Resisting Occupation
eBook - PDF

Resisting Occupation

A Global Struggle for Liberation

  1. 263 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Resisting Occupation

A Global Struggle for Liberation

About this book

In Resisting Occupation, international scholars discuss the radical denial of human flourishing caused by the occupation of mind, body, spirit, and land. They explore how religious perspectives can be, and often are, constructed by occupiers to justify their actions, perpetuate exploitation, and domesticate indigenous landholders. In the name of Christianization and civilization, which has proven to be a global phenomenon beyond time and space, a consistent domestication process is established. The colonized are taught to want, to yearn for, and to embrace their occupation, seeing themselves through the eyes of their colonizers. Writing from different spots around the globe, the scholars of this book demonstrate how occupation, a synonym for empire, is manifested within their social context and reveal unity in their struggle for liberation. Recognizing that where there is oppression, there is resistance, the contributors turn to religion. While questioning the logic, rationale, theology, and epistemology of the empire's religion, they nonetheless seek the liberative response of resistance – at times using the very religion of the occupiers.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I: Occupying Minds
  5. 1. Toward an Ethics para Joder
  6. 2. ā€œImagined Occupationā€ and the Occupation of the National Imaginary
  7. 3. City Gate and Homeland Imagination
  8. 4. Toward a Cross-Border Imagination
  9. 5. The Occupation of Theological Minds
  10. Part II: Occupying Bodies
  11. 6. The Construction of Religious Hybrid Identities
  12. 7. The Boys in the Mirror
  13. Part III: Occupying Spirit
  14. 8. The Devil that Occupies US
  15. 9. The Motherly Spirit
  16. 10. Resistance and Reconciliation through the Arts
  17. 11. Beauty in the Rubble?
  18. Part IV: Occupying Land
  19. 12. Occupation in North America
  20. 13. From Empire to Independent Composite Successor States
  21. 14. Palestine, Zionism, and Global Struggle
  22. 15. The Re-Reading of the Exodus Narrative
  23. Conclusion
  24. Index
  25. About the Contributors