Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology

Published by Fordham University Press 2011

Planetary Loves

Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology

Edited by: Stephen D. Moore and Mayra Rivera

In the series Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292363

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Postcolonial theology has recently emerged as a site of intense intellectual and political energy and has taken its place in the interdisciplinary field of postcolonial studies. This volume is animated by the conviction that postcolonial theology is now ready for a second, deeper phase of engagement with postcolonial theory, one that moves beyond the general to the specific. No critic has been more emblematic of the challenging and contested field of postcolonial theory than Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. In this volume, the product of a theological colloquium in which Spivak herself participated, theologians and biblical scholars engage with her thought in order to catalyze a diverse range of original theological and exegetical projects. The volume opens with a "topography" of postcolonial theology and also includes other valuable introductory essays. At the center of the collection are transcriptions of two extended public dialogues with Spivak on theology and religion in general. A further dozen essays appropriate Spivak's work for theological and ethical reflection. The volume is also significant for the larger field of postcolonial studies in that it is the first to focus centrally on Spivak's immensely suggestive and vital concept of "planetarity."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introductions
A Tentative Topography of Postcolonial Theology Mayra Rivera and Stephen D. Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Situating Spivak Stephen D. Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
What Has Love to Do with It? Planetarity, Feminism, and Theology Kwok Pui-Lan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
The Love We Cannot Not Want: A Response to Kwok Pui-lan Laurel C. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Conversations
Love: A Conversation Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Serene Jones, Catherine Keller, Kwok Pui-Lan and Stephen D. Moore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
The Pterodactyl in the Margins: Detranscendentalizing Postcolonial Theology Susan Abraham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Lost in Translation? Tracing Linguistic and Economic Transactions in Three Texts Tat-Siong Benny Liew Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Ghostly Encounters: Spirits, Memory, and the Holy Ghost Mayra Rivera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Extempore Response to Susan Abraham, Tat-siong Benny Liew, and Mayra Rivera Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Appropriations
Planetary Subjects after the Death of Geography Jenna Tiitsman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Love’s Multiplicity: Jeong and Spivak’s Notes toward Planetary Love W. Anne Joh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Not Quite Not Agents of Oppression: Liberative Praxis for North American White Women Lydia York Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Planetary Sightings? Negotiating Sexual Differences in Globalization’s Shadow Ellen T. Armour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
‘‘Effects of Grace’’: Detranscendentalizing Erin Runions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Comparative Theology after ‘‘Religion’’ John J. Thatamanil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
Toward a Cosmopolitan Theology: Constructing Public Theology from the Future Namsoon Kang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	258
Pax Terra and Other Utopias? Planetarity, Cosmopolitanism, and the Kingdom of God Dhawn B. Martin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Crip/tography: Of Karma and Cosmopolis Sharon V. Betcher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	411
INDEX OF NAMES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	415

Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 440

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Published: March 24, 2022
ISBN: 9780823292363