Impossible, Inadequate, and Indispensable: What North American Christian Social Ethics Can Learn from Postcolonial Theory
Postcolonial theory ought to inform how we do Christian social ethics in North America. This essay engages postcolonial critiques of the "impossibility" that intellectuals can address the needs of unrepresented groups (Spivak). It also examines postcolonial theorists' move to localize...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophy Documentation Center
[2017]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-63 |
| RelBib Classification: | FD Contextual theology KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBQ North America NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics VA Philosophy ZC Politics in general |
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| Summary: | Postcolonial theory ought to inform how we do Christian social ethics in North America. This essay engages postcolonial critiques of the "impossibility" that intellectuals can address the needs of unrepresented groups (Spivak). It also examines postcolonial theorists' move to localize European thinking and, in so doing, to recognize European thinking as both "indispensable and inadequate" (Chakrabarty) to justice-oriented work. The essay engages contemporary post-colonial theory with the writing and work of Howard Thurman, William Stuart Nelson, and Bayard Rustin, midcentury black American Christian intellectuals, in order to show how postcolonial theory may be useful for contemporary Christian social ethics. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/sce.2017.0004 |