Michel Foucault And Theology

Author : James Bernauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
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Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351917803

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Whilst Foucault's work has become a major strand of postmodern theology, the wider relevance of his work for theology still remains largely unexamined. Foucault both engages the Christian tradition and critically challenges its disciplinary regime. Michel Foucault and Theology brings together a selection of essays by leading Foucault scholars on a variety of themes within the history, thought and practice of theology. Revealing the diverse ways that the work of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) has been employed to rethink theology in terms of power, discourse, sexuality and the politics of knowledge, the authors examine power and sexuality in the church in late antiquity, (Castelli, Clark, Schuld), raise questions about the relationship between theology and politics (Bernauer, Leezenberg, Caputo), consider new challenges to the nature of theological knowledge in terms of Foucault's critical project (Flynn, Cutrofello, Beadoin, Pinto) and rethink theology in terms of Foucault's work on the history of sexuality (Carrette, Jordan, Mahon). This book demonstrates, for the first time, the influence and growing importance of Foucault's work for contemporary theology.

Author : Jonathan Tran
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567181626

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Foucault and Theology by Jonathan Tran Pdf

Near the end of his life, Michel Foucault turned his attention to the early church Fathers. He did so not for anything like a return to God but rather because he found in those sources alternatives for re-imaging the self. And though Foucault never seriously entertained Christianity beyond theorizing its aesthetic style one might argue that Christian practices like confession or Eucharist share family resemblances to Foucaultian sensibilities. This book will explain how to do theology in light of Foucault, or more precisely, to read Foucault as if God mattered. Therefore, it will seek to articulate practices like confession, prayer, and so on as techniques for the self, situate "the church as politics" within present constellations of power, disclose theological knowledges as modes of critical intervention, or what Foucault called archaeology, and conceptualize Christian existence in time through mnemonic practices of genealogy.

Author : James Bernauer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351917810

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Michel Foucault and Theology by James Bernauer Pdf

Whilst Foucault's work has become a major strand of postmodern theology, the wider relevance of his work for theology still remains largely unexamined. Foucault both engages the Christian tradition and critically challenges its disciplinary regime. Michel Foucault and Theology brings together a selection of essays by leading Foucault scholars on a variety of themes within the history, thought and practice of theology. Revealing the diverse ways that the work of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) has been employed to rethink theology in terms of power, discourse, sexuality and the politics of knowledge, the authors examine power and sexuality in the church in late antiquity, (Castelli, Clark, Schuld), raise questions about the relationship between theology and politics (Bernauer, Leezenberg, Caputo), consider new challenges to the nature of theological knowledge in terms of Foucault's critical project (Flynn, Cutrofello, Beadoin, Pinto) and rethink theology in terms of Foucault's work on the history of sexuality (Carrette, Jordan, Mahon). This book demonstrates, for the first time, the influence and growing importance of Foucault's work for contemporary theology.

Author : Jeremy Carrette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134632275

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Foucault and Religion by Jeremy Carrette Pdf

Foucault and Religion is the first major study of Michel Foucault in relation and response to Religion. Jeremy Carrette offers us a challenging new look at Foucault's work and addresses a religious dimension that has previously been neglected. We see that prior to Foucault's infamous unpublished volume in the 'History of Sexuality', on the theme of Christianity, there is a complex religious sub-text which anticipates this final unseen work. Jeremy Carrette argues that Foucault offers a twofold critique of Christianity by bringing the body and sexuality into religious practice and exploring a political spirituality of the self. He shows us that Foucault's creation of a body theology through the death of God, reveals how religious beliefs reflect the sexual body, questions the notion of a mystical archaeology and exposes the political technology of confession. Anyone interested in understanding Foucault's thought in a new light will find this book a truly fascinating read.

Author : Petra Carlsson Redell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780429817304

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Foucault, Art, and Radical Theology by Petra Carlsson Redell Pdf

Michel Foucault wrote prolifically on many topics including, art, religion, and politics. He also eloquently articulated how power structures are formed and how they also might assist resistance and emancipation. This book uses the hermeneutical lens of Foucault’s writings on art to examine the performative, material, and political aspects of contemporary theology. The borderland between philosophy, theology, and art is explored through Foucault’s analyses of artists such as Diego Velázquez, Édouard Manet, René Magritte, Paul Rebeyrolle, and Gerard Fromanger. Here special focus is placed on performativity and materiality—or what the book terms the mystery of things. At successive junctures, the book discovers a postrepresentational critique of transcendence; an enigmatic material sacramentality; playful theopolitical accounts of the transformative force of stupidity and nonsense; and political imagery in motion enabling theological interpretations of contemporary collectives such as Pussy Riot and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. In conversation with contemporary thinkers including Catherine Keller, Louise-Marie Chauvet, John Caputo, Daniel Barber, Mark C. Taylor, Jeffrey W. Robbins, and Mattias Martinson, the book outlines this source of inspiration for contemporary radical theology. This is a book with a fresh and original take on Foucault, art, and theology. As such, it will have great appeal to scholars and academics in theology, religion and the arts, the philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and aesthetics.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136685859

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Religion and Culture by Michel Foucault Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Yin-An Chen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725294905

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Toward a Micro-Political Theology by Yin-An Chen Pdf

