In counterpoint : diaspora, postcoloniality, and sacramental theology / Kristine Suna-Koro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Suna-Koro, Kristine, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sacramentals.

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2017]

Summary:

"What does postcoloniality have to do with sacramentality? How do diasporic lives and imaginaries shape the course of postcolonial sacramental theology? Neither postcolonial theorists nor sacramental theologians have hitherto sought to engage in a sustained dialogue with one another. In this trailblazing volume, Kristine Suna-Koro brings postcolonialism, diaspora discourse, and Christian sacramental theology into a mutually critical and constructive transdisciplinary conversation. Dialoguing with thinkers as diverse as Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak as well as Francis D'Sa, S.J., Martin Luther, Mayra Rivera, and John Chryssavgis, the author offers a postcolonial retrieval of \ through a robust theological engagement with the postcolonial notions of hybridity, contrapuntality, planetarity, and Third Space. While exploring the methodological potential of diasporic imaginary in theology, this innovative book advances the notion of sacramental pluriverse and of Christ as its paradigmatic crescendo within the sacramental economy of creation and redemptive transformation. In the context of ecological degradation, In Counterpoint argues that it is vital for the postcolonial sacramental renewal to be rooted in ethics as a uniquely postcolonial fundamental theology." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction

Prelude I

Prelude II

Prelude III

Diasporic sights and sounds: a fugue of Christ, blue cornflowers, and wild carrots

Postcoloniality, postcolonialism, and decoloniality: beyond revolutions and reversals

Diasporic lives and hybrid homing desires

Braiding a diasporic imaginary

Ethics, theology, and the postcolonial fabric of imagination

Postcolonial hydridity: elusive, treacherous, and potentially liberating

Voyaging into the third space of contrapuntality with Edward Said

Revisiting colonized baptismal waters: sacraments under the gaze of postcolonial vigilance

On the postcolonial theopolitics of sacramentality

Sacraments and postcolonial planetarity: pursuing a nascent resonance

Toward a sacramental pluriverse: on sacraments as the ethical ciphers of postcolonial transcendence

Toward a sacramental third space: Christ and the contrapuntal hybridity of peace

Sacramental transformation and the ethical powerscapes of postcolonial Eucharist

Coda: Postcolonial ressourcement and diasporic method: reimagining the sacramental signature of all things.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 27, 2017).

ISBN:

9781532619908

1532619901