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Thandeka

1946–

United States

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Thandeka is a Unitarian Universalist minister, an American liberal theologian, and the creator of a contemporary affect theology. Thandeka's affect theology grounds religious knowing in human feeling, combining concepts from nineteenth-century theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher with insights from affective neuroscience. Thandeka is the founder and CEO of Love Beyond Belief, a non-profit organization.

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