Religious Experience and New Materialism Movement Matters [Hardcover]

In this groundbreaking volume, theologians and scholars of religion criticize and refine new materialist views, to advance debate about the role of religious experience in social and political change.Introduction; Tamsin Jones
1. 'Becoming a Bodily Self: An Econkinetic Approach to the Study of Religion'; Kimerer L. LaMothe
2. 'Organizing Conversions: Theorizing the Religious Experience of Conversion with New Materialisms'; Kevin Minister
3. 'Ecology and Social Movements: The New Materialism and Relational Christian Realism'; Clayton Crockett and John Reader
4. 'Becoming Feces: New Materialism and the Deep Solidarity in Feeling Like Shit'; Karen Bray
5. 'Rethinking the New Materialism for Religion and Theology: Why Movements Matter Most'; Joerg Rieger
Response: 'On the Virtue and Variety of Movement'; Jeffrey W. Robbins
Conclusion; Edward Waggoner

'From its birth, New Materialism has fostered intense attention and debate: is it materialist, is it new, can it produce a more radical theology? Here, chapters lock horns over the heart and bodies of the New Materialist program, emphasizing the topics of religion and activism. The authors, undercutting established dualisms, offer both advocacy and critical dialogue. This is an important contribution to this new school of thought.' - Philip Clayton, Claremont School of Theology, USA

Karen Bray, Drew University, USAClayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas, USATamsin Jones, Trinity College, USAKimerer L. LaMothe, Brown University and Harvard University, USA (emeritus)Kevin Minister, College of Arts and Sciences at Shenandoah University, USAJohn Reader, University of Chester, UKJeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College, USA