Religion in Motion

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Arjun Appadurai and Michael Lambek (Jordan Kynes).- Part 1. Religion, Gender, Body and Aesthetics: Stagnation or Change in the Authority over Religious Knowledge Production (Vanessa Rau).- Chapter 3. Feminine power and agency in the Ile Axe Oxum Abalo (Inga Scharf da Silva).- Chapter 4. Queering the Trinity (Teresa Forcades).- Chapter 5.  Dead or Dying: Jewish Religious Cultures and Brain Death as the Modern Mind-Body Dualism (Sarah Werren).- Chapter 6. Religion, interdependency and the ethics of inhabiting in Jill Soloway's »Transparent« (Stefan Hunglinger).- Chapter 7. Contesting Religion, or: The Impossibility of Secular Singing (Vanessa Rau).- Part 2. Religion and Economics - Interaction of Two Discursive Spheres (Philipp Ohlmann).- Chapter 8. Neoliberal Technologies, Intimacy and the Becoming of the Sacred (Ce line Righi).- Chapter 9. Faith and Professionalism in Humanitarian Encounters in Post-Earthquake Haiti (Andrea Steinke).- Chapter 10. Notions of Development in African Initiated Churches and their Implications for Development Policy (Philipp Ohlmann,  Marie-Luise Frost, Wilhelm Grab).- Part 3. The Praxis of Religion, Theologies and Knowledge Production: Overcoming the Dichotomy between Inside and Outside Perspective(s) on Religion (Julian Hensold, Rosa-Coco Schinagl).- Chapter 11. The Study of Religion as the Study of Discourse Construction (Gerhard van den Heever).- Chapter 12. Beyond a Dichotomy of Perspectives. Understanding Religion on the Base of Paul Natorp's »Logic of Boundary« (Julian Hensold).- Chapter 13. Scientific Spirituality«: The Religion for Global Thought Transformation(Manaswita Singh).- Chapter 14. An Islamic Theology of Culture: Nizari Ismaili Thought in the 21st Century (Mohammad Magout).- Part 4. Religion, Politics and Power - Decentered analyses (Jordan Kynes, Adela Taleb).- Chapter 15. Religious or political - Does it matter at all? The Analysis of a Blessing

Julian Hensold is a PhD candidate at the Theological Faculty of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He studied Protestant Theology, Philosophy and Religious Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität in Heidelberg and Yale University in New Haven. In 2013 Julian completed his studies with the 1.Theol. Examen at ELKB (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria). His research interests include theories about religion, classical and contemporary concepts of subjectivity and subjectivation, theories of cultural practice and performativity, post-Kantian Idealist philosophies of religion (mainly Hegel and late Natorp), liberal theological thought as well as practical-theological questions concerning an actualization of Christian religious practice in the 21th century. In his dissertation project Julian focuses on a problem-oriented re-explication of Hegel's philosophy of religion concerned with the question of how to adequately understand and justify religious practice in a (late-)modern setting of subjectivation. 
Jordan Kynes is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and holds an M.A. in Religion and Culture from the same university. His main areas of interest are the History of Ideas and Sociology of Knowledge, with a special focus on language and translation in the construction of memory, identity, and orientation. His dissertation takes the early works of Moroccan philosopher Mohammed 'Abed al-Jabri as a means of exploring al-Jabri's development of an epistemologically-predicated notion of Arab modernity and its function as a contestation of the prevailing ideological narratives (both internal and external) in the context of Moroccan independence. Philipp Öhlmann heads the Research Programme on Religious Communities and Sustainable Development at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and is a research associate at University of Pretoria. His research focuses onthe effects of religion on economic performance as