Historically speaking, theology can be said to operate materiaphobically.
Protestant Christianity in particular has bestowed upon theology a privilege of the soul over the body and belief over practice, in line with the distinction between a disembodied God and the inanimate world He created.
Like all other human, social, and natural sciences, religious studies imported these theological dualisms into a purportedly secular modernity, mapping them furthermore onto the distinction betwee.
Fordham University Press Entangled worlds: religion, science, and new materialisms, paperback/catherine keller
