Decolonial Theology in the North Atlantic World (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Theology)

Drexler-Dreis, Joseph

Brill（2019/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 90 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004412118

Full Description

This essay develops a response to the historical situation of the North Atlantic world in general and the United States in particular through theological reflection. It offers an overview of some decolonial perspectives with which theologians can engage, and argues for a general perspective for a decolonial theology as a possible response to modern/colonial structures and relations of power, particularly in the United States. Decolonial theory holds together a set of critical perspectives that seek the end of the modern/colonial world-system and not merely a democratization of its benefits. A decolonial theology, Joseph Drexler-Dreis argues, critiques how the confinement of knowledge to European traditions has closed possibilities for understanding historical encounters with divinity, and thus possibilities of critical reflection. A decolonial theology reflects critically on a historical situation in light of faith in a divine reality, the understanding of which is liberated from the monopoly of modern/colonial ways of knowing, in order to catalyze social transformation.

Contents

Decolonial Theology in the North Atlantic World

 Joseph Drexler-Dreis

Abstract

Keywords

 Introduction: Theological Reflection in the North Atlantic World

 Part 1: The Modern/Colonial World-System: Analysis and Response

 Part 2: Decolonial Theologies

 Part 3: A Decolonial Theology of Freedom

 Conclusion: Theological Reflection for Decolonization

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