Enfleshing Freedom Body, Race, and Being

Name: Enfleshing Freedom Body, Race, and Being
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ISBN: 9780800662745

ISBN-10: 0800662741

ISBN-13: 9780800662745

Edition: 2009

Authors: M. Shawn Copeland

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Being human is neither abstract nor hypothetical. It is concrete, visceral, and embodied in the everyday experience and relationships that determine who we are. In that case, argues distinguished theologian Shawn Copeland, we have much to learn from the embodied experience of black women who, for centuries, have borne in their bodies the identities and pathologies of those in power. With rare insight and conviction, Copeland demonstrates how black women's experience and oppression cast a completely different light on our theological theorems and pious platitudes and reveal them as a kind of mental colonization that still operates powerfully in our economic and political configurations…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication date: 10/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Foreword



Introduction



Body, Race, and Being


Making a Body Black: Inventing Race


Skin as Horizon: Theorizing Race and Racism


Seeing Body


Being Black


Black Body Theology



Enfleshing Freedom


Objectifying the Body


The Subject of Freedom


The Freedom of the Subject


Enfleshing Freedom-Return to the Clearing



Marking the Body of Jesus, the Body of Christ


Jesus and Empire


The Body in the New Imperial (Dis)Order


Marking the (Queer) Flesh of Christ


(Re)Marking the Flesh of the Church



Turning the Subject


A New Anthropological Question


A New Anthropological Subject


Solidarity


Eschatological Healing of "the Body of Broken Bones"



Eucharist, Racism, and Black Bodies


Wounding the Body of a People


Terrorizing the Body of a People


Eucharistic Solidarity: Embodying Christ


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index