TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jesudasan,Ignatius
AU  - Schale,Carsten Palmer
TI  - Religion as metaphor for ethno-ethical identity
T2  - Marquette studies in theology
SN  - 978-0-8746-2793-0
U1  - 200.89 23E
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
PB  - Marquette University Press
KW  - Ethnicity--Religious aspects
KW  - Race relations--Religious aspects
KW  - Identification (Religion)
KW  - Metaphor--Religious aspects--Christianity
N1  - Notes bibliogr; 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
ER  -