Interdisciplinary and Religio-Cultural Discourses on a Spirit-Filled World: Loosing the Spirits

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
On Binding, and Loosing, the Spirits: Navigating and Engaging a Spirit-Filled World....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
A Stubborn Missionary, a Slave Girl, and a Scholar: The Ambiguity of Inspiration in the Book of Acts....Pages 15-27
Spirit(s) in Contemporary Christian Theology: An Interim Report of the Unbinding of Pneumatology....Pages 29-40
Spirit and Spirits in African Religious Traditions....Pages 41-53
Spirit and Spirits in Pantheistic Shintoism: A Critical Dialogue with Christian Panentheism....Pages 55-68
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Chaos or Completion: The Work of Spirits in History....Pages 71-83
Art and the Spiritual....Pages 85-96
 Pneumakinesis and Stephen King: “Rebooting” the Discussion on Paranormal Fear....Pages 97-110
Angels and Pentecostals: An Empirical Investigation into Grassroots Opinions on Angels among Assemblies of God, UK Members....Pages 111-122
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Spirits of the Political: Theological Engagement in the Public Sphere....Pages 125-139
Spirits and Economics....Pages 141-153
Talking Back, Acting Up: Wrestling with Spirits in Social Bodies....Pages 155-169
Demonization, Discernment, and Deliverance in Interreligious Encounters....Pages 171-184
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
The Spirit in Evolution and in Nature....Pages 187-196
Christian Animism, Green Spirit Theology, and the Global Crisis today....Pages 197-211
Spirits and the Stars: A Spirit-Filled Cosmology....Pages 213-226
Vector Fields as the Empirical Correlate of the Spirit(s): A Meta-Pannenbergian Approach to Pneumatological Pluralism....Pages 227-242
Conclusion: The Holy Spirit in a Spirit-filled World: Broadening the Dialogue Partners of Christian Theology....Pages 243-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-262