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Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh – A Secular Theology for the Global City

Autor Sharon V. Betcher
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 noi 2013
Spirit and Cosmopolis puts theology on location on the streets of our planet's amassing cities. Since the social environment will be at least as important to well-being as urban infrastructure, Spirit and Cosmopolis offers philosophical reflection worked through spiritual and religious values, then turned toward somatic practice, for living amidst the affective dynamics of the city street. Theology here turns decidedly secular. Profiled amidst urbanization in medieval Europe, seculars were uncloistered, if religiously motivated persons, carrying their spiritual passion and sense of an obligated life into their daily circumambulations of the city. Seculars lived in the city, on behalf of the city, but--contrary to the new profit economy of that time--with a different locus of value--namely, Spirit. While seculars today admit a certain loss of communication from On High, the possibility of a devoted life, the practice of felicity in history, remains. Spirit thus names a necessary "prosthesis," a locus which might be cultivated towards spacious and fearless empathy, forbearance, and generosity. While sourced from Christianity, these theological poetics are frequently set in conversation with other religions resident in our postcolonial cities so as to develop social muscles--like freedom from reactivity or corporeal generosity--not always recognized by culture at large. Because "oppression uses aesthetic judgments for its violence" (Siebers) and because the change in economic and ecological forecasts severely challenges the climate of idealism, the critically examined life of the contemporary urbanite is specifically worked through the analytic corpus of disability studies to open out the diverse angles and degrees of precarity ensconced still in the postcolonial city. The performative choreography of one who has consequently assumed the careful work of an examined life for moving along the corridors of global cities might be named "crip/tography." As a metaphor, crip/tography insinuates "disability"--that master trope for human disqualification inherited from modernism and underwriting colonialism--as a lens for hermeneutically opening out urban aesthetics and analytically assessing human affects. Crip/tography--this nomad spiritual philosophy for everyday life--is not so much a project of "saving" even the vulnerable other as it is learning to live precarious life with the deepest sense of devotion and faithfulness possible. Insomuch as Spirit serves this secular theology as a theopoetic locus for critically examining and differently evaluating the "common sense" and economics that moves our cities, "crip/tography" names a proposed choreography, a calculus based on Spirit's generosity, its spacious and fearless empathy, that redresses fear, advances neighbor love, interrupts circuits of disgust and iconographically crips platonic notions of beauty.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780823253913
ISBN-10: 0823253910
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: ME – Fordham University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Crip/tography 2. "Fearful Symmetry": Between Theological Aesthetics and Global Economics 3. Breathing through the Pain: Engaging the Cross as Tonglen, Taking to the Streets as Mendicants 4. In the Ruin of God 5. The Ballet of the Good City Sidewalk: Releasing the Optics of Disability into Social Flesh 6. "Take My Yoga Upon You" (Matt 11:29): A Spirit/ual Pli for the Global City Notes Bibliography Index

Recenzii

"Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh makes a unique, creative, and timely contribution to an area of great interest in the study of religion and theology."-Mayra Rivera, Harvard Divinity School " . . . A trend setter. This book is a path to help us find a new theology of hopefulness, a spirituality of resilience."-Rev. Dr. Devorah Greenstein, Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union
"Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh makes a unique, creative, and timely contribution to an area of great interest in the study of religion and theology."-Mayra Rivera, Harvard Divinity School " ... A trend setter. This book is a path to help us find a new theology of hopefulness, a spirituality of resilience."-Rev. Dr. Devorah Greenstein, Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union

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