Each author provides detailed examples which ... remain comprehensive enough for readers outside each author's area of expertise ... Alternative Salvations challenges the static orthodox Christian notions of salvation, both in the past and present, through the exploration of alternative theologies and lived experiences.
Theology
The chapters, which are relatively short but packed with content, in Alternative Salvations ... Read moreoffer specific challenges to the black and white dogmas that so easily dominate religious thinking and belief.
Regent's Reviews
This diverse and expansive volume makes clear that constructions of salvation are far from monolithic, either within Christian contexts or beyond. 'Salvation' is shown to be an unstable yet deeply generative narrative device, communicating interactions with a range of human, animal and divine others.
Susannah Cornwall, Department of Theology and Religion, University of Exeter, UK More than any other recent volume, Alternative Salvations challenges and expands the concept of `salvation,' ultimately proposing `alternative salvations' as a comparative category that can both disturb hegemonic and essentialist interpretations of salvation within traditions and illumine diverse religious exempla within and beyond conventional religion. Drawing on case studies of Christian and Muslim traditions as well as secular and post-Christian contexts, the volume eruditely troubles conventional binaries between the religious and secular and will be of tremendous interest to scholars of both theology and religious studies as well as general readers.
Aaron S. Gross, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Diego, USA Show Less