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Celtic Christianity and the Future of Religious Production

出版	University of Florida, 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=34d9AQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋ABSTRACT: In this thesis I analyze the debates and issues surrounding the modern Celtic Christianity movement largely through an examination of relevant popular and scholarly literature. Celtic Christianity is a modern Christian spirituality movement allegedly based in the beliefs and practices of pre-Christian and early Christian Celtic peoples, generally in present-day Ireland, Scotland and Wales. As a Christian tradition, several popular writers offer works on Celtic Christian theology, which generally emphasize the basic goodness of God's Creation and the need to protect that Creation from harm. Some critics, though, challenge the historical and theological claims made by Celtic Christians. These critics point to inaccuracies in popular Celtic Christian historical accounts and the borrowing of Celtic religious and cultural themes by non-Celtic peoples in their arguments against the modern movement. They sometimes conclude that Celtic Christianity is part of a larger trend of secularized, individualistic religious production that ultimately harms the cultures from which it borrows. Rather than accepting as true the claims of believers and critics, my point in this thesis is to examine the contesting claims of authority and accuracy from a religious studies perspective. Through this perspective, I understand religious appropriation and invention as part of the general processes of religious creation and evolution. As a creation-centered, or nature-centered, tradition, Celtic Christianity represents a modern attempt to address ecological and social crises from a Christian religious framework.