Alternative Salvations

Hannah Bacon is Deputy Head of Theology and Religious Studies and Senior Lecturer in Feminist and Contextual Theology at the University of Chester, UK.Wendy Dossett is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Chester, UK.Steve Knowles is Senior Lecturer in Religion and Popular Culture at the University of Chester, UK.

• Introduction PART I: Contemporary Salvation Narratives1. 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 (Universität Leipzig, Germany) 8. Salvation, Death and Nature as Grace, Douglas Davies (University of Durham, UK)PART II: Re-Reading Traditions10. Whose Salvation? A Very Particular Christian Question, Jenny Daggers (Liverpool Hope University, UK)11. ‘Unlock Paradise with your own Blood’: Martyrdom and Salvation in Christianity and Islam, Paul Middleton (University of Chester, UK)12. Christian Salvations in a Multi-Faith World: Challenging the “Cult of Normalcy”, 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)Bibliography Index

Each author provides detailed examples which ... remain comprehensive enough for readers outside each author’s area of expertise ... Alternative Salvations challenges the static orthodox Christian notions of salvation, both in the past and present, through the exploration of alternative theologies and lived experiences.