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OverviewDrawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidance for moving amidst the affective dynamics that animate the streets of the global cities now amassing around our planet. Here theology turns decidedly secular. In urban medieval Europe, seculars were uncloistered persons who carried their spiritual passion and sense of an obligated life into daily circumambulations of the city. Seculars lived in the city, on behalf of the city, but-contrary to the new profit economy of the time-with a different locus of value: spirit. Betcher argues that for seculars today the possibility of a devoted life, the practice of felicity in history, still remains. Spirit now names a necessary ""prosthesis,"" a locus for regenerating the elemental commons of our interdependent flesh and thus for cultivating spacious and fearless empathy, forbearance, and generosity. Her theological poetics, though based in Christianity, are frequently in conversation with other religions resident in our postcolonial cities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sharon V. BetcherPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9780823253913ISBN 10: 0823253910 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 11 November 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Crip/tography 2. ""Fearful Symmetry"": Between Theological Aesthetics and Global Economics 3. Breathing through the Pain: Engaging the Cross as Tonglen, Taking to the Streets as Mendicants 4. In the Ruin of God 5. The Ballet of the Good City Sidewalk: Releasing the Optics of Disability into Social Flesh 6. ""Take My Yoga Upon You"" (Matt 11:29): A Spirit/ual Pli for the Global City Notes Bibliography Index"Reviews<br> Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh makes a unique, creative, and timely contribution to an area of great interest in the study of religion and theology. -Mayra Rivera, Harvard Divinity School<p><br> . . . A trend setter. This book is a path to help us find a new theology of hopefulness, a spirituality of resilience. -Rev. Dr. Devorah Greenstein, Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union<p><br> ... A trend setter. This book is a path to help us find a new theology of hopefulness, a spirituality of resilience. GCoRev. Dr. Devorah Greenstein, Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh makes a unique, creative, and timely contribution to an area of great interest in the study of religion and theology. -Mayra Rivera, Harvard Divinity School ... A trend setter. This book is a path to help us find a new theology of hopefulness, a spirituality of resilience. -Rev. Dr. Devorah Greenstein, Starr King School for the Ministry, Graduate Theological Union Author InformationSharon Betcher is an independent scholar, writer, crip philosopher, and farmer living on Whidbey Island, Washington. She is the author of two academic texts, Spirit and the Politics of Disablement (Fortress, 2007) and Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for Global Cities (Fordham University Press, 2014) as well as chapters within many anthologies. Her theo- philosophical work engages the critical lenses of ecological, postcolonial, gender, and disability studies theory. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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