provides a review and assessment of the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion (2014) as a resource for the emerging discipline of comparative theology and, in particular, Hindu-Christian studies. Co-editor Lewis Rambo has highlighted the importance of this volume as an example of a new multi-disciplinary approach to the psychology of religion, one that incorporates the insights of theological studies along with phenomenology of religion, history of religions, and other disciplines. In the vision of the Handbook, however, theology would seem to remain an object of inquiry, as its norms and patterns inform a broader, integrative, social scientific project. The article argues that theology can emerge as a subject as well as an object, opening at least the possibility of a deepened, renewed, and truly constructive comparative inquiry into the phenomenon of religious conversion. |
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ISSN: | 1573-6679 |
Reference: | Kritik in "Responses to Presentations at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting Forum on the Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion (2018)"
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Contains: | Enthalten in: Pastoral psychology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11089-016-0710-8 |