A Postcolonial Political Theology of Care and Praxis in Ethiopia's Era of Identity Politics
Reframing Hegemonic and Fragmented Identities through Subjective In-Betweenness
Seiten
2022
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2288-2 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-2288-2 (ISBN)
The author resists identity politics through a postcolonial political pastoral care and praxis that decolonizes biopolitical governmentalities, reframes hegemonic and fragmented identities, and restores the in-between spaces and in-between subjectivities of Ethiopians.
The author argues that identity politics eliminates Ethiopians' in-between spaces and identities and defines in-between spaces as political, social, religious, and geographical spaces that enable Ethiopians to co-exist with equity, solidarity, and justice. The elimination of in-between spaces and in-between identities creates either-or class, religious, ethnic, and gender categories. Therefore, the author proposes an in-between theology that invites Ethiopians to a new hybrid way of being to resist fragmented and hegemonic identities. The author claims that postcolonial discourse and praxis of in-between pastoral care disrupts and interrogates hegemonic definitions of culture, home, subjectivity, and identity. On the other hand, in-between pastoral care uses embodiment, belonging, subjectivity, and hybridity as features of care and praxis to create intercultural and intersubjective identities that can co-construct and co-create in-between spaces. In the in-between spaces, Ethiopians can relate with the Other with intercultural competencies to live their difference, similarity, hybridity, and complexity.
The author argues that identity politics eliminates Ethiopians' in-between spaces and identities and defines in-between spaces as political, social, religious, and geographical spaces that enable Ethiopians to co-exist with equity, solidarity, and justice. The elimination of in-between spaces and in-between identities creates either-or class, religious, ethnic, and gender categories. Therefore, the author proposes an in-between theology that invites Ethiopians to a new hybrid way of being to resist fragmented and hegemonic identities. The author claims that postcolonial discourse and praxis of in-between pastoral care disrupts and interrogates hegemonic definitions of culture, home, subjectivity, and identity. On the other hand, in-between pastoral care uses embodiment, belonging, subjectivity, and hybridity as features of care and praxis to create intercultural and intersubjective identities that can co-construct and co-create in-between spaces. In the in-between spaces, Ethiopians can relate with the Other with intercultural competencies to live their difference, similarity, hybridity, and complexity.
Rode Molla is assistant professor at Virginia Theological Seminary.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Lived Experiences of Ethiopians: How Religion, Politics, and Theology Shape the Identity and History of Ethiopians as a Modern Nation
Chapter Two: Decolonizing Identity Politics
Chapter Three: From Holistic Theology to In-Between Theology
Chapter Four: In-Between Pastoral Care: Reframing Fragmented and Hegemonic Identities Through Subjective In-Betweeness
Chapter Five: In-Between Praxes: A Pragmatic Move to Co-Create In-Between Spaces
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.11.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Emerging Perspectives in Pastoral Theology and Care |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 159 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 472 g |
| Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-2288-9 / 1666922889 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-2288-2 / 9781666922882 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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