Experiencing God in Everything and Nothingness: Negativity, Embodiment, and Spirituality--South African Perspectives
Annette Potgieter · Khegan M. Delport
May 2024 · Wipf and Stock Publishers
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COVID-19 has impacted the way we see the world and the way we view spirituality; in times of crisis, people turn or return to religion or spirituality. Most of the South African population identifies as Christian. This brings to the fore what is meant by “spirituality” in a country crippled by the remains of apartheid structure, rampant corruption, poverty, and various systemic problems. Overall, there is a lack of scholarship investigating “spirituality” and “spirituality studies” from the global South. This book aims to bridge the gap. New avenues are investigated of thinking about God in difficult circumstances, as ideologies of hope and prosperity are reshaped. This book links text and context, spirituality and material culture, self and society, the analogue and the digital, contemplation and action, saying and unsaying; in short, the question of experiencing God in both everything and nothingness comes under the scope of this book.
About the author
Annette Potgieter is a senior lecturer in New Testament and related literature at the University of Pretoria. She is the author of Contested Body: Metaphors of Dominion in Romans 5-8 (2020) and the editor of Resilience in a VUCA World: Reflections on Teaching, Learning and Health in Turbulent Times (2022). She completed her doctorate in theology at Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin (2019). Khegan M. Delport is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pretoria and a lecturer at Huguenot College. He is also an incoming postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung at the Otto-Friedrich-Universitat Bamberg, and the author of On Tragedy and Transcendence: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Donald MacKinnon and Rowan Williams (2021).
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