Download PDF: RV Conklin-Miller, For Life Abundant Edited by Dorothy C. Bass and Craig Dykstra. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2008. 212 pages. $30.00. Against assumptions that a book about “practical theology” could only be concerned with issues of internal
Download PDF: RV Lewis, Creative Exchange By Victor Anderson. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress. 190 pages. $23.00. At the core of Creative Exchange is the invitation for African Americans to embrace a kind of self expression and theologizing that, although finite, is far
Download PDF: Senior and Mehta, Editorial Essay Practical Matters hosts an emerging and constructive conversation among many partners about religious practices and practical theology. Conversations hosted in this journal include practitioners and academicians who represent a variety of religious traditions,
Download PDF: Stoltz, Reimaining Eve ABSTRACT These two quilts were created to provide a fresh look at the story of Adam and Eve by forcing the viewer to return to the text and rethink the traditional interpretations that have dominated
Download PDF: Selby, Imagining Antarctica ABSTRACT A ten-day expedition to Antarctica provides the context for exploring imagination as a creative and iterative process that transforms our perceptions of things seen and unseen. Supplemented by photographs, the essay describes how encounters
Download PDF: Gelberg, Camera Lens as Third-Eye An Introduction I was, for many years, a Hindu monk, and my tradition taught me to turn my eyes away from the pseudo-reality of the manifest world and seek disembodied transcendence and liberation.
Download PDF: Wegner, The Role of Improvisation ABSTRACT Our bodies play an essential role in our thinking and learning. However, the educational system we inherited from the scientific paradigm was designed to limit the body’s interaction in learning. In fact,
Download PDF: Shively, Cultivating Imagination Introduction Many years ago I bought a Shaker rocking chair kit. I took a list of parts out of the box that helped me identify the materials I had to work with—wood to build the
Download PDF: Neville, Monastic Imagination Medieval historian Jacques Le Goff has observed that to “study the imagination of a society is to go to the heart of its consciousness and historical evolution. It is to go to the origin and
Download PDF: Barnard, Stepping Across Boundaries Learn more at the Council for Affordable Health Insurance During the past two decades, in an effort to create a context in which my students might have the opportunity to touch, and to be
Download PDF: Roberts, Neither Bhukti nor Mukti ABSTRACT This essay argues that religious practices of imagination can answer Hans Urs von Balthasar’s call for the development of a “new sensorium” for experiencing the divine. For him, a theological aesthetics
Download PDF: Stephenson, Luther’s Wedding ABSTRACT Since 1994, the city of Wittenberg, in what was formerly the German Democratic Republic, has hosted an annual “Luther’s Wedding” festival. This carnivalesque city festival represents and actualizes the city’s imagination of itself, and
Download PDF: Rogers, Learning and Living the Story ABSTRACT Grounded in an extended example of an African-American Church that uses stories and drama to educate its youth about their cultural and religious heritage, this article describes how narrative can nurture
Download PDF: Pape, Narrating Congregational Life ABSTRACT Religious imagination, defined as the human capacity for “seeing as,” is suggested as the “field of action” for biblical preaching. The essay explores some implications of this understanding, with special focus on typology as
Download PDF: Devarajan and Kamath, Victory of a Dream ABSTRACT This article is a presentation of ethnographic data about Swapna Vijayam, a classical Indian dance ballet choreographed by dancer Sasikala Penumarthi in the Kuchipudi style. Staged in Atlanta, GA in December 2007, Swapna
From Tuesday, June 24 through Saturday, June 28, 2008, monks from Drepung Loseling Monastery in Atlanta created a Manjushri (Buddha of Wisdom) mandala in the atrium of the Emory University Math/Science Center during the International Association of Buddhist Studies (IABS) congress. Making a
This interview brings together a daughter and father, a prominent musician and a distinguished liturgical theologian: Emily Saliers is part of the musical duo Indigo Girls, Don Saliers is William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship, Emeritus. Feature Image in
Dr. William Vendley is the Secretary General of Religions for Peace International. He is a member of its World Council which consists of 60 senior religious leaders from all continents. He coordinates the activities and projects of Religions for Peace’s