Books in the Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series series

Provides a sociological account of contemporary religious phenomena such as channelling, holistic healing, meditation and divination, which are usually classed as part of a New Age Movement. This work criticises the view that such phenomena represent spirituality in which self-authority is paramount.

Constructing a Christology which centres on a Christ of the vulnerable and the margins, this book explores the interface between religion, law, politics and violence, East and West, North and South. The history of the use of sacred texts as 'texts of terror' is examined, and theological links to legal and political dimensions explored.

Discussing Christian language, this volume looks at how sociology has been appropriated for the purposes of the Church's widespread ideology, the idea that Christianity contains its own sociology and the effects of various political, aesthetic and secular tensions, among other subjects.