Remembering lived lives : a historiography from modernity's underside / Jimenez, Michael.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jimenez, Michael (Michael P.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Religious aspects--Christianity.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 169 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, 2017.

Summary:

Remembering Lived Lives is a religious historiography book that focuses on issues and theorists located primarily in Latin America. Instead of joining the chorus of contemporary European intellectuals like Slavoj Zizek, who insist on a renewed Eurocentrism, this study challenges both historians and theologians to take seriously the work done by theorists located in what Enrique Dussel calls the underside of modernity. This is an interdisciplinary work that opens with Karl Barth's outline for historical-theological study and closes with an analysis of the film The Mission. Written for both the history or theology instructor and student, it deals with subjects like church history, biography as theology, liberation theology as primary source material, photographs, and historical movies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Happy Historian: Diversifying Karl Barth's Advice to History Students 15

Chapter 2 Never Forget (But How Will They Forget if They Never Heard?): Challenging a Eurocentric History 48

Chapter 3 History as Biography: McClendon's Use of Narrative to Create Empathy 86

Chapter 4 The Newspaper in One Hand and the Remote Control in the Other: On History and Cinema 118.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-163) and index.

ISBN:

9781498234856

1498234879

9781498234870

1498234852

OCLC:

964644640

Publisher Number:

99972588480