Notes for a Decolonial Political Theology

Silvana Rabinovich (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-61102-0 (ISBN)

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At the crossroads of ethics, poetics and politics, this innovative book outlines a series of notes to decolonize political theology. The author proposes counter-hegemonic forms of reading, which deconstruct domination by embracing fragility. The book opens with a diapason of prejudicelessness as a decolonial key, focusing on prejudices that hinder critical attention to a colonial political theology that perpetuates hatred. The first set of notes aims to ‘de-orientalize the Semite’ by reading midrashic and biblical texts in the present context, the second seeks to decolonize language by exploring the power of translation, and the third ponders decolonial theo-logics to outline a justice of the other. Connecting a number of fields, authors, and epistemologies, the book addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and brings together Jewish thought, continental philosophy, and Latin American perspectives. It engages with a range of thinkers, including Benjamin and Arendt, and features an interview with Enrique Dussel as well as a foreword by Gil Anidjar. This is an important methodological proposal for interdisciplinary and intercultural political theology and a valuable contribution towards rethinking the paradigm of political theology beyond its Eurocentric and colonialist premises.

Silvana Rabinovich is a Full Professor in the Institute for Philological Research (IIFL) at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is author of Biblical Figures in Israel’s Colonial Political Theology (2022).

Foreword by Gil Anidjar

Preface

Diapason: Prejudicelessness and Hopes: Decolonizing Immunities

Section 1 De-Orientalizing “The Semite”

First Part: Breaching the World’s Fence, Toward Wider Readings

Second Part: Justice of the Other in the (Un) Holy Land

Section 2 The Hinge of Translations: To Decolonize Language

Section 3 Decolonial Theo-Logics

Appendix - Toward a Justice of the Other: The Word to Come

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Transforming Political Theologies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-032-61102-2 / 1032611022
ISBN-13	978-1-032-61102-0 / 9781032611020
Zustand	Neuware