Spaces of Modern Theology

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Geography and Power in Schleiermachers World, New Approaches to Religion and Power

ISBN: 1137269014
ISBN 13: 9781137269010
Autor: Jungkeit, S
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xiv, 244 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

NEW AREA OF STUDY: In recent years, space has emerged as a crucial component of critical theory, but very little work has been done on how religion, and especially theology, functions as a tool for the imagination and creation of space. RETHINKS MAJOR THEOLOGIAN: By reading Schleiermacher’s rhetoric of space, a more complex story emerges, one that makes Schleiermacher indispensable to constructive and progressive theologians in the present.PRESCRIPTIVE FOR FIELD: Liberal theologies have been stuck in a cycle of postcolonial melancholia since the 1960’s. This book diagnoses the reasons for that melancholia, treating it as the result of the shattering of a hegemonic imagination of global space during the anticolonial and anti-imperialist outbreaks of the 60’s and 70’s.ADDRESSES ROLE OF RELIGION IN EMPIRE: Christian theology has been deeply implicated in the operations of colonialism and empire. This book addresses the way one of modernity’s most creative theologians performed a rhetorical intervention in the imperial imaginary of the 19th century.INTERRELATIONAL ETHICS: As debates about globalization and its discontents take shape, this book poses challenges to the new global order by reading Schleiermacher’s theology for its ethical contributions, specifically to the imagination of the world as an interconnected and interdependent whole.

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Beschreibung

As stories of borders, territorial disputes, and migration have escalated in recent years, so too space has emerged as a critical concept in theoretical literature. This book explores the imagination of space at the dawn of modern, liberal theology in the writings of Friedrich Schleiermacher. Schleiermacher wrote against the backdrop of expanding European colonialism and nationalism, providing a powerful ethics of space for a rapidly shrinking planet. Selectively appropriated, Schleiermacher's spaces of modern theology can be a valuable contribution to contemporary attempts to theorize the importance of space and place in human geographies.

Autorenporträt

Foreword by Graham Ward: Graham Ward is Professor in Contextual Theology and Ethics at the University of Manchester

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