A Political Theology of Vulnerability

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54326-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Political and Public Theologies

Vulnerability is at the core of the political drama of our time. Countering conventional approaches, this book presents human vulnerability as a source of political community and a potential for political agency in precarity. Analyzing Christian celebrations of Christmas and Easter in contexts of struggle, it shows how religious resources inspire precarious politics. Combining critical political theory, liberation theology, and lived religion, Sturla J. Stålsett sees in such celebrations a ‘political sacralization’ of vulnerability and a ‘dispossession of divinity.’

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stålsett, Sturla J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Fires in Paradise

1 Project: A Political Theology of Vulnerability

1 Questions

2 Definitions

3 Contribution

4 Procedure

2 Precarity: Political Agency and Community in Crisis

1 Precariat

2 Multitude

3 Bare life

4 Immunity

5 Necropolitics

6 Precarity

3 Precarious: Reconsidering Vulnerability

1 Provocation

2 Grievability

3 Differentiation

4 Agency

5 Relationality

6 Responsibility

7 Community

8 Recognition

9 Dispossession

10 Resilience

11 Resistance

12 Performativity

13 Affirmation

14 Framing

4 Precious: Religion in Precarious Times

1 Secularization

2 Security

3 Deprivation

4 Responses

5 Ultimacy

6 Wrongness

7 ‘Handling’

5 Preaching: Sacralizing Vulnerability

1 Birthdays

2 San Jorge

3 Divine Dispossession

4 Vulnerable God

5 Sacralizing Vulnerability

6 Subversive Salvation

7 Community-in-Vulnerability

8 Infrapolitics

6 Prayer: Spirituals Confronting Crucifixion

1 Spirituals

2 Community

3 Strange Fruit

4 Recrucifixions

5 Wounds

6 Healing Sub Contrario

7 Amnesty

8 Love

7 Promise: The Vulnerable Basis of Political Agency and Community

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sturla J. Stålsett, Ph.D. (1998), is Professor of Religion, Society and Diaconal Studies at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society. He has published monographs, edited compilations, and written numerous research articles in English, Norwegian and Spanish on Liberation, Political and Contextual Theology, Globalization and Religion, Politics of Faith and Belief, Human Rights, Ethics and Diaconal work, including The crucified and the Crucified: A Study in the Liberation Christology of Jon Sobrino (Peter Lang, 2003), Spirits of Globalisation. The Growth of Pentecostalism and Experiential Spiritualities in a Global Age. (SCM Press, 2006), and Religion in a Globalised Age: Transfers and Transformations, Integration and Resistance (Novus Press, 2008).