The Colonial (Dis)order and the (Im)possibility of Redemption
Jeong , Abolition, and Living from the “End of the World”
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12662433 |
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| Authors | Benjamin G Robinson (Southern Methodist University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-76 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-29 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1462317x.2017.1405624 |
| OpenAlex | W2768756882 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This article develops the oppositional edge of postcolonial theologies by way of Frantz Fanon’s anti-colonial desire for the “end of the world.” It connects W. Anne Joh’s elaboration of jeong – the living in excess of (neo)colonial violence – to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s anti-fascist critique of the godlike desires of European humanism (the sicut deus). The overall aim of the article is to clarify and assess what is at stake in a project of eschatological decolonialism. What might it mean to think theologically about salvation as abolition? And what might it look like to live from the “end of the world?”
Colonialism · Humanism · Order (exchange · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Christian Theology and Mission · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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