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Articles tagged as "Christian theology"

“The Dead Don’t Go Anywhere”: Phenomenology, Religious Studies, and History

Joshua Lupo
December 8, 2021March 1, 2022

Rather than disinterested studies of “other people” who might do theology, unlike those of us in the social sciences or humanities, we might imagine those whom we study as fellow travelers with whom we share a world.

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The Power of Kenyan, Christian, Queer Imagination

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Adriaan van Klinken
October 28, 2021October 28, 2021

The arts have an ability to explore the potential of religion to contribute to a progressive, critical, and innovative vision for society, and thus to inspire social transformation.

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The Margins of “Queer Arts of Resistance” in Sub-Saharan Africa

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Ludovic Lado
October 12, 2021

Van Klinken’s major contribution to the debate is indeed his focus on the use of religiously inspired arguments to challenge homophobia.

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Love Bites

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Ebenezer Obadare
September 28, 2021

Van Klinken’s book is an astounding ero-ethnography in which the author grapples with the question of the research field as a site of desire and vulnerability.

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Introduction to Symposium on Kenyan, Christian, Queer

Series: Symposium on Kenyan/Christian/Queer
Joshua Lupo
September 28, 2021October 27, 2021

Van Klinken and this symposium’s contributors open up new spaces for imagining the emancipatory possibilities that come with attending to queer religious life in Kenya and beyond.

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Response to Wrestling with God Symposium

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Cecelia Lynch
August 19, 2021

I am convinced (unsurprisingly for anyone who has read the book) that ethical wrestling is both crucial for any kind of meaningful life, and frequently tiring.

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Christian Ethics and the Purposes of Modernity

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Michael Barnett
July 7, 2021August 3, 2021

What is the core of Christianity and how far can a Christian venture away from the core without risking being disqualified from participation?

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Ethical Precarity and Staying with the Trouble

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Diane L. Moore
June 29, 2021

Together, Haraway and Lynch invite us into the generative power of confronting and embracing the interdependent dynamism of our existence.

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Introduction to Symposium on Wrestling with God

Series: Symposium on Wrestling with God
Joshua Lupo
June 29, 2021June 29, 2021

In thinking both critically and constructively with Christian thinkers from both the past and present, Lynch’s book shows how we might employ critical genealogical methods without succumbing to a cynical and/or fatalistic view of the world.

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Provincializing Theodicy

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion
Anthony Paul Smith
September 29, 2020October 27, 2021

They could not figure out why the police would be so violent in the face of non-violent protesters. In searching for a justification for this unjustifiable violence of the police, the anchors were engaged in theodicy.

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