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In Vulnerability and Resilience, vulnerability is not the final word. Rather, resilience provides the cutting edge and living breath in the stories of subjects who are vulnerable. And they have many stories: stories of being trapped in bodies, teachings, and/or situations that make them (and others like them) vulnerable to discrimination, hatred, and rejection; stories of being trapped because of their bodies, theologies, and/or cultures; and stories of being trapped for no-good reason. For subjects who are vulnerable, life is like a maze of traps, and stories of resilience keep them going.
The contributors to Vulnerability and Resilience refuse to be trapped. At the intersection of body and liberation theologies, they tell their stories in the hope that they will expose cultures that make individuals and communities vulnerable, and that those stories will encourage vulnerable subjects to be resilient and bring change to theological institutions that conserve vulnerability. Because of the location of the contributors-the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, Caribbean, and Oceania-this book is a testimony that vulnerability is present all over the world, and that resilience is a liberating alternative.
List of contents
Foreword
Collin I. Cowan
1. Tell us
Jione Havea
Part One: Dare to (Re)story
2. Stories Telling Bodies: A Self-Disclosing Queer Theology of Sexuality and Vulnerability
Adriaan van Klinken
3. Jesus' Colonized Masculinity in Luke
Karl Hand
4. "I am my Body": Toward a Body-Affirming Faith
Masiiwa Ragies Gunda
5. Utopian Couplings: When Bem Viver Meets Mary
Nienke Pruiksima
6. Eve's Serpent (Gen 3:1-9) Meets Sina's Tuna at Fagogo
Brian F. Kolia
7. Rape Matters: Dinah (Genesis 34) Meets Asifa Bano
Monica J. Melanchthon
Part Two: Dare to (Re)Imagine
8. Bodies, Identities, and Empire
Wanda Deifelt
9. In the Face of Empire: Black Liberation Theology, M.L. King, Jr., and the Jesus Story
Dwight N. Hopkins
10. In the Face of Empire: Postcolonial Theology from the Caribbean
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán
11. Theological Shifts: From Multiculturalisms to Multinaturalisms
Cláudio Carvalhaes
12. Liturgy After the Abuse
Stephen Burns
13. Embodied Epistemologies: Queering the Aca
About the author
Jione Havea is research fellow with Trinity Methodist Theological College (Aotearoa New Zealand) and with the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (Charles Sturt University, Australia).Stephen Burns is professor of liturgical and practical theology at Pilgrim Theological College, Melbourne, Australia.Jione Havea is research fellow with Trinity Methodist Theological College (Aotearoa New Zealand) and with the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (