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Tables of Contents for Desirable God?
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Introduction
Under the Spell of Images, Idols and New Deities
1
4
(Roger Burggraeve, Johan De Tavernier, Didier Pollefeyt and Jo Hanssens)
PART I WHERE YOUR GOD IS, THERE YOUR DESIRE WILL BE ALSO
5
114
Forms of Religious Idolatry
1. True Faith in God and Forms of Religious Idolatry
7
32
(Roger Burggraeve, Johan De Tavernier, Didier Pollefeyt and Jo Hanssens)
God Is the Only One: Put No One in His Place
10
5
Faith in the One as Source of Violence
15
5
An Utterly Imageless God
20
3
Inaccessible God
23
3
No Religion Without Images
26
5
Religious Idolatry
31
7
Conclusion
38
1
2. The Prohibition of Idolatry: Source of Humanity or Source of Violence?
39
22
Early Jewish and Christian Perspectives on the Prohibition of Images: A Hermeneutic Approach
(Marcel Poorthuis)
The Biblical Prohibition to Make Images
40
1
The Prohibition of Idolatry and Monotheism
41
1
Idolatry as Adultery
42
1
Idolatry as Impurity
45
1
Idolatry in Rabbinic Judaism
47
1
Idols as 'Nothing'
51
1
The Anthropological Turn in the Prohibition of Idolatry
54
1
Beyond Anthropocentrism
57
1
Conclusions
59
2
3. Humans Created and Called in the Image of God
61
34
(Roger Burggraeve)
Created in God's Image and Likeness
61
3
Do Humans Depict God by Means of Their Mode of
Being?
64
4
A Dynamic Image of God
68
5
Christ as Icon of God
73
3
God-Human and Not Human-God
76
3
God's Ethically Qualified Self-Emptying
79
7
An 'Icon' and Not an 'Idol' of God
86
6
Conclusion
92
3
4. Interruptions. Idolatry from the Perspective of 'Political Theology'
95
26
(Jürgen Manemann)
The Challenge of the Theology of Liberation
95
1
Ideology and Idolatry
96
2
The Destruction of Experience
98
2
The Apocalyptical Dimension of the Christian Faith
100
5
The Dialectics of Secularization
105
9
The Anti-Apocalyptical Temptation in Christianity
114
3
Hope For the Sake of the Hopeless
117
2
PART II WHERE YOUR DESIRE IS, THERE YOUR GOD WILL BE ALSO
119
154
Forms of Profane Idolatry
5. Authentic Humanism and Forms of Profane Idolatry
121
38
(Roger Burggraeve, Johan De Tavernier, Didier Pollefeyt and Jo Hanssens)
Idols of the Tribe, the Cave, the Market and the Theatre
122
3
Secular Humanism as Radical Anti-Idolatry
125
4
Forms of Secular Humanism as Human Idolatry
129
3
New Idols After the Death of God
132
4
Fascinated by the Image-Culture
136
4
When the Image Leaves Nothing to the Imagination
140
4
Image-Culture and Stardom
144
4
Between Culture Pessimism and Fanatic Passion
148
2
The Myth of Health
150
2
The Body Between Culture and Cult
152
2
Money, Greed and Globalizing Economy
154
3
Conclusion
157
2
6. Between Idyll and Idol. The Fascination with One's Own Turf and the Violence of Convictions
159
18
(Bart Verbesselt)
How Multicultural Is Our Society?
159
1
The Idyll of One's 'Own' Turf
160
2
The Temptation of Idolization
162
3
Multiculture: a Dynamic Event?
165
1
The New Elite of Mondialization
166
2
Defence of Intolerance
168
2
Beyond the Pacific Ocean
170
2
The Fascination With 'One's Own Turf' and the Violence of Convictions
172
3
Multicultural Coexistence as 'Intercreation'
175
2
7. The Ideology of Genetic Health
177
22
(Kris Dierickx)
Introduction: Genetics in Our Culture
177
3
The Place of Health in Our Culture
180
3
Genetic Health and 'Geneticalization'
183
4
Eugenics: the Past as Prologue?
187
2
Genetic Health: a Problematic Expression
189
3
Genetic Health and Theology
192
4
Conclusion
196
3
8. Elite Sports as a Catwalk. The Culture of the Body and the Normalization of Excess
199
12
(Bart Vanreusel)
Elite Sports Idols
199
3
The Traditional Sports Idol Versus the Post-Modern Sports Idol
202
1
The Traditional Sports Idol
203
1
The Post-Modern Sports Idol
204
3
On the Catwalk
207
2
Conclusion
209
2
9. The Idolatry of the Screen
211
14
(Sylvain De Bleeckere)
The Audiovisual Civilization
211
2
The Image-Culture
213
1
Idolatry, Medium and Meaning
214
2
The Profane Perspective of Heaven
216
2
Idols as Image Products
218
2
The Alleged Idolatry - Free Idolatry
220
5
10. Glamour, Virtual Violence and Dreams of Happiness. The Audiovisual Allaying of Anxiety
225
1
(Bart Pattyn)
Imperialistic Deliverance
225
3
Theoretic Foundations
228
6
Current Changes in Mentality
234
3
The Exorcism of Anxiety
237
1
Change
238
3
11. "I Had Barbie in My Brain"
(Naomi Klein).
Theological Figures of Globalization
241
1
(Yves de Maeseneer)
Idolatry: the Limits of a Classical Marxist Topos
242
1
The Logo as Icon: Naomi Klein on Branding Capitalism
245
1
The Crucified Seraph: the Christian and the Image
250
1
'Nike': a Theological Figure of Branding
253
1
The Antichrist and the Cross: the Question of Ideology
255
1
Postscript: Moses and the Taliban
259
2
12. Afterword
Out of the Abundance of the Heart...The Intimate Bond Between Idolatry and Desire
261
12
(Roger Burggraeve, Johan De Tavernier, Didier Pollefeyt and Jo Hanssens)
You Shall not Bow Down to Them
262
1
Wounded Desire
263
1
Purified Desire
267
1
Out of the Abundance of the Heart
269
4
List of Contributors
273