Alternative Salvations

Introduction

PART I: Contemporary Salvation Narratives
1. Only We Can Save Ourselves: An Atheist 'Salvation', Thomas J. Coleman (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA) and Robert B. Arrowood (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA)
2. Reflections on the Language of Salvation in Twelve Step Recovery, Wendy Dossett (University of Chester, UK)
3. Public Policy Dialogue as a Salvation Practice for Women and Youth living with HIV in Kenya, Irene Ayallo (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
4. Dieting for Salvation: Becoming God by Weighing Less? Hannah Bacon (University of Chester, UK)
5. Spontaneous Transcendent and Transformative Experiences in Everyday Life, Madeleine Castro (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK)
6. Timothy Leary and Alternative Salvation, William Stephenson (University of Chester, UK)
7. Religious Doctrines in Group Discussions on Ideas of the Afterlife: What Do You Think Comes after Death? Kornelia Sammet (Universit¤t Leipzig, Germany)
8. Salvation, Death and Nature as Grace, Douglas Davies (University of Durham, UK)

PART II: Re-Reading Traditions
10. Whose Salvation? A Very Particular Christian Question, Jenny Daggers (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
11. âUnlock Paradise with your own Bloodâ: Martyrdom and Salvation in Christianity and Islam, Paul Middleton (University of Chester, UK)
12. Christian Salvations in a Multi-Faith World: Challenging the âCult of Normalcyâ, Wayne Morris (University of Chester, UK)
13. Gendered Constructions: Overcoming the Binaries, Emily Pennington (University of Chester, UK)
14. Animals and Universal Redemption: All Dogs Go to Heaven, Kris Hiuser (University of Chester, UK)
15. Teaching Practical Theology for Flourishing, Katja Stuerzenhofecker (University of Manchester, UK)
16. A Muslim Argument for Universal Salvation, Jon Hoover (University of Nottingham, UK)
17. Signs of Salvation: Insecurity, Risk and the End of teh World in Late Modernity, Steve Knowles (University of Chester, UK)
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