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Religion as metaphor for ethno-ethical identity /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jesudasan, Ignatius
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Milwaukee : Marquette University Press, [2011]
Series:	Marquette studies in theology ; no. 77.
Subjects:	Ethnicity > Religious aspects. Race relations > Religious aspects. Identification (Religion) Metaphor > Religious aspects > Christianity.

Table of Contents:

Metaphor, truth, mystery & mystification
The ethical factor of ethnic faith
Ethnic faith as a metaphorical construct
Faiths as mutually deconstructive metaphors
Religions as ethnic identity-defining metaphors
God, angels & devil as metaphors of Semitic societies
Basic metaphors of non-Semitic societies
Adamic myth as allegorized Israelite history
The Gospel metaphor versus the Adamic Israelite
The metaphor and mystery of Christmas
Mary's virginity as metaphor of Christian ethnicity
Easter & baptism as Adwaitic Christian metaphors
Church-constructive metaphors of Peter and Paul
Adwaitic metaphorical reading of the Nicene creed
Acts shows metaphors making new identities
From ethnic ethics & theology to global praxis.