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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