Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms

by Mary-Jane Rubenstein

Book Overview

Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate "materiaphobically." Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world "He" created. Like all other human, social, and natural sciences, religious studies imported these theological dualisms into a purportedly secular modernity, mapping...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082327621X
• ISBN13: 9780823276219
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 8.9"