This groundbreaking book provides an analytical tool to understand how and why evil works in the world as it does. Deconstructing memory, history, and myth as received wisdom, the volume critically examines racism, sexism, poverty, and stereotypes.
Autorentext
EMILIE M. TOWNES is an ordained Baptist clergywoman and the Carolyn Williams Beaird Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, USA. She is also Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African-American Religion and Theology at Yale University, has been elected 2008 President of the American Academy of Religion (AAR), the 15,000-member organization. Townes is the first African-American woman to serve as President of the AAR, which is the world's largest association of scholars who teach or research topics related to religion.
Inhalt
Preface: On Memory Introduction: The Womanist Dancing Mind: Cavorting with Culture and Evil Beginning with Imagination: Proceedings Too Terrible to Relate Vanishing into Limbo: The Moral Dilemma of Identity as Property and Commodity Invisible Things Spoken: Uninterrogated Coloredness Legends as Memories Greater Than Memories: Black Reparations in the United States as Subtext to Empire Wounded in the House of Friends: Religious Values and Public Policy Formation Growing Like Topsy: Solidarity in the Work of Dismantling Evil
Titel
Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil
Autor
EAN
9780230601628
ISBN
978-0-230-60162-8
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
13.11.2006
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.74 MB
Anzahl Seiten
200
Jahr
2006
Untertitel
Englisch
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