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 religious agency, can provide an invigorating occasion for Catholic theology.
Author(s): Susan Abraham
Edition: First Edition
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 256
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1 Doing Theology in the Postcolonial Context: Issues and Problems......Page 16
Why Rahner?......Page 25
Political and Liberation Theologies......Page 45
Postcolonial, Anticolonial, and Decolonizing Theory......Page 53
Disarticulating Theology and Theory: Faith and Power in the Postcolonial Context......Page 60
2 Negotiating Cultural and Religious Identity in the Postcolony......Page 66
Cultural and Religious Identity at the Boundary......Page 74
The “Supernatural Existential”: Grace as Intrinsic to Religious Identity......Page 85
Porous Cultural Boundaries......Page 94
Porous Religious Boundaries......Page 101
Hybrid Cultural and Theological Strategies: Intercultural and Interreligious Proposals......Page 108
3 Embodied Ethics in the Postcolony......Page 116
Ethics in the Postcolony......Page 124
Existential Ethics: Rahner’s “Fundamental Option”......Page 135
Embodied Interventions: The Interruptive Caress......Page 144
Incarnating the “Fundamental Option”......Page 150
Love as the Singular Caress of the Gendered Subaltern......Page 156
4 Spirituality and Nonviolent Polity in the Postcolony......Page 164
Decolonizing the Mind and the Spirit......Page 168
Indiferençia as the “Mysticism of Everyday”......Page 179
Embracing Many Worlds: The Practice of Spirituality......Page 190
Practical Mysticism......Page 199
Mysticism of Identity and Mysticism of Love......Page 207
5 Theology in the Postcolonial Context......Page 210
Notes......Page 222
Bibliography......Page 236
F......Page 256
Z......Page 257
