Post-Traumatic Public Theology

Stephanie N. Arel earned her PhD from Boston University’s School of Theology, USA, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for the Bio-cultural Study of Religion at Boston University. She holds a certificate in trauma modalities for clinical treatment from the New York Institute for the Psychotherapies, USA. Her research focuses on trauma, shame, and Christian formation.Shelly Rambo is Associate Professor of Theology at Boston University School of Theology, USA. She is author of Spirit and Trauma: A Theology of Remaining. Her current book project, Resurrecting Wounds: Living in the Afterlife of Trauma, re-approaches the meaning of resurrection in Christian theology in light of the reality of post-traumatic wounding.

“This was an enjoyable book to read. I liked how each author of the essays was able to take their own topic and run with it. There is so much trauma in the world and we often do not know how to deal with it. Hopefully, this book … will help us learn more about dealing with trauma.” (Justin Dilliplane, Resolved for Christ, resolvedfc.blogspot.de, January, 2018)

• 1. Introduction. Post-Traumatic Theology; Shelly Rambo.- 2. War Bodies: Remembering Bodies in Times of War; Willie James Jennings.- 3. Trauma, Reality, and Eucharist; Bryan P. Stone.- 4. Running the Gauntlet of Humiliation: Disablement in/as the Effect of Trauma; Sharon V. Betcher.- 5. The Trauma of Racism and the Distorted White Imagination; Daniel Hauge.- 6. Serving the Spirit of Goodness:” Spiritual and Theological Responses to Affliction; Wendy Farley.- 7. Elegy for a Lost World; Mark I. Wallace.- 8. The Virtual Body of Christ and the Embrace of Those Traumatized by Cancer; Deanna Thompson.- 9. Attuned to Justice: Rethinking Restorative Justice and Affective Experiences of Trauma; Stephanie N. Arel.- 10. 9/11 Changed Things: The (Post-Traumatic) Religious Studies Classroom; Trina J. Jones.- 11. Looking Through the Bars: Immigration Detention and the Ethics of Mysticism; Susanna Snyder.- 12. Taking Matter Seriously: Material Theopoetics in the Aftermath of Communal Violence; Michelle Walsh.- 13. Traumas of Belonging: Nation, Religion, and Gender in the Partition in India; Susan Abraham .- Afterword.