Decolonial Love

Joseph Drexler-Dreis

Description

Bringing together theologies of liberation and decolonial thought, Decolonial Love interrogates colonial frameworks that shape Christian thought and legitimize structures of oppression and violence within Western modernity. In response to the historical situation of colonial modernity, the book offers a decolonial mode of theological reflection and names a historical instance of salvation that stands in conflict with Western modernity. Seeking a new starting point for theological reflection and praxis, Joseph Drexler-Dreis turns to the work of Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin. Rejecting a politics of inclusion into the modern world-system, Fanon and Baldwin engage reality from commitments that Drexler-Dreis describes as orientations of decolonial love. These orientations expose the idolatry of Western modernity, situate the human person in relation to a reality that exceeds modern/colonial significations, and catalyze and authenticate historical movement in conflict with the modern world-system. The orientations of decolonial love in the work of Fanon and Baldwin-whose work is often perceived as violent from the perspective of Western modernity-inform theological commitments and reflection, and particularly the theological image of salvation.Decolonial Love offers to theologians a foothold within the modern/colonial context from which to commit to the sacred and, from a historical encounter with the divine mystery, face up to and take responsibility for the legacies of colonial domination and violence within a struggle to transform reality.

Sujets

• Christian theology
• Literary theory
• Theology
• Christianity

Informations

• Publié par: Fordham University Press
• Date de parution: 04 décembre 2018
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780823281909
• Langue: English

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D e c o l o n i a l L o v e

Decolonial Love Salvation in Colonial Modernity

Joseph Drexler-Dreis

f o r d h a m u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s New York 2019

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Drexler-Dreis, Joseph, author. Title: Decolonial love : salvation in colonial modernity / Joseph Drexler-Dreis. Description: First edition. | New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2019.  | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018024884| ISBN 9780823281886 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN  9780823281879 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Liberation theology. | Love—Religious aspects—Christianity.  | Baldwin, James, 1924 –1987. | Fanon, Frantz, 1925–1961. | Postcolonial theology. Classification: LCC BT83.57 .D74 2019 | DDC 261.8—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018024884

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Introduction: What Is Decolonial Love?

Part I:christian theology in the networks of colonial modernity Colonial Modernity as a Historical Context The Entanglement of Christian Theology and the Coloniality of Power: The Possibilities of a Response Decolonial Openings in Theologies of Liberation

Part IIdecolonial love Frantz Fanon’s Decolonial Love: A New Humanism in Historical Struggle James Baldwin’s Decolonial Love: Uncovering the Revelation of the Beat

Part IIItheological reflection as a decolonial option 6. The Theological Pedagogy of Frantz Fanon and James Baldwin 7.DecolonizinSaglvation135  Conclusion: Sharpening Decolonial Options in the Present Moment

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