Christian Temporalities: Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed (2024) (Contemporary Anthropology of Religion)

By: Anna-Karina Hermkens and Simon Coleman and Matt Tomlinson

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Synopsis: This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human time. Beyond conventional discussions around breaks with the past in Christian conversion and future ruptures announced in prophecy, the volume reveals previously unexplored ways in which Christians work with concepts of time and its articulation with divinity, subjectivity, agency, and personal, social, and political change. By developing Coleman’s argument about “historiopraxy” in novel directions, contributors provide new understandings of religious temporalities and the ritual articulation of immanence and transcendence. While building upon previous scholarly work in the anthropology of Christianity, this volume pushes the debate further and provides original insights into how religion is mobilised to shape and transform people's pasts, presents and futures.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9783031596834
Related ISBNs:: 9783031596827
Publisher:: Springer Nature Switzerland
Date of Addition:: 07/04/24
Copyrighted By:: The Editor
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Anna-Karina Hermkens
Edited by:: Simon Coleman
Edited by:: Matt Tomlinson