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What does postcoloniality have to do with sacramentality? How do diasporic lives and imaginaries shape the course of postcolonial sacramental theology? Neither postcolonial theorists nor sacramental theologians have hitherto sought to engage in a sustained dialogue with one another. In this trailblazing volume, Kristine Suna-Koro brings postcolonialism, diaspora discourse, and Christian sacramental theology into a mutually critical and constructive transdisciplinary conversation. Dialoguing with thinkers as diverse as Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak as well as Francis D'Sa, S.J., Martin Luther,

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-308).

Introduction -- Prelude I -- Prelude II -- Prelude III -- Diasporic sights and sounds: a fugue of Christ, blue cornflowers, and wild carrots -- Postcoloniality, postcolonialism, and decoloniality: beyond revolutions and reversals -- Diasporic lives and hybrid homing desires -- Braiding a diasporic imaginary -- Ethics, theology, and the postcolonial fabric of imagination -- Postcolonial hydridity: elusive, treacherous, and potentially liberating -- Voyaging into the third space of contrapuntality with Edward Said -- Revisiting colonized baptismal waters: sacraments under the gaze of postcolonial vigilance -- On the postcolonial theopolitics of sacramentality -- Sacraments and postcolonial planetarity: pursuing a nascent resonance -- Toward a sacramental pluriverse: on sacraments as the ethical ciphers of postcolonial transcendence -- Toward a sacramental third space: Christ and the contrapuntal hybridity of peace -- Sacramental transformation and the ethical powerscapes of postcolonial Eucharist -- Coda: Postcolonial ressourcement and diasporic method: reimagining the sacramental signature of all things.