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

This volume presents interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious approaches directed toward the articulation of a pneumatological theology in its broadest sense, especially in terms of attempting to conceive of a spirit-filled world. 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 This volume presents interdisciplinary, intercultural, and interreligious approaches exploring a pneumatological theology in its broadest sense, especially in attempting to conceive of a spirit-filled world. The authors seek to discern the spiritual dimensions in the wider domains of the history, culture, the polis, the cosmos, sciences, and religions. The essays are driven by an intuition: that pneumatological sensibilities, categories, and insights can both inform the construction of a more robust doctrine of the person and work of the Holy Spirit in the world and enable the appreciation that we inhabit what can rightly be called a Spirit- and spirit-filled world