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- Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Fordham University Press
summary
Postcolonial theology has recently emerged as a site of intense intellectual and political energy and has taken its place in the interdisciplinary field of postcolonial studies. This volume is animated by the conviction that postcolonial theology is now ready for a second, deeper phase of engagement with postcolonial theory, one that moves beyond the general to the specific. No critic has been more emblematic of the challenging and contested field of postcolonial theory than Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. In this volume, the product of a theological colloquium in which Spivak herself participated, theologians and biblical scholars engage with her thought in order to catalyze a diverse range of original theological and exegetical projects. The volume opens with a topographyof postcolonial theology and also includes other valuable introductory essays. At the center of the collection are transcriptions of two extended public dialogues with Spivak on theology and religion in general. A further dozen essays appropriate Spivak's work for theological and ethical reflection. The volume is also significant for the larger field of postcolonial studies in that it is the first to focus centrally on Spivak's immensely suggestive and vital concept of planetarity.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgements
- pp. ix-xii
- Introductions
- Situating Spivak
- pp. 15-30
- Conversations
- Love: A Conversation
- pp. 55-78
- Appropriations
- ‘‘Effects of Grace’’: Detranscendentalizing
- pp. 225-237
- Comparative Theology after ‘‘Religion’’
- pp. 238-257
- Crip/tography: Of Karma and Cosmopolis
- pp. 303-330
- Contributors
- pp. 411-414
- Index of Names
- pp. 415-426
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823248780
Related ISBN(s)
9780823233250
MARC Record
OCLC
708566770
Pages
480
Launched on MUSE
2012-07-18
Language
English
Open Access
No