Converging on Culture Theologians in Dialogue with Cultural Analysis and Criticism

by Brown, Delwin; Davaney, Sheila Greeve; Tanner, Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9780195144666
• ISBN10: 019514466X
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780195343823
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780195144673
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-10-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural analysis and criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies. This book explores the importance of this shift by bringing together scholars from a variety of theological perspectives to analyze different contemporary theories of culture and cultural movements. The essays here examine the theoretical relationship between theology and cultural studies and then discuss a series of controversial topics that cry out for theological reflection.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xi
Part I. Theoretical Reflections on Culture and Theology
Theology and the Turn to Cultural Analysis	3	(14)
Sheila Greeve Davaney
Loosening the Category That Binds: Modern ``Religion'' and the Promise of Cultural Studies	17	(24)
Linell E. Cady
Refashioning Self and Other: Theology, Academy, and the New Ethnography	41	(15)
Delwin Brown
Theology and the Poetics of Testimony	56	(15)
Rebecca S. Chopp
Secularization and the Worldliness of Theology	71	(18)
Victor Anderson
Part II. Theological Interventions in Cultural Settings
Self (Co-)Constitution: Slave Theology from Everyday Cultural Elements	89	(17)
Dwight N. Hopkins
In the Raw: African American Cultural Memory and Theological Reflection	106	(16)
Anthony B. Pinn
Creating a Liberating Culture: Latinas' Subversive Narratives	122	(18)
Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz
``We Don't See Color Here'': A Case Study in Ecclesial-Cultural Invention	140	(18)
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Cultural Labor and Theological Critique	158	(18)
Serene Jones
Votan-Zapata: Theological Discourse in Zapatista Political Struggle	176	(21)
Mark Taylor
Index	197