Memory, Grief, and Agency

A Political Theological Account of Wrongs and Rites

AvSunder John Boopalan

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien New Approaches to Religion and Power

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Beskrivning

By comparing Indian and U.S. contexts of caste and race, Sunder John Boopalan proposes that wrongs today are better understood as rituals of humiliation which are socially conditioned practices of domination affected by discriminatory logics of the past.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-08-10
Mått:148 x 210 x 15 mm
Vikt:336 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Approaches to Religion and Power
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319865188

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Sunder John Boopalan is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. His recently published essays include “Afterword: Justice Amidst Violence: Missed and Available Opportunities” in Mirage: A Sri Lankan Dalit Novel (2016) and “Doing Constructive Theology with B. R. Ambedkar: Where Theology and Ethics Kiss” in Bangalore Theological Forum (2016).

Innehållsförteckning

1: Introduction: Political and Theological Framework.- 2: Wrongs and Formations of Violent Identities: Theorizing Caste and Race.- 3: Ethics of Corporeal Obligation: Grammar of the Body and Language of Wrongs.- 4: Theological Unease with Remembering Wrongs: Miroslav Volf and Oliver O’Donovan.- 5: Agential Roles of Memory and Grief: Internal and External Works (or Rites).- 6: Wrongs and Rites: Rituals of Humiliation and Rites of Moral Responsibility.