Enfleshing Freedom
by Copeland, M. ShawnFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2009-11-01
Publisher(s): Fortress Pr
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Summary
The achievement of our humanity comes about only through immersion in concrete, visceral, embodied relational experience; yet for many human beings that achievement is stamped by the struggle against oppression in history, society, and religion.
Author Biography
M. Shawn Copeland is Associate Professor of Theology at Boston College, a former President of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and a former Convenor of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium. Copeland has taught theology at Marquette University and Yale University Divinity School. She has also served as adjunct Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans. She has lectured extensively in the United States as well as in Australia, Belgium, Canada, and Nigeria.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Body, Race, and Being | p. 7 |
| Making a Body Black: Inventing Race | p. 9 |
| Skin as Horizon: Theorizing Race and Racism | p. 12 |
| Seeing Body | p. 15 |
| Being Black | p. 19 |
| Black Body Theology | p. 22 |
| Enfleshing Freedom | p. 23 |
| Objectifying the Body | p. 29 |
| The Subject of Freedom | p. 38 |
| The Freedom of the Subject | p. 46 |
| Enfleshing Freedom-Return to the Clearing | p. 51 |
| Marking the Body of Jesus, the Body of Christ | p. 55 |
| Jesus and Empire | p. 58 |
| The Body in the New Imperial (Dis)Order | p. 65 |
| Marking the (Queer) Flesh of Christ | p. 78 |
| (Re)Marking the Flesh of the Church | p. 81 |
| Turning the Subject | p. 85 |
| A New Anthropological Question | p. 86 |
| A New Anthropological Subject | p. 90 |
| Solidarity | p. 92 |
| Eschatological Healing of "the Body of Broken Bones" | p. 101 |
| Eucharist, Racism, and Black Bodies | p. 107 |
| Wounding the Body of a People | p. 110 |
| Terrorizing the Body of a People | p. 117 |
| Eucharistic Solidarity: Embodying Christ | p. 124 |
| Epilogue | p. 129 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 131 |
| Notes | p. 135 |
| Index | p. 177 |
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