On Condemning Whom We Do Not Know: Confession of Sins, Plea Bargains and Apophatic Anthropology
This essay claims that the American plea bargain, figured as an inheritor of Christian confession practices, constructs racialized criminal subjects. It further argues that an apophatic anthropology confounds this legal practice and enables new forms of confession to be imagined. The first section u...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2022
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Political theology
Year: 2022, Volume: 23, Issue: 4, Pages: 317-334 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Verständigungsverfahren
/ Confession
/ Racism
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RelBib Classification: | KBQ North America NBE Anthropology RG Pastoral care VA Philosophy XA Law |
Further subjects: | B
apophatic theology
B Confession B Judith Butler B Michel Foucault B Subjectivity B prison abolition B Plea Bargain |
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