Memory, Grief, and Agency: A Political Theological Account of Wrongs and Rites Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Boopalan, Sunder John (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319865188 ISBN-13: 9783319865188 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $28.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Comparative Religion - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion |
Dewey: 200 |
Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7.7" W x 8.3" (0.60 lbs) 242 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive agency. Such agency generates rites of moral responsibility that serve as antidotes to violent identities and catalyze hospitable social practices. By comparing Indian and U.S. contexts of caste and race, Sunder John Boopalan proposes that wrongs today are better understood as rituals of humiliation which are socially conditioned practices of domination affected by discriminatory logics of the past. Grief can be redressive by transforming violent identities and hostile in-group/out-group differences when guided by a liberative political theological imagination. This volume facilitates interdisciplinary conversations between theorists and theologians of caste and race, and those interested in understanding the relation between religion and power. |