The Messianic Commons : Images of the Messiah after Modernity

Blower, David Benjamin

SCM Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 160 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780334066385

Full Description

Messianic stories run through the Abrahamic faiths and many others besides. Messianism is the religion of the oppressed; the faith of those whose struggle compels them toward alternative futures. Messianism has also become a watchword for visionaries of radical politics, far beyond confessional religious spaces.

These sketches explore how we might encounter ourselves differently in the dim light of that illusive figure: how we might reimagine ourselves as ecological creatures, economic agents, and as beings who dance differently with power and life, amidst the many threads of messianic folklore.

Contents

Prologue viii
Introduction and Acknowledgements xi
1 Religion Is Strange Again 1
2 Messianic Folklore 12
3 The Open Ekklesia 37
4 All Things 57
5 Sacred Spaces 76
6 Transfiguring Work 95
7 The Sacred Absence of Rule 113
Bibliography 132