Resounding Transcendence

This wide-ranging and significant collection welcomes within its pages a diversity of material that both opens up new interdisciplinary perspectives and, at moments, skirts on the edges of coherence. Oxford University Press describes the volume as ‘theoretically ambitious’, and the introduction by the two co-editors certainly lives up to this depiction. Indeed, such a wide range of themes is included within this introductory section that it can take a little time to figure out which of these truly guide the collection as a whole. Within the space of twenty-five pages, the editors cover such themes as sacred metaphysics, sounding and resonance, histories and processes of transcendence, immanence and secularity, voice, ritual transition, postcolonialism, postsecularity, conversion, healing, soteriology, indigenization, inculturation, and globalization, among others. The same goes for the content of the chapters themselves, as the book often moves between diverse religious expressions and geographical locations faster than it is possible totally to orient oneself in any particular tradition.

Art · Art history · Depiction · Immanence · Literature · Postcolonialism (international relations) · Section (typography) · Secularity · Sociology · Soteriology · Theology · Transcendence (philosophy) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies