Reimagining Religious Imagination, in Theory and in Practice

Authors

  • Adrian Ivakhiv University of Vermont Environmental Program

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.41390

Keywords:

Review essay

Abstract

Jack Miles, Religion as We Know It: An Origin Story (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2020).

T.M. Luhrmann, How God Becomes Real: Kindling the Presence of Invisible Others (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020).

David Morgan, Images at Work: The Material Culture of Enchantment (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, The Life of Imagination: Revealing and Making the World (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

Jeffrey J. Kripal, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge (New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2019).

Jeffrey J. Kripal, Secret Body: Erotic and Esoteric Currents in the History of Religions (University of Chicago Press, 2017).

Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018).

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Published

2021-11-08

How to Cite

Ivakhiv, A. . (2021). Reimagining Religious Imagination, in Theory and in Practice. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 15(3), 390-408. https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.41390