Troubling (Public) Theologies

Jione Havea

doi:10.5771/9781978714410

Summary

Theologies, no matter their designations, are public measures—they disclose as well as gauge the publics (near and far) on which they stand, sit, lie, or fall. Because publics shift and mingle, theologies require reimagining, relocating, and embracing fresh insights and energies. The insights and energies embraced in this work are in three clusters: spaces, bodies, and technologies. The spotlighted spaces are in Africa, Asia, Black America, the Caribbean, and Pasifika—beyond the eyes of mainline theologies; the privileged bodies have survived, with scars from empire and missionary positionings; and the welcomed technologies include Dalit, indigenous, art, poetry, cyborg, and the novel. This collection is troubling in several ways: first, reimagining and relocating are troubling acts upon their subject matter—here, public theologies. On that note, what theology is not public? Second, this work takes theologies in general, and not just the theologies that carry the “public” designation, to be public theologies. Third, this work takes theologies in general to be inherently troubling. In other words, theologies that are not troubling are not public enough.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1440-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1441-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 220
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Preface No access
1. 1. Lazarus’s Space No access
2. 1. Lazarus’s Body No access
3. 1. Lazarus’s Technology No access
4. Haunting No access
5. Notes No access
1. “This is my country” No access
2. “You don’t have to know my name” No access
3. 1. I. Babylon—City of Man No access
  2. II. Chant down Babylon No access
  3. III. Zion—City of God No access
4. “What the child knows” No access
5. “grow up!” No access
6. Note No access
1. 1. African Women’s Theologies/Missiology No access
  2. The Bible in the Zambian Public No access
  3. Decolonizing the Bible in Zambia No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Setting the Context No access
  2. 1. Wisdom, Pleasure, and Toil (Eccl 1:12–3:15) No access
  3. 1. Postcolonial Social Critique of Injustice (Eccl 3:16–4:16 and 5:7–6:10) No access
  4. Reclaiming the Voices of the Powerless and Recovering the Knowledge of the Voiceless No access
  5. Women and Qoheleth No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. 1. Burol No access
    2. Pasiyam No access
    3. Kwarenta Dias No access
    4. Collective Grief No access
    5. Death Is Public No access
  2. Jesus and Death No access
  3. 1. Covid and Lazarus No access
  4. Notes No access
4. 1. A Tausua Hermeneutic No access
  2. Exodus 14: The Whinging Israelites No access
  3. Creation Narrative: Genesis No access
  4. 1. Tala tuumusumusu No access
    2. Faleaitu No access
  5. Running Naked: The Young Man in Mark 14:51–52 No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
1. 1. Legacy of the British Empire and Its Impact upon the Mizo Society No access
  2. 1. Corruption of Mizo Language No access
  3. Question of Civilization and Identity No access
  4. Developing a New Mission: Confronting the Empire and Constructing a Liberating Christ No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. 1. Cupido: “Poor Boy” No access
    2. Quamina: “Mouse” No access
    3. Caffre Chief Tzatzoe: “Wild Beast” No access
    4. Emma Martin: “That Woman” No access
  2. Arising with Cupido, Quamina, Tzatzoe, Martin and Judy No access
  3. Notes No access
3. 1. The “ish” in Brit(ish) No access
  2. Public Theology in a Post-Secular British Public Square No access
  3. 1. Dalit Theology Enables Contested Epistemologies No access
    2. Dalit Theology Exposes Hypocritical Silence on Exclusion No access
    3. Dalit Theology Envisages a Shift to Subalternity No access
  4. 1. Anti-Hunger Theology No access
    2. Anti-Empire Theology No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
4. 1. Jesus Goes to Tyre No access
  2. A Syrophoenician Woman Comes to Jesus No access
  3. Sass No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. Ambedkar’s Critique of Technology No access
  2. Technology and Salvation No access
  3. Towards a New Political Theology of Technology No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. Cyborg’s Existential Capacities No access
  2. Cyborg as Our problem No access
  3. Upgrading Inequality, Autoamputation, and Polarization of Sensibility and Sensitivity No access
  4. Homo Faber as Inter-carnation, as the Materialization of Divine Calling No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. Atayal’s Cultural Landscape No access
  2. Eyes of Ancestral Spirits No access
  3. Aesthetics of Everydayness No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
4. 1. 1. Exodus as Liberating? No access
    2. Liberating Exodus? No access
  2. 1. The King and the Pharaoh No access
    2. The Dog and the Israelites No access
    3. God and Wind No access
  3. Implications No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
1. 1. Poetics No access
  2. 1. Damned Even in Paradise No access
    2. Unjust in Paradise, as on Earth No access
  3. Transforming God-talk No access
  4. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 199 - 210
Index No access Pages 211 - 214
Contributors No access Pages 215 - 220