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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Main Author: Azaransky, Sarah (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center [2017]
In: 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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