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Decolonizing Revelation

A Spatial Reading of the Blues
  • ISBN-13: 9781978700451
  • Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
    Imprint: FORTRESS ACADEMIC
  • By Rufus Burnett Jr.
  • Price: AUD $253.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/05/2018
  • Format: Hardback (244.00mm X 162.00mm) 220 pages Weight: 508g
  • Categories: Christianity [HRC]
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At a time when ideas like "post-racial society" and "#BlackLivesMatter" occupy the same space, scholars of black American faith are provided a unique opportunity to regenerate and imagine theological frameworks that confront the epistemic effects of racialization and its confluence with the theological imagination. Decolonizing Revelation contributes to this task by rethinking or "taking a second look" at the cultural production of the blues. Unlike other examinations of the blues that privilege the hermeneutic of race, this work situates the blues spatially, offering a transracial interpretation that looks to establish an option for disentangling racial ideology from the theological imagination. This book dislocates race in particular, and modernity in general, as the primary means by which God's self-disclosure is read across human history. Rather than looking to the experience of antiblack racism as revelational, the work looks to a people group, blues people, and their spatial, sonic, and sensual activities. Following the basic theological premise that God is a God of life, Burnett looks to the spaces where blues life occurs to construct a decolonial option for a theology of revelation.
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Towards a Spatial Reading of the Blues and Revelation: Doing Theology in light of the Colonial Difference Chapter 2: Entanglements of Spatial Imagination in the Delta Region: Recovering a Blues Option for Decolonizing Revelation Chapter 3: The Blues Cosmovision and Decoloniality: Towards a Blues Perspective on Revelation and Knowledge Chapter 4: Revelation and Knowledge in the Delta: A Blues Take on the Modern/Colonial World and its Theological Foundations Conclusion Bibliography About the Author
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