Memory, Grief, and Agency
Autor: | Sunder John Boopalan |
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EAN: | 9783319589589 |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 18.09.2017 |
Untertitel: | A Political Theological Account of Wrongs and Rites |
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Schlagworte: | Dalit Levinas Miroslav Volf Oliver O?Donovan Ricoeur namaste |
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This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency. Such agency generates rites of moral responsibility that serve as antidotes to violent identities and catalyze hospitable social practices. 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. Grief can be redressive by transforming violent identities and hostile in-group/out-group differences when guided by a liberative political theological imagination. This volume facilitates interdisciplinary conversations between theorists and theologians of caste and race, and those interested in understanding the relation between religion and power.
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).