Much like theology itself, the experience of trauma has the potential to reach into almost any aspect of life, refusing to fit within the tramlines. A follow up to the 2020 volume "Feminist Trauma Theologies", "Bearing Witness" explores further into global, intersectional, and as yet relatively unexplored perspectives. With a particular focus on poverty, gender and sexualities, race and ethnicity, and health in dialogue with trauma theology the book seeks to demonstrate both the far reaching and intersectional nature of trauma, encouraging creative and ground-breaking theological reflections on trauma and constructions of theology in the light of the trauma experience. A unique set of insights into the real-life experience of trauma, the book includes chapters authored by a diverse group of academic theologians, practitioners and activists. The result is a theology which extend far into the public square.

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Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
How to Read this Volume
Section One: Raced Reflections on Trauma Theology
1. Why Black Lives Still Don’t Matter
2. The Trauma of Hybridity
3. Spirit for the Oppressed?: Pentecostalism, the Spirit and Black Trauma
4. Weeping Wounds: Queer Blacksculinity, Trauma and Grief
5. The Madonnas Weep: Weeping, Collective Trauma and Emancipatory Transformations
Section Two: Gender and Sexuality in Dialogue with Trauma Theology
6. Epistemic Injustice Exacerbating Trauma in Christian Theological Treatments of Trans People and People with Intersex Characteristics
7. ‘We Shall Not Be Eaten by Any Lions’: Healing Ugandan Queer Trauma through Creative Contextual Bible Study
8. Un(en)titled? Cissexism, Masculinity and Sexual Violence: Towards a Transfeminist Theological Hermeneutic Beyond Repair
9. Transgressive Bodies: A Constructive Proposal for a Trans*-Centred Trauma Theology
Section Three: Trauma Theology and the Whole Body
10. Autism: An Autoethnography of a Peculiar Trauma
11. The Traumatization of Reproductive Loss in Christian Pro-life Discourse and Rituals
12. A Twelve-Step Guide to Resurrection
13. Attending to the Fragments: The Implications of Trauma Theologies for the Practice of Christian Spiritual Direction
Section Four: Poverty and Privilege in Conversation with Trauma Theology
14. The Grenfell 72: Austerity, Trauma and Liberation Theology
15. Colonization, Trauma and Prayers: Towards a Collective Healing
16. ‘A Stone You Need to Polish’: Affect, Inequality and Responding to Testimonies Under Austerity
There is no ‘After’ with Trauma

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