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Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh : A Secular Theology for the Global City / Sharon V. Betcher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823253906
  • 9780823253937
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 202.09173/2 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.G55 B48 2014
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Crip/tography -- 2. “Fearful Symmetry”: Between Theological Aesthetics and Global Economics -- 3. Breathing through the Pain: Engaging the Cross as Tonglen, Taking to the Streets as Mendicants -- 4. In the Ruin of God -- 5. The Ballet of the Good City Sidewalk: Releasing the Optics of Disability into Social Flesh -- 6. “Take My Yoga Upon You” (Matt 11:29): A Spirit/ual Pli for the Global City -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidance for moving amidst the affective dynamics that animate the streets of the global cities now amassing around our planet.Here theology turns decidedly secular. In urban medieval Europe, seculars were uncloistered persons who carried their spiritual passion and sense of an obligated life into daily circumambulations of the city. Seculars lived in the city, on behalf of the city, but—contrary to the new profit economy of the time—with a different locus of value: spirit.Betcher argues that for seculars today the possibility of a devoted life, the practice of felicity in history, still remains. Spirit now names a necessary “prosthesis,” a locus for regenerating the elemental commons of our interdependent flesh and thus for cultivating spacious and fearless empathy, forbearance, and generosity.Her theological poetics, though based in Christianity, are frequently in conversation with other religions resident in our postcolonial cities.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Crip/tography -- 2. “Fearful Symmetry”: Between Theological Aesthetics and Global Economics -- 3. Breathing through the Pain: Engaging the Cross as Tonglen, Taking to the Streets as Mendicants -- 4. In the Ruin of God -- 5. The Ballet of the Good City Sidewalk: Releasing the Optics of Disability into Social Flesh -- 6. “Take My Yoga Upon You” (Matt 11:29): A Spirit/ual Pli for the Global City -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Drawing on philosophical reflection, spiritual and religious values, and somatic practice, Spirit and the Obligation of Social Flesh offers guidance for moving amidst the affective dynamics that animate the streets of the global cities now amassing around our planet.Here theology turns decidedly secular. In urban medieval Europe, seculars were uncloistered persons who carried their spiritual passion and sense of an obligated life into daily circumambulations of the city. Seculars lived in the city, on behalf of the city, but—contrary to the new profit economy of the time—with a different locus of value: spirit.Betcher argues that for seculars today the possibility of a devoted life, the practice of felicity in history, still remains. Spirit now names a necessary “prosthesis,” a locus for regenerating the elemental commons of our interdependent flesh and thus for cultivating spacious and fearless empathy, forbearance, and generosity.Her theological poetics, though based in Christianity, are frequently in conversation with other religions resident in our postcolonial cities.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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