The deaths of Moses: The death penalty and the division of sovereignty
Derrida insists that any effort to think theological-political power "in its possibility" must begin with the death penalty. In this paper, I revisit the death of Moses Paul, "an Indian," executed in New Haven in 1772 for the murder of Moses Cook, a white man. The Mohegan ministe...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2018]
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Critical research on religion
Jahr: 2018, Band: 6, Heft: 2, Seiten: 168-183 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
/ Todesstrafe
/ Hoheitsakt
B Occom, Samson 1723-1792 / Standrede / USA / Indianer / Mord / Siedler / Weiße / Todesstrafe / Hoheitsakt |
| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik KBQ Nordamerika ZC Politik |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Indigenous sovereignty
B Samson Occom B death penalty B Derrida B Paul |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Derrida insists that any effort to think theological-political power "in its possibility" must begin with the death penalty. In this paper, I revisit the death of Moses Paul, "an Indian," executed in New Haven in 1772 for the murder of Moses Cook, a white man. The Mohegan minister Samson Occom delivered Paul's execution sermon and accompanied him to the gallows. Revised, Occom's sermon was one of the first works published by a Native American author in English. Occom suggests there can be a theological-political power that signals itself not by decreeing the death penalty, but by opposing it. Hence sovereignty can be thought, with and against Derrida, as the theologico-political power to restore life. By opposing death to grace, moreover, Occom achieves a division of sovereignties, creating an opening for Indigenous nations within the scaffolding of the settler state. Working in collaboration, then, Occom and Paul produce a political theology. |
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| ISSN: | 2050-3040 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Critical research on religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/2050303218774894 |