"This is a book about what it would mean to be a bit moody in the
midst of being theological and political. Its framing assumption is
that neoliberal economics relies on narratives in which not being
in the right mood means a cursed existence." So begins Grave
Attending: A Political Theology for the Unredeemed, which mounts a
challenge to neoliberal narratives of redemption. Mapping the
contemporary state of political theology, Karen Bray brings it to
bear upon secularism, Marxist thought, affect theory, queer
temporality, and other critical modes as a way to refuse separating
one's personal mood from the political or philosophical.
Introducing the concept of bipolar time, she offers a critique of
neoliberal temporality by countering capitalist priorities of
efficiency through the experiences of mania and depression. And it
is here Bray makes her crucial critical turn, one that values the
power of those who are unredeemed in the eyes of liberal
democracy-those too slow, too mad, too depressed to be of
productive worth-suggesting forms of utopia in the poetics of crip
theory and ordinary habit. Through performances of what she calls
grave attending-being brought down by the gravity of what is and
listening to the ghosts of what might have been-Bray asks readers
to choose collective care over individual overcoming. Grave
Attending brings critical questions of embodiment, history, and
power to the fields of political theology, radical theology,
secular theology, and the continental philosophy of religion.
Scholars interested in addressing the lack of intersectional
engagement within these fields will find this work invaluable. As
the forces of neoliberalism demand we be productive, efficient,
happy, and flexible in order to be deemed worthy subjects, Grave
Attending offers another model for living politically, emotionally,
and theologically. Instead of submitting to such a market-driven
concept of salvation, this book insists that we remain mad, moody,
and unredeemed. Drawing on theories of affect, temporality,
disability, queerness, work, and race, Bray persuades us that
embodying more just forms of sociality comes not in spite of
irredeemable moods, but through them.
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