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Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to
reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism. There are two
contemporary approaches to antiracist theory and practice. The
first emphasizes racial identity to the exclusion of political
economy, making racialized life in America illegible. This
approach's prevalence, in the academy and beyond, now rises to the
level of established doctrine. The second approach views racial
identity as the function of a particular political economy-what is
called "racial capitalism>-and therefore analytically
subordinates racial identity to political economy. Jonathan Tran
develops arguments in favor of this second approach. He does so by
means of an extended analysis of two case studies: a Chinese
migrant settlement in the Mississippi Delta (1868-1969) and the
Redeemer Community Church in the Bayview/Hunters Point section of
San Francisco (1969-present). While his analysis is focused on
particular groups and persons, he uses it to examine more broadly
racial capitalism's processes and commitments at the sites of their
structural and systemic unfolding. In pursuing a research agenda
that pushes beyond the narrow confines of racial identity, Tran
reaches back to trusted modes of analysis that have been obscured
by the prevailing antiracist orthodoxy and proposes reframing
antiracism in terms of a theologically salient account of political
economy.
This is a major contribution to the link between theology and
philosophy, introducing the core ideas of Michel Foucault to
students of theology. Near the end of his life, Michel Foucault
turned his attention to the early church Fathers. He did so not for
anything like a return to God but rather because he found in those
sources alternatives for re-imaging the self. And though Foucault
never seriously entertained Christianity beyond theorizing its
aesthetic style one might argue that Christian practices like
confession or Eucharist share family resemblances to Foucaultian
sensibilities. This book will explain how to do theology in light
of Foucault, or more precisely, to read Foucault as if God
mattered. Therefore, it will seek to articulate practices like
confession, prayer, and so on as techniques for the self, situate
'the church as politics' within present constellations of power,
disclose theological knowledges as modes of critical intervention,
or what Foucault called archaeology, and conceptualize Christian
existence in time through mnemonic practices of genealogy. "The
Philosophy and Theology" series looks at major philosophers and
explores their relevance to theological thought as well as the
response of theology.
Description: David Simon's The Wire lays out before us a city in
which people struggle under the weight of poverty, political
corruption, economic despair, educational collapse, and the drug
trade. This volume explores the various theological, ethical, and
philosophical challenges presented by The Wire. As each season of
The Wire unfolds, the moral complexities of life in the city
deepen, as the failures of one system have unforeseen effects in
other corners of the city. Fleshing out the ongoing tension between
the ""earthly city"" and the City of God, Corners in the City of
God is a theological companion to David Simon's masterpiece,
inviting the reader to wrestle with the implications of belonging
fully to the cities of the world, in all of their splendor and
tragedy.
This is a major contribution to the link between theology and
philosophy, introducing the core ideas of Michel Foucault to
students of theology. Near the end of his life, Michel Foucault
turned his attention to the early church Fathers. He did so not for
anything like a return to God but rather because he found in those
sources alternatives for re-imaging the self. And though Foucault
never seriously entertained Christianity beyond theorizing its
aesthetic style one might argue that Christian practices like
confession or Eucharist share family resemblances to Foucaultian
sensibilities. This book will explain how to do theology in light
of Foucault, or more precisely, to read Foucault as if God
mattered. Therefore, it will seek to articulate practices like
confession, prayer, and so on as techniques for the self, situate
'the church as politics' within present constellations of power,
disclose theological knowledges as modes of critical intervention,
or what Foucault called archaeology, and conceptualize Christian
existence in time through mnemonic practices of genealogy. "The
Philosophy and Theology" series looks at major philosophers and
explores their relevance to theological thought as well as the
response of theology.
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