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After the civil rights and anti-apartheid struggles, are we truly living in post-racial, post-apartheid societies where the word struggle is now out of place? Do we now truly realize that, as President Obama said, the situation for the Palestinian people is "intolerable"? This book argues that this is not so, and asks, "What has Soweto to do with Ferguson, New York with Cape Town, Baltimore with Ramallah?"
With South Africa, the United States, and Palestine as the most immediate points of reference, it seeks to explore the global wave of renewed struggles and nonviolent revolutions led largely by young people and the challenges these pose to prophetic theology and the church. It invites the reader to engage in a trans-Atlantic conversation on freedom, justice, peace, and dignity.
These struggles for justice reflect the proposal the book discusses: there are pharaohs on both sides of the blood-red waters. Central to this conversation are the issues of faith and struggles for justice; the call for reconciliation--its possibilities and risks; the challenges of and from youth leadership; prophetic resistance; and the resilient, audacious hope without which no struggle has a future.
The book argues that these revolutions will only succeed if they are claimed, embraced, and driven by the people.
In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid
struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to
the church in that society. This book is a call to discern new
moments of crisis, discernment and kairos, and respond with
prophetic resistance to global injustice.
In 1985, the Kairos Document emerged out of the anti-apartheid
struggle as a devastating critique of apartheid and a challenge to
the church in that society. This book is a call to discern new
moments of crisis, discernment and kairos, and respond with
prophetic resistance to global injustice.
Since the spectacular rise of South Africa's Nelson Mandela and the
remarkable election of Barack Obama as president of the United
States, the phrase "hopeful politics" has dominated our public
discourse. But what happens when that hope disappoints? Can it be
salvaged? What is the relationship between faith, hope, and
politics? In this book Allan Boesak meditates on what it really
means to hope in light of present political realities and growing
human pain. He argues that hope comes to life only in situations of
vulnerability - in struggles for justice, dignity, and the life of
the Earth. Dare We Speak of Hope? is a critical, provocative,
prophetic - and, above all, hopeful - book.
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Religion and Power (Paperback)
Jione Havea; Contributions by Allan Aubrey Boesak, Mark G. Brett; Foreword by Collin Cowan; Contributions by Jacqueline M Hidalgo, …
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R1,404
Discovery Miles 14 040
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Religion has power structures that require and justify its
existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with
other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration.
Along this line, this book affirms that one could see and study the
power structures and power relations of a religion in and through
the missions of empires. Empires rise and roam with the blessings
and protections of religious power structures (e.g., scriptures,
theologies, interpretations, traditions) that in return carry,
propagate and justify imperial agendas. Thus, to understand the
relation between religion and power requires one to also study the
relation between religion and empires. Christianity is the religion
that receives the most deliberation in this book, with some
attention to power structures and power relations in Hinduism and
Buddhism. The cross-cultural and inter-national contributors share
the conviction that something within each religion resists and
subverts its power structures and collaborations. The authors
discern and interrogate the involvements of religion with empires
past and present, political and ideological, economic and
customary, systemic and local. The upshot is that the book troubles
religious teachings and practices that sustain, as well as profit
from, empires.
Prompted by the 2017 commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the
Protestant Reformation, this book examines the legacy of Martin
Luther in the life, work, and reception of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the
most widely read modern Lutheran theologian. Framing the
commemoration of the Reformation in conversation with Bonhoeffer's
legacy places much more than Bonhoeffer's connection to Luther at
stake. Given the fraught relationship of the Lutheran Bonhoeffer
with the German Protestant Church under National Socialism, the
question inevitably arises: "What happened to Luther's church in
Germany?" This in turn prompts the question: "How did the
Protestant tradition play out in public life in other nations?" And
these historical issues in turn encourage reflection on a question
that exercised both Luther and Bonhoeffer: "What will be the shape
of the church in the future?" In these pages, an international
group of scholars and practitioners from both church and state
pursues these questions.
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Religion and Power (Hardcover)
Jione Havea; Contributions by Allan Aubrey Boesak, Mark G. Brett; Foreword by Collin Cowan; Contributions by Jacqueline M Hidalgo, …
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R3,299
Discovery Miles 32 990
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Religion has power structures that require and justify its
existence, spread its influence, and mask its collaboration with
other power structures. Power, like religion, is in collaboration.
Along this line, this book affirms that one could see and study the
power structures and power relations of a religion in and through
the missions of empires. Empires rise and roam with the blessings
and protections of religious power structures (e.g., scriptures,
theologies, interpretations, traditions) that in return carry,
propagate and justify imperial agendas. Thus, to understand the
relation between religion and power requires one to also study the
relation between religion and empires. Christianity is the religion
that receives the most deliberation in this book, with some
attention to power structures and power relations in Hinduism and
Buddhism. The cross-cultural and inter-national contributors share
the conviction that something within each religion resists and
subverts its power structures and collaborations. The authors
discern and interrogate the involvements of religion with empires
past and present, political and ideological, economic and
customary, systemic and local. The upshot is that the book troubles
religious teachings and practices that sustain, as well as profit
from, empires.
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