“I Am the Ghost Who E’er Denies”: An Exodus-based Biblical Sociology of Religion and Its Role in Society

• Main Author: Locker, Markus Ekkehard
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2017
• Subjects: Sacred; Discourse; Image of God; Imagination
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/theology-faculty-pubs/63; https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/i-am-the-ghost-who-eer-denies
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article argues that a study of the role of religion in society has to start with an understanding of the discursive encounter with the Sacred. This paradoxical encounter with the God who is, and is not, is the foundation of imagining a society in which possibilities and impossibilities remain i...