Interdisciplinary and Religio-Cultural Discourses on a Spirit-Filled World: Loosing the Spirits

Introduction: On Binding, amd Loosing, the Spirits: Navigating amd Engaging a Spirit-Filled World; Amos Yong PART I: SPIRITS IN THEOLOGY AND RELIGION 1. The Spirit-world of the Bible: The Ambiguity of Inspiration and the Discernment the Spirits in Biblical and Early Jewish Traditions; John R. Levison 2. Spirit and Spirits in Christian Theological Traditions; Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen 3. Speaking to the Wind: Spirits in African Traditional Religion; J. Kwabena Asamaoh-Gyadu 4. Spirits and Shintoism; Naoki Inoue PART II: THE SPIRITS OF HISTORY AND CULTURE 5. Spirits in History; Patrick Oden 6. A Pluralistic Pneumatology of the Arts; Robert K. Johnston 7. Pneuma-kinesis and Stephen King: Beyond Psychokinetics in Parapsychology; Donnie W. Staggs 8. Zeitgeist: Spirit and Spirits in Postmodern Life; Emma Ineson PART III: THE SPIRITS OF THE POLIS 9. Spirits of the Political; Sebastian Kim 10. Spirits and Economics; Nimi Wariboko 11. Talking Back, Acting Up: Wrestling with Spirits in Social Bodies; Bradford E. Hinze 12. Driving Out Demons? Looking at Spirits in Inter-religious Encounter thru the Lens of Deliverance Ministry and Theology; Tony Richie PART IV: THE SPIRITS OF NATURE AND THE COSMOS 13. The Spirit in Evolution and Nature; Philip Clayton 14. Green and Chiological Pneumatologies: Nature, Ch'i, and Spirit; Koo Dong Yun 15. Christian Animism, Green Spirit Theology, and the Global Crisis today; Mark I. Wallace 16. Vector Fields as the Spirit's Empirical Correlate: The Ubiquity of the Work of the Holy Spirit and the Logos; Erwin Morales 17. Spirits and the Stars: A Spirit-Filled Cosmology?; David Bradnick Conclusion: The Holy Spirit in a Spirit-filled World; Kirsteen Kim