EAN: 9783319865188

NEW APPROACHES TO RELIGION AND POWER MEMORY G...

This book argues that an active memory of and grief over structural wrongs yields positive
agency. Such agency generates rites of moral responsibility that serve as antidotes to violent
identities and catalyze hospitable social practices. By comparing Indian and U.S. contexts of
caste and race  Sunder John Boopalan proposes that wrongs today are better understood as
rituals of humiliation which are socially conditioned practices of domination affected by
discriminatory logics of the past. Grief can be redressive by transforming violent identities
and hostile in-group out-group differences when guided by a liberative political theological
imagination. This volume facilitates interdisciplinary conversations between theorists and
theologians of caste and race  and those interested in understanding the relation between
religion and power.

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