Religion and Power

Religion has power structures that require and justify collaboration with empires. Concentrating on Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism, this book also asserts that religion has subversive energies that undermine its power plays.

List of contents

Foreword

Collin Cowan

1. Stand Down, Sit Up, and Talanoa

Jione Havea

Part One: Dare to Discern

2. Rescuing Christian Faith Traditions from Empire

Deenabandhu Manchala

3. Transforming Discipleship: Faith, Love, and Hope after Empire

Jooseop Keum

4. Turn to the World: A Mandate for Orthodox Theology

Eleni Kasselouri-Hatzivassiliadi

5. Appropriation of Religious Symbols as Political Capital

M. P. Joseph

6. Empire, Deep Solidarity, and the Future of Resistance

Joerg Rieger

Part Two: Dare to Disturb

7. Chanting Down the Shitstem-Resistance with Anansi and Rastafari Optics

Michael Jagessar

8. The Chicano Student Movement as Religious and The Spiritual Plan of Aztlán as Scriptural and Utopian

Jacqueline M. Hidalgo

9. Religion as the Ethico-Political Practice of Justice: Ambedkar as Guide

Y.T. Vinayaraj

10. Babblers to the Rabble, Prophets to the Powerful: Mission in the Context of Empire

Allan Aubrey Boesak

11. (Global) Climate Crisis and (Detroit) Water Struggle: "Re-Schooling" Christianity through Indigenous Challenge

James W. Perkinson

12. Redeeming Country: Indigenous Peoples under Empires and Nation States

Mark G. Brett

About the author

Jione Havea is a research fellow at Trinity Theological College (New Zealand) and honorary research fellow at Charles Sturt University's Public and Contextual Theology Research Center (Australia).

Product details

• Authors: Jione Havea
• Assisted by: Jione Havea (Editor), Havea Jione (Editor), Collin Cowan (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781978703568
• ISBN: 978-1-978703-56-8
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Theology in the Age of Empire
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Religion & politics, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, Religion and Politics, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Religion, Politics & State, Biblical Studies & Exegesis