Misbegotten Anguish : A Theology and Ethics of Violence

by Kirk-Duggan, Cheryl A.

• ISBN13: 9780827223271
• ISBN10: 0827223277
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Chalice Pr

Summary

Cheryl Kirk-Duggan calls on Christians to take seriously how their tradition has participated in violence while preaching against it. She uses theology, ethics, and cultural studies to explore such key issues as war, homicide, suicide, and scapegoating.

Author Biography

Cheryl Kirk-Duggan is director of the Center for Women and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Perceiving and Baptizing Violence
Constructing the Kaleidoscope: Introducing Violence and Justice--A Womanist Reading	p. 3
Contemplating the Mimetic Product of Violence: The Scapegoat	p. 29
Power, Control, and Loss
Contracting Mechanistic Muscles: War and Colonialism	p. 65
Cheating, Defaming, and Abusing Eve: Sexism, Seduction, Gender, and Domestic Violence	p. 95
Conjugating Elitism: Classism and Caste-ism	p. 127
Powers and Pathologies
Corrupting the Rainbow: Racism Personified	p. 153
Choosing Hypocrisy, Betrayal, and Miseducation: Our Complicity in Violence	p. 183
Prophetic Promises
Changing Creation: A Prolegomenon to a Theology and Ethics of Violence	p. 207
Index	p. 221
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