Postcolonial Theology
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Deimperalization and decolonization are prefixed by the word ‘de-’, which means there is something to remove, reduce, and reverse. Deimperalization and decolonization are closely intertwined, and they serve a similar purpose.... more
A paper about African Theology in the 21st Century.
Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion, Vol. 5 (2014), also available online through their site,
http://raceandreligion.com/JRER/Volume_5_(2014)_files/McGee%205%203.pdf
http://raceandreligion.com/JRER/Volume_5_(2014)_files/McGee%205%203.pdf
Final paper submitted to Marilyn Legge of the Toronto School of Theology (Emmanuel College).
Editorial de Horizontes Decoloniales 2 (2016): pp. 1-22
Queere und postkoloniale Theorien erlauben autoritäre und diskriminierende religiöse Identifizierung zum Vorschein zu bringen. Empirische Beispiele zeigen desidentifizierende Widerstandstrategien, wie sie junge Menschen in... more
Publicado en Nicolás Panotto, ed. "INDECENT THEOLOGIANS & The Next Generation of Postcolonial Activism". California: Borderless Press, 2016, pp.105-131
In diesem Band werden zum ersten Mal in deutscher Sprache die wichtigsten Aufsätze postkolonialer Theologie vorgestellt und in einer umfangreichen Einleitung das Spektrum postkolonialer Theologie erkundet und Chancen und Herausforderungen... more
Case studies in postcolonial contextualization mark a forty-year-old missiolog-ical trend in evangelical scholarship. The largely unqualified support of indigenous theological expression by mission theorists represents an epistemological... more
Poco a poco va ganando fuerza la necesidad de entender y estudiar los procesos coloniales en la Antigüedad desde una perspectiva que vaya más allá de las teorías aculturacionistas, lo que conlleva la necesidad de emplear enfoques teóricos... more
'The Symbolic Scenarios of Islamism' initiates a dialogue between the discourse of three of the most discussed figures in the history of the Sunni Islamic movement — Hasan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, and Osama bin Laden — and contemporary... more
El presente texto examina las formas de predicación jesuita, contenidas en el esquema de subjetividad cristiana, y que entran en juego con las estrategias de conquista, expansión y explotación en el reino de Chile durante el siglo XVII.... more
In 2013, Edward Snowden released a trove of documents revealing the extent of government electronic surveillance. Since then, we have been inundated with reports of vicious malware attacks, election hacking, data breaches, potential... more
This paper is part of the Reflection Papers of the 2014 FACE THE FACTS program by World Council for Mission (WCM) held in the Philippines. Starting with some personal impressions, the author is trying to refigure a theology of empire and... more
„The liturgical turn is back“, schreibt Cláudio Carvalhaes in Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives: „unkontrolliert, messy, gespeist von undenkbaren Quellen und tief beeinflusst vom neoliberalen Wirtschaftssystem.“ Nicht erst durch die... more
This is an abstract for a paper I hope to write/present. It still needs some work.
This chapter charts various ways that religious persons and groups can be perpetrators and victims of epistemic injustice. Religious persons and communities can commit, or can suffer, epistemic injustices. Miranda Fricker, for instances,... more
... Siobhán Garrigan, Julie Gittoes, Brutus Green, David Grumett, Vicky Gunn, Symon Hill,John Hughes, Lisa Isherwood, Louise Lawrence, Morwenna Ludlow, Stuart Macwilliam,Jon Morgan, Noel Moules, Rachel Muers, Philippa Newis, David Nixon,... more
Preface - E.M.Townes Introduction - M.L.Harris and K.M.Ott Section One: Coming to Voice: Faith and Feminism Remnants: Mothering, Spirituality and African American Activism - R.E.Harding Christian Feminist Theology and Postcolonial... more
Presented at annual conference of Society for the Study of Theology, 12-14th April 2021
In the tumultuous years following the Jubilee celebration of the Methodist Church in Fiji (2014), the 'New Exodus' vision of Tuikilakila Waqairatu and Tevita Nawadra Banivanua shaped the homiletic focus of the MCIF. Through careful... more
Scientists correlate biodiversity with the preservation of indigenous languages. The Orthodox Church's role is to stabilize all indigenous cultures that enculturate the Holy Tradition into their own languages.
in Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theology: Storyweaving in the Asia-Pacific’, edited by Mark Brett and Jione Havea. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
In her groundbreaking book "Appalachian Mountain Religion," Deborah Vansau McCauley leveled an important critique against emerging articulations of “Appalachian liberation theology.” Protestant and Roman Catholic churches and movements... more
Explores the historical and theological roots of the Residential/Boarding Schools in the United States and Canada for Indigenous children, their contemporary impacts as described in historical trauma literature and the current Truth and... more
This dissertation explores the potential of the “theopoetics” of Richard Kearney, John D. Caputo, and Catherine Keller for Christian theological reflection on religious difference and interreligious encounter. It suggests religious... more
In Pt. 2 of WYPR's series with the Institute for Islamic, Christian and Jewish Studies, Dr. Benjamin Sax tells us about the Jewish theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel and his philosophy on forgiveness.
Utilizing Kierkegaard’s concept of Indirect Communication, Powell engages the religious writing of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, a nun from 17th Century New Spain, Mexico’s colonial past. Powell builds a theological case for the inclusion of... more
As an American born woman with the blood of the colonized and the colonizer running through my veins, I have been the unwilling victim of the patriarchal, heterosexist and racist indoctrination of the United States. Consciously championed... more
This paper gives an overview of the role of religious faith in radical movements for justice in Appalachia. In the context of changing views of Appalachian issues, politics, orgaznizing, and theorizing since the 1960s toward an... more
"David R. Brockman is Research Associate for the Progressive Christian Center of the South. He has taught courses in theology of religions, world religions, Asian religions, christology, and the social context of Christianity at Perkins... more