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Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh : A Secular Theology for the Global City.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823253944
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spirit and the Obligation of Social FleshDDC classification:
  • 202.091732
LOC classification:
  • BL65.G55 -- B48 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Crip/tography -- Two "Fearful Symmetry": Between Theological Aesthetics and Global Economics -- Three Breathing through the Pain: Engaging the Cross as Tonglen,Taking to the Streets as Mendicants -- Four In the Ruin of God -- Five The Ballet of the Good City Sidewalk: Releasing the Optics of Disability into Social Flesh -- Six "Take My Yoga Upon You" (Matt 11:29): A Spirit/ual Plifor the Global City -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Spirit and Cosmopolis puts theology on location on the streets of our planet's cities and articulates philosophical reflection worked through religious values for living amidst the affective dynamics of the street. Precarity ensconced in the postcolonial city is critically exposed. "Crip/tography" names a proposed urban choreography, a calculus based on Spirit's generosity, that redresses fear and otherwise advances neighbor love.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Crip/tography -- Two "Fearful Symmetry": Between Theological Aesthetics and Global Economics -- Three Breathing through the Pain: Engaging the Cross as Tonglen,Taking to the Streets as Mendicants -- Four In the Ruin of God -- Five The Ballet of the Good City Sidewalk: Releasing the Optics of Disability into Social Flesh -- Six "Take My Yoga Upon You" (Matt 11:29): A Spirit/ual Plifor the Global City -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Spirit and Cosmopolis puts theology on location on the streets of our planet's cities and articulates philosophical reflection worked through religious values for living amidst the affective dynamics of the street. Precarity ensconced in the postcolonial city is critically exposed. "Crip/tography" names a proposed urban choreography, a calculus based on Spirit's generosity, that redresses fear and otherwise advances neighbor love.

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