Has liberation theology reached a dead end? Has the time come to propose another strategy of political resistance, one that considers and takes account of the complexity of power relationships in daily life? How can we explore the deeper meaning of freedom and liberation? This book begins with a reflection on the “failure” of social movements and revolutions and a review of the methodologies of liberation theologies. Offering a brand-new micro-political theology, it attempts to demonstrate how Michel Foucault can help us recognize the limitations of our standard definitions of liberation. Continuing Foucault’s critical engagement with desire, sexuality, and the body, this book opens a fresh dialogue between Althaus-Reid’s indecent theology, Latin American liberation theology, and radical orthodoxy, leading to an exploration of how that dialogue can remind us that spirituality and the transformative practice of the self can themselves be fully political. It also urges prayer as both the radical root of political resistance and its action.

Author : David Galston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773537767

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Archives and the Event of God by David Galston Pdf

An innovative approach to thinking about religion through post-structuralist concepts.

Author : Petra Carlsson Redell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Art and religion
ISBN : 1934542571

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The Mystery of Things by Petra Carlsson Redell Pdf

Author : J. Joyce Schuld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015057625439

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Foucault and Augustine by J. Joyce Schuld Pdf

Using Augustine as a conversation partner, this text explores the value of Michel Foucault's controversial writings for theologians, ethicists, philosophers and cultural theorists. It demonstrates the possibilities and difficulties of applying Foucault's social criticisms within Christian contexts.

Author : Steven G. Ogden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317038191

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The Church, Authority, and Foucault by Steven G. Ogden Pdf

The Church, Authority, and Foucault addresses the problem of the Church’s enmeshment with sovereign power, which can lead to marginalization. Breaking new ground, Ogden uses Foucault’s approach to power and knowledge to interpret the church leader’s significance as the guardian of knowledge. This can become privileged knowledge, under the spell of sovereign power, and with the complicity of clergy and laity in search of sovereigns. Inevitably, such a culture leads to a sense of entitlement for leaders and conformity for followers. All in the name of obedience. The Church needs to change in order to fulfil its vocation. Instead of a monarchy, what about Church as an open space of freedom? This book, then, is a theological enterprise which cultivates practices of freedom for the sake of the other. This involves thinking differently by exploring catalysts for change, which include critique, space, imagination, and wisdom. In the process, Ogden uses a range of sources, analysing discourse, gossip, ritual, territory, masculinity, and pastoral power. In all, the work of Michel Foucault sets the tone for a fresh ecclesiological critique that will appeal to theologians and clergy alike.

Author : Stephen Alan Ray
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041054557

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The Modern Soul by Stephen Alan Ray Pdf

Author : Henrique Pinto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000100839

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Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue by Henrique Pinto Pdf

Foucault, Christianity and Interfaith Dialogue develops a new model for interfaith dialogue using the work of the French historian of ideas, Michel Foucault. The author argues that it is the injustice done to the 'Other' by Roman Catholic, Protestant and other centred and unitary models of religious pluralism that allows the introduction of Foucault's de-centring of transcendence and human reason as an alternative model for understanding religious diversity and the role it ought to play, in the constitution of the self and the making of society. This Foucaultian approach provides a new direction for interfaith dialogue in the modern world and leads to an ethical rather than a nihilistic position while fostering a non-unitary theology of religious pluralism and an open-textured process of self-transformation. The author's original and imaginative application and expansion of Foucault's concept of the 'More' from The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) makes important and original contributions to academic work on Foucault and contemporary theology.

Author : Steven G. Ogden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000451580

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Violence, Entitlement, and Politics by Steven G. Ogden Pdf

This book is an exercise in political theology, exploring the problem of gender- based violence by focusing on violent male subjects and the issue of entitlement. It addresses gender-based violence in familial and military settings before engaging with a wider political context. The chapters draw on sources ranging from Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Étienne Balibar to Rowan Williams and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Entitlement is theorized and interpreted as a gender pattern, predisposing subjects towards controlling behaviour and/or violent actions. Steven Ogden develops a theology of transformation, stressing immanence. He examines entitled subjects, predisposed to violence, where transformation requires a limit-experience that wrenches the subject from itself. The book then reflects on today’s pervasive strongman politics, where political rationalities foster proprietorial thinking and entitlement gender patterns, and how theology is called to develop counter-discourses and counter-practices.

Author : Sergey S. Horujy
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802872265

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Practices of the Self and Spiritual Practices by Sergey S. Horujy Pdf

In this book Sergey Horujy undertakes a novel comparative analysis of Foucault s theory of practices of the self and the Eastern Orthodox ascetical tradition of Hesychasm, revealing great affinity between these two radical subject-less approaches to anthropology. As he facilitates the dialogue between the two, he offers both an original treatment of ascetical and mystical practices and an up-to-date interpretation of Foucault that goes against the grain of mainstream scholarship. In the second half of the book Horujy transitions from the dialogue with Foucault to his own work of Christian philosophy, rooted in -- but not limited to -- the Eastern Christian philosophical and theological tradition. Horujy s thinking exemplifies the postsecular nature of our contemporary period and serves as a powerful invitation to think beyond religious-secular divides in philosophy and Eastern-Western divides in intellectual history.