Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh : : A Secular Theology for the Global City / / Sharon V. Betcher.

Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidance for moving amidst the affective dynamics that animate the streets of the global cities now amassing around our planet.Here theology turns decidedly sec...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Crip/tography
  • 2. “Fearful Symmetry”: Between Theological Aesthetics and Global Economics
  • 3. Breathing through the Pain: Engaging the Cross as Tonglen, Taking to the Streets as Mendicants
  • 4. In the Ruin of God
  • 5. The Ballet of the Good City Sidewalk: Releasing the Optics of Disability into Social Flesh
  • 6. “Take My Yoga Upon You” (Matt 11:29): A Spirit/ual Pli for the Global City
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index