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Identity, ethics, and nonviolence in postcolonial theory : a Rahnerian theological assessment /

In this book, Abraham argues that a theological imagination can expand the contours of postcolonial theory through a reexamination of notions of subjectivity, gender, and violence in a dialogical model with Karl Rahner. She raises the question of whether postcolonial theory, with its disavowal of re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Abraham, Susan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I: Negotiating Cultural and Religious Identity in the Postcolony
  • Introduction
  • Cultural Identity in Homi Bhabha's The Location of Culture
  • Theological Identity in Karl Rahner
  • Hybrid Religious Strategies: Hearing the Word in the Postcolony
  • Conclusion
  • Part II: Embodied Ethics and Love in the Postcolony
  • Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Postcolonial Feminist Ethics
  • Existential Ethics in Karl Rahner: the Fundamental Option
  • Embodying Love as the Singular Caress of the Doer of the Word
  • Conclusion
  • Part III: Mysticism and Spirituality of Nonviolence in the Postcolony
  • Ashis Nandy and Critical Traditionalism
  • Indifferent Freedom in Karl Rahner
  • Seeking the Eternal in the Intimate: Nonviolent Spirituality as Practice of Theory
  • Conclusion.