Notes Toward a Dissident Theo-Politics
The following essay asks what theo-political grammar might effectively address the growing crisis of democracy in North America. Previous responses to this made by political theology and liberation theology are still rooted in a dialectical mode of analysis, thereby concealing the discursive limitat...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2017]
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Political theology
Jahr: 2017, Band: 18, Heft: 4, Seiten: 290-308 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Nordamerika
/ Demokratie
/ Krise
/ Rassismus
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| RelBib Classification: | CG Christentum und Politik KBQ Nordamerika |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Friendship
B crisis of democracy B theo-politics B whiteness-as-god |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The following essay asks what theo-political grammar might effectively address the growing crisis of democracy in North America. Previous responses to this made by political theology and liberation theology are still rooted in a dialectical mode of analysis, thereby concealing the discursive limitations that constrain possibilities for material progress. As a response, I posit a Dissident Theo-Politics that borrows from post-structuralist thought. This Dissident Theo-Politics recognizes Whiteness to be the central source of meaning in the USA, thus its most important symbol and apex of its theology, that is, a god. Theology considered in this way invites new discursive options that produce different yet non-oppositional ways of engaging the complicated crises in American democracy. The constructive strategy I put forward is a radical democratic friendship based on love (philia) extended disproportionality between those who are perceived as social unequals. Using both Derrida and Ella Baker I argue for radical democratic friendship as a source to inspire insurgent energies to provisionally re-set US socio-political conditions. |
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| Beschreibung: | Das Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 18 Numbers 3-4 May-June 2017" |
| ISSN: | 1462-317X |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2017.1311062 |