Modern Believing
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in Modern Believing Jan 2010 • previous edition • next edition
Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age
C. Deacy and E. Arweck (eds.)
Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publising, 2009. Pp. xiv, 260. Hb.
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Reviewed by Martyn Percy, Ripon College Cuddesdon and the Oxford Ministry Course
The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality
Suzanne Owen
London: Continuum, 2009. Pp. viii, 204. Hb.
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Reviewed by Ian Corbett, Clevedon
Moved by Mary: The Power of Pilgrimage in the Modern World
A.-K. Hermkens, W. Jansen, C. Notermans (eds.)
Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publising, 2009. Pp. xiv, 267. Pb.
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Reviewed by Geri Parlby, Roehampton University
By One Spirit: Reconciliation and Renewal in Anglican Life
Lorraine Cavanagh
Bern: Peter Lang, 2009. Pp. xii, 273. Pb.
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Reviewed by John Rees, Oxford
Publisher's description: This is a brave book, full of hope and pervaded by the promise that insights from the Anglican past might yet carry us through the tumults of the Anglican present. Lorraine Cavanagh is chaplain at the University of Wales in Cardiff, and teaches at St Michael's College, Llandaff. She notes the 'participatory' element in Richard Hooker's teaching, and emphasises that Hooker 'takes tradition into the dynamic which informs history. This dynamic is the life of God manifested in Jesus Christ in whose ongoing life the Church is sacramentally transformed and in which it finds its true vocation.
In the Beginning is the Icon: A Liberative Theology of Images, Visual Arts and Culture
Sigurd Bergmann, trans. A. K. Angelsen
London: Equinox, 2009. Pp. xviii, 173. Hb.
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Reviewed by Jenny Gaffin, Parkstone, Dorset