Memory, grief, and agency : a political theological account of wrongs and rites.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boopalan, Sunder John, author, author.

Series:

New approaches to religion and power

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination--Religious aspects.

Discrimination.

Discrimination--India.

India.

Discrimination--United States.

United States.

Race discrimination--Religious aspects.

Physical Description:

xiii, 242 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : political and theological framework

Wrongs and formations of violent identities : theorizing caste and race

Ethics of corporeal obligation : grammar of the body and language of wrongs

Theological unease with remembering wrongs : Miroslav Volf and Oliver O'Donovan

Agential roles of memory and grief : internal and external works (or rites)

Wrongs and rites : ritual of humiliation and rites of moral responsibility.

ISBN:

9783319589572

3319589571

9783319589589

331958958X

OCLC:

1005133893