Rhizomatic Reflections: Discourses on Religion and Theology - Softcover

Markose, Baiju

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532630840 ISBN 13: 9781532630842

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2018

Synopsis

Fecund philosophical reflections on the conceptual metaphor "rhizome" invite us to reformulate the theological engagements today with a renewed spirit. Notably, the subaltern theological engagements make use of this new move in gleaning the fruits of heterogeneity, multiple origins, horizontality, interconnections, and intersectionality. This conscious rhizomatic move is exemplified as a constructive post-colonial move and a useful tool for meaningful subaltern resistance. This move takes us beyond the entrapment of western binary opposites to the challenging cultural and political spaces of hybridity and liminality. Uncovering the underrated cultural and political spaces of subaltern religious experience is an apocalyptic/eschatological activity. Such an apocalyptic activity demands deep theological meditation and committed attention toward the multiple and heterogeneous themes like Casteism, Vedic taxonomy, Dalit spatial discourses, sacred grove, ecological crisis, racism, globalization, neoliberalism, infinite debt, resistance, etc. Such trans-disciplinary reflections contribute to the larger body of subaltern theopoetics. As a rhizome connects any point to any other point, these themes are interconnected, and intertwined rhizomatically!

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About the Authors

Baiju Markose is a PhD research scholar at Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago. He is an ordained minister of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar and the author of Ritual and Rhythm of Life (2015) and Treasuring the Scars in Our Hands (2006). He is the winner of American Academy of Religion (AAR/Midwest Region) Marion McFarland Award and Best Graduate Paper Award for the year 2017.

Linda E. Thomas is Professor of Theology and Anthropology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and is the author of Under the Canopy: Ritual Process and Spiritual Resilience in South Africa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1532630840
• ISBN 13: 9781532630842
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148