Springer Religion in Motion: Rethinking Religion, Knowledge and Discourse in a Globalizing World

This volume offers innovative approaches to the study of religion. It brings together junior and senior scholars from the Global North and South. The contributors also explore the context-specific formations of religion and religious knowledge production in an increasingly instable and incalculable, globalized world. In the spirit of the challenging slogan, “Religion in Motion. Rethinking Religion, Knowledge and Discourse in a Globalizing World,” the book bundles voices from a great variety of cultural and academic backgrounds. It offers readers a cross-continental exchange of innovative approaches in the study of religion. Coverage intersects religion, gender, economics, and politics. In addition, it de-centers European perspectives and brings in perspectives from the Global South. Chapters examine such topics as feminine power and agency in the Ilê Axé Oxum Abalô, queering the Trinity, and faith and professionalism in humanitarian encounters in post-earthquake Haiti. Coverage also explores notions of development in African initiated churches and their implications for development policy, the study of religion as the study of discourse construction, rethinking the religion/secularism binary in world politics, and more. This book will appeal to students and researchers with an interest in Religion and Society, Philosophy and Religion, and Religion and Gender. From the Back Cover This volume explores the context-specific formations of religion and religious knowledge production in an increasingly unstable and incalculable globalized world. In the spirit of the challenging slogan, “Religion in Motion. Rethinking Religion, Knowledge and Discourse in a Globalizing World,” the book bundles voices from a great variety of cultural and academic backgrounds. It offers readers a cross-continental exchange of innovative approaches in the study of religion. Coverage intersects religion, gender, economics, and politics. In addition, it de-centers European perspectives and brings in perspectives from the Global South.Chapters examine such topics as feminine power and agency in the Ilê Axé Oxum Abalô, queering the Trinity, and faith and professionalism in humanitarian encounters in post-earthquake Haiti. Coverage also explores notions of development in African initiated churches and their implications for development policy, the study of religion as the study of discourse construction, rethinking the religion/secularism binary in world politics, and more. This book will appeal to students and researchers with an interest in Religion and Society, Philosophy and Religion, and Religion and Gender. About the Author Julian Hensold is a PhD candidate at the Theological Faculty of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He studied Protestant Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg and Yale University in New Haven. In 2013 Julian completed his studies with the 1.Theol. Examen at ELKB (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria). His research interests include theories about religion, classical and contemporary concepts of subjectivity and subjectivation, theories of cultural practice and performativity, post-Kantian Idealist philosophies of religion (mainly Hegel and late Natorp), liberal theological thought as well as practical-theological questions concerning an actualization of Christian religious practice in the 21th century. In his dissertation project Julian focuses on a problem-oriented re-explication of Hegel’s philosophy of religion concerned with the question of how to adequately understand and justify religious practice in a (late-)modern setting of subjectivation.  Jordan Kynes is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and holds an M.A. in Religion and Culture from the same university. His main areas of interest are the History of Ideas and Sociology of Knowledge, with a special