Alternative salvations: engaging the sacred and the secular

by Bacon, Hannah

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Full title :Alternative salvations : engaging the sacred and the secular / edited by Hannah Bacon, Wendy Dossett, and Steve Knowles.

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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Contemporary Salvation Narratives -- 1. Only We Can Save Ourselves: An Atheist's 'Salvation' -- 2. Reflections on the Language of Salvation in Twelve-Step Recovery -- 3. Public Policy Dialogue as a Salvation Practice for Women and Youth Living with HIV in Kenya -- 4. Dieting for Salvation: Becoming God by Weighing Less? -- 5. Spontaneous Transcendent and Transformative Experiences in Everyday Life -- 6. Timothy Leary and Alternative Salvation -- 7. Religious Doctrines in Group Discussions on Ideas of Afterlife: What Do You Think Comes after Death? -- 8. Salvation, Death and Nature as Grace -- Part II: Re-Reading Traditions -- 9. Whose Salvation? A Very Particular Christian Question -- 10. 'Unlock Paradise with your own Blood': Martyrdom and Salvation in Islam and Christianity -- 11. Christian Salvations in a Multi-faith World: Challengingthe Cult of Normalcy -- 12. Gendered Constructions of Salvation: Overcoming the Binaries -- 13. Animals and Universal Redemption: All Dogs Go to Heaven -- 14. Teaching Practical Theology for Flourishing -- 15. A Muslim Conflict over Universal Salvation -- 16. Signs of Salvation: Insecurity, Risk and the End ofthe World in Late Modernity -- Notes -- References -- Index.