Postcolonial Theologies

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Author: Keller Catherine

ISBN-10: 082723001X

ISBN-13: 9780827230019

Category: Christianity

A theology in tune with postcolonial theory has the\ potential to creatively inform and transform ecclesial practice.\ Focusing on\ the relation of theology to postcolonial theory, Postcolonial Theologies\ brings together a wide diversity of authors, many of them fresh and\ exciting\ theological voices, in essays that are stunningly creative and\ prophetically\ lucid. All essays are theologically constructive, not merely\ deconstructive\ or critical, in their visions for Christianity. Forming...

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A theology in tune with postcolonial theory has thepotential to creatively inform and transform ecclesial practice.Focusing onthe relation of theology to postcolonial theory, Postcolonial Theologiesbrings together a wide diversity of authors, many of them fresh andexcitingtheological voices, in essays that are stunningly creative andpropheticallylucid. All essays are theologically constructive, not merelydeconstructiveor critical, in their visions for Christianity. Forming a sort ofdoctrinallandscape, they emerge under the themes of theological anthropologyshapedby ethnicity, class, and privilege; a Christology that intersects theclaimsof Christ and empire; and a Cosmology that imagines a postcolonialworld.\\

Introduction : alien/nation, liberation, and the postcolonial underground11Complacencies and cul-de-sacs : Christian theologies and colonialism222Spirit and liberation : achieving postcolonial theology in the United States393Who is Americana/o? : theological anthropology, postcoloniality, and the Spanish-speaking Americas584Monstrosities, miracles, and mission : religion and the politics of disablement795Who/what is Asian? : a postcolonial theological reading of orientalism and neo-orientalism1006Homeland as borderland : territories of Christian subjectivity1187Mark and empire : "zealot" and "postcolonial" readings1348The transgressive power of Jeong : a postcolonial hybridization of Christology1499Divine commerce : a postcolonial Christology for times of neocolonial empire16410God at the crossroads : a postcolonial reading of Sophia18611Liberating God-talk : postcolonialism and the challenge of the margins20412The love of postcolonialism : theology in the interstices of empire221\\