{"product_id":"9781350039506-alternative-salvations","title":"Alternative Salvations","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEngaging the Sacred and the Secular\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy considering transformative ideas and experiences which are explicitly articulated or implicitly structured in languages of religion and spirituality, \u003ci\u003eAlternative Salvations\u003c\/i\u003e probes concepts including 'religious', 'secular', 'spiritual', 'post-Christian', and 'post-secular', providing a series of studies which question the functionality of these broad categories. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part one draws on contemporary salvation narratives showing how current cultural forms, social practices and secular discourses are influenced by, or are interpreted through, the lens of religious and theological accounts of salvation. Examples include twelve step recovery programs, drug culture, and public policy surrounding HIV-AIDs in Kenya. Although outside traditional religious contexts, the contributors show ways in which they are not free from religious symbolism. Part two explores alternative accounts of salvation rooted in religious traditions. Established orthodoxies are confronted by contemporary critical questions, for example about gender, the status of animals, and the political dimensions of salvation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e By contributing new perspectives and unique case studies, \u003ci\u003eAlternative Salvations\u003c\/i\u003e provides a deliberate challenge to easy binaries which often underpin contemporary and traditional discourses of salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41106241781857,"sku":"9781350039506","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/stand_17115900_jpg.jpg?v=1705909215","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781350039506-alternative-salvations","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}