Fordham University Press Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies (Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia)

Religion, Emotion, Sensation asks what affect theory has to say about God or gods, religion or religions, scriptures, theologies, and liturgies. Contributors explore the crossings and crisscrossings between affect theory and theology and the study of religion more broadly, as well as the political and social import of such work. Bringing together affect theorists, theologians, biblical scholars, and scholars of religion, this volume enacts creative transdisciplinary interventions in the study of affect and religion through exploring such topics as biblical literature, Christology, animism, Rastafarianism, the women's Mosque Movement, the unending Korean War, the Sewol ferry disaster, trans and gender queer identities, YA fiction, queer historiography, the prison industrial complex, debt and neoliberalism, and death and poetry. Contributors: Mathew Arthur, Amy Hollywood, Wonhee Anne Joh, Dong Sung Kim, A. Paige Rawson, Erin Runions, Donovan O. Schaefer, Gregory J. Seigworth, Max Thornton, Alexis G. Waller Review Bringing together affect theorists, theologians, biblical scholars, and scholars of religion, the essays take up topics as various as biblical literature, Christology, animism, Rastafarianism, the women's Mosque Movement, the unending Korean War, trans and gender queer identities, YA fiction, queer historiography, the prison industrial complex, debt, and neoliberalism.-- "Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology" Religion, Emotion, Sensation responds to the urgent needs of our times with a collection of brilliant essays that place affect theories and religious studies in critical intimacy with prisons, debt, national mourning, ecology and more. The introduction by editors Karen Bray and Stephen D. Moore masterfully frames this moving and inspiring collection. ---Patricia Ticineto Clough, Ph.D., The User Unconscious, Affect, Media, Measure, About the Author Karen Bray is Assistant Professor and Chair of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Wesleyan College. She is co-editor (with Stephen D. Moore) of Religion, Emotion, Sensation: Affect Theories and Theologies, also published by Fordham University Press. Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies at the Theological School, Drew University. Mathew Arthur is an information designer and community education activist in Vancouver, Canada. He is co-editor in chief of Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry, and he co-organized the 2018 conference, Capacious: Affect Inquiry/Making Space. He recently lectured on anticolonial approaches to affect studies at the Affective Societies’ “Power of Immersion” Spring School, Freie Universität, Berlin. Amy Hollywood is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), which received the Otto Gründler Prize for the best book in medieval studies from the International Congress of Medieval Studies; Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History (University of Chicago Press, 2002); and Acute Melancholia and Other Essays (Columbia University Press, 2016). She is the co-editor, with Patricia Beckman, of The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism (2012). She is currently completing, with Constance Furey and Sarah Hammerschlag, Don’t Touch Me: Essays on Difficulty and Faith. Wonhee Anne Joh is a professor of theology and culture at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. She is also the director of the Asian American Ministry Center as well as an associate faculty affiliate in the Departments of Religious Studies and Asian American Studies at Northwestern University. Her publications include Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology (Westminster John Knox Press, 2006); Critical Theology against US Militarism in Asia: Decolonization and Deimperialization (co