Experiencing God in Everything and Nothingness
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Experiencing God in Everything and Nothingness

Negativity, Embodiment, and Spirituality—South African Perspectives

  1. 238 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Experiencing God in Everything and Nothingness

Negativity, Embodiment, and Spirituality—South African Perspectives

About this book

COVID-19 has impacted the way we see the world and the way we view spirituality; in times of crisis, people turn or return to religion or spirituality. Most of the South African population identifies as Christian. This brings to the fore what is meant by "spirituality" in a country crippled by the remains of apartheid structure, rampant corruption, poverty, and various systemic problems. Overall, there is a lack of scholarship investigating "spirituality" and "spirituality studies" from the global South. This book aims to bridge the gap. New avenues are investigated of thinking about God in difficult circumstances, as ideologies of hope and prosperity are reshaped. This book links text and context, spirituality and material culture, self and society, the analogue and the digital, contemplation and action, saying and unsaying; in short, the question of experiencing God in both everything and nothingness comes under the scope of this book.

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Yes, you can access Experiencing God in Everything and Nothingness by Annette Potgieter,Khegan M. Delport in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Theology & Religion & Christian Theology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. List of Contributors
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: Navigating Nothingness
  5. Chapter 2: The Spirituality of Space
  6. Chapter 3: The Attention Assemblage and the Machines of Acedia
  7. Chapter 4: Beyond the Totality of Religion
  8. Chapter 5: “Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow”
  9. Chapter 6: Youth and Environmental Consciousness
  10. Chapter 7: Characterizing Pharaoh’s Self-Destructive Politics alongside the Plagues and Politics of South Africa
  11. Chapter 8: Spirituality, Poverty, and the Problem of Evil in the Book of Qoheleth
  12. Chapter 9: The Tension between Experiences of Nothingness and Hope in the Metaphorical Meaning of the Names of the Children (Isa 7–8) from a Perspective of Generational Imprinted Trauma and Resilience503
  13. Chapter 10: Using Biblical Trauma-Texts to Help Pain-Bearers Find Hope
  14. Chapter 11: Hope in the Midst of Death?
  15. Chapter 12: Bible, Spirituality, and Method