Political Ressourcement: Decolonizing through Retrieval in African Political Theologies
Political ressourcement is a strategy for decolonizing political imaginations by drawing on means of human organization that predate European colonialism. One such resource in this regard is the millennia-old tradition of compositional politics in sub-Saharan Africa. The compositional tradition’s in...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
2023
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Political theology
Jahr: 2023, Band: 24, Heft: 2, Seiten: 148-163 |
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Afrika
/ Entkolonialisierung
/ Politische Theorie
/ Ressourcenpolitik
/ Politische Theologie
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| RelBib Classification: | CG Christentum und Politik KAH Kirchengeschichte 1648-1913; Neuzeit KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit KBN Subsahara-Afrika ZB Soziologie ZC Politik |
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Decolonial
B Paul Landau B African political theology B Compositional B Hybridity |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Political ressourcement is a strategy for decolonizing political imaginations by drawing on means of human organization that predate European colonialism. One such resource in this regard is the millennia-old tradition of compositional politics in sub-Saharan Africa. The compositional tradition’s insights for contemporary political theology are twofold. First, basing a community’s identity upon amalgamation rather than exclusion offers a powerful means of building lasting political association. Second, such amalgamation has become a proven way of challenging colonial politics’ exclusivist understandings of tribal, ethnic, and racial identities. In commending this tradition as a means of political ressourcement, the essay draws from Paul Landau’s historical research of the South African highveld. It engages a wider conversation in African studies on the compositional tradition, then shows how this tradition has proven a vibrant strategy for decolonial action for twentieth and twenty-first century Christian churches. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2021.1970089 |