Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh: A Secular Theology for the Global City

Author:   Sharon V. Betcher
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
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9780823253906


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   11 November 2013
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Sharon V. Betcher
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.545kg
ISBN:  

9780823253906


ISBN 10:   0823253902
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   11 November 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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"

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<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


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Sharon 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.

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