
Toward a Micro-Political Theology
A Dialogue between Michel Foucault and Liberation Theologies
- 204 pages
- English
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Toward a Micro-Political Theology
A Dialogue between Michel Foucault and Liberation Theologies
About this book
Has liberation theology reached a dead end? Has the time come to propose another strategy of political resistance, one that considers and takes account of the complexity of power relationships in daily life? How can we explore the deeper meaning of freedom and liberation? This book begins with a reflection on the "failure" of social movements and revolutions and a review of the methodologies of liberation theologies. Offering a brand-new micro-political theology, it attempts to demonstrate how Michel Foucault can help us recognize the limitations of our standard definitions of liberation. Continuing Foucault's critical engagement with desire, sexuality, and the body, this book opens a fresh dialogue between Althaus-Reid's indecent theology, Latin American liberation theology, and radical orthodoxy, leading to an exploration of how that dialogue can remind us that spirituality and the transformative practice of the self can themselves be fully political. It also urges prayer as both the radical root of political resistance and its action.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword: The Many Sides of Foucault’s Transformation
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Betrayal of Social Movements and Revolution
- Chapter 2: The Failure of Liberation Theologies
- Chapter 3: Doing Liberation Theology with Foucault
- Chapter 4: The Critiques of Political Theologies of Sexuality and Desire
- Chapter 5: Prayer, Asceticism, and Subjectification as Resistance
- Concluding Reflections: Toward a Micro-Political Theology
- Bibliography