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Ekklesia - Three Inquiries in Church and State (Paperback)
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Ekklesia - Three Inquiries in Church and State (Paperback)
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Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State offers a New World
rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on
church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the
Americas the relationship between church and state has not been one
of freedom or separation but one of unstable and adaptable
collusion. Ekklesia sees in the settler states of North and South
America alternative patterns of conjoined religious and political
power, patterns resulting from the undertow of other gods, other
peoples, and other claims to sovereignty. These local challenges
have led to a continuously contested attempt to realize a
church-minded state, a state-minded church, and the systems that
develop in their concert. The shifting borders of their separation
and the episodic conjoining of church and state took new forms in
both theory and practice. The first of a closely linked trio of
essays is by Paul Johnson, and offers a new interpretation of the
Brazilian community gathered at Canudos and its massacre in
1896-97, carried out as a joint church-state mission and spectacle.
In the second essay, Pamela Klassen argues that the colonial
church-state relationship of Canada came into being through local
and national practices that emerged as Indigenous nations responded
to and resisted becoming "possessions" of colonial British America.
Finally, Winnifred Sullivan's essay begins with reflection on the
increased effort within the United States to ban Bibles and
scriptural references from death penalty courtrooms and jury rooms;
she follows with a consideration of the political theological
pressure thereby placed on the jury that decides between life and
death. Through these three inquiries, Ekklesia takes up the
familiar topos of "church and state" in order to render it strange.
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