Unsettling Theologies

Memory, Identity, and Place
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-46120-0
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Reihe: Postcolonialism and Religions

How can we understand and respond to past and present entanglements of Christianity with colonisation? What kinds of theological perspectives and approaches are needed in the wake of colonisation and its impact? Unsettling Theologies includes responses to these questions from Aboriginal, Maori, Pasifika and White scholars. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mawson, Michael

Kolia, Brian Fiu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Befreiungstheologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction.- Part I Unsettling Whiteness.- 2 Jesus Christ, Once Was a Savage! Selective Memory, Staged Identity, and Stolen Spaces.- 3 ‘The Poor Bugger Has Suffered Enough’: Vernon Ah Kee, Warwick Thornton,and the Unmaking of a White Jesus.- 4 Unsettling Jesus Christ: Indigenous and Settler Christologies in the Aftermath of Colonisation.- 5 Unsettling Theologies Means Unsettling Theological Institutions!.- Part II Dismantling Colonial Systems.- 6 Uncovering the Mat: Restorative Justice for the Dawn Raids?.- 7 ‘It’s Giving … Colonization’: Challenges to Mental Resilience for Diasporic Christian Pacific Youth.- 8 Unsettling Providential Partnership: A Critical Examination of Robert Maunsell and George Grey’s Partnership in Ma¯ori Education.- 9 Spiritualities of Belonging and Intercultural Politics in Australia.- 10 To Conquer and Subdue: An Ecological Reading of Wilderness in Jeremiah 17:5–8 and Beyond.- Part III Un-silencing Alter-Native Theologies.- 11 Taught to Fish but Still Starving: Unsettling Theological Hermeneutics in Oceania.- 12 Archives: From Places of Silence and Silencing to Places of Regeneration.- 13 Beyond the Tautologa: Tu(akoi) from a Geopolitical Lens.- 14 Unsettling Economies: A Moana Account(ing).

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Fiu Kolia is Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at Malua Theological College and an ordained minister of the Congregational Christian Church, Samoa. His roots go back to the villages of Sili Savaii, Satapuala, Tufutafoe and Faleaseela.
Michael Mawson is the Maclaurin Goodfellow Associate Professor of Theological and Religious Studies at the University of Auckland/ Waipapa Taumata Rau. He is a Pakeha (white) New Zealander with Scottish and English ancestry.