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Taking It to the Streets - Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance (Hardcover)
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Taking It to the Streets - Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance (Hardcover)
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Taking It to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and
Resistance is an edited volume that explores the critical
intersection of public theology, political theology, and communal
practices of activism and political resistance. This volume
functions as a sister/companion to the text Religion and Science as
Political Theology: Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts and
focuses on public, civic, performative action as a response to
experiences of injustice and diminishments of humanity. There are
periods in a nation's civil history when the tides of social unrest
rise into waves upon waves of public activism and resistance of the
dominant uses of power. In American history, activism and public
action including and extending beyond the Women's Suffrage, the
Million Man March, protests against the Vietnam War, the Civil
Rights Movement, Boston Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, the
Stonewall Rebellion are hallmarks of transitional or liminal
moments in our development as a society. Critical periods marked by
increases in public activism and political resistance are
opportunities for a society to once again decide who we will be as
a people. Will we move towards a more perfect union in which all
persons gain freedom in fulfilling their potential or will we
choose the perceived safety of the status quo and established norms
of power? Whose voices will be heard? Whose will be silenced
through intimidation or harm? Ultimately, these are theological
questions. Like other forms of non-textual research subjects
(movement, dance, performance art), public activism requires a set
of research lenses that are often neglected in theological and
religious studies. Attention to bodies, as a category, performance,
or epistemological vehicle, is sorely lacking so it is no wonder
that attention to the mass of moving bodies in activism is largely
absent. Activism and public political resistance are a hallmark of
our current social webbing and deserve scholarly attention.
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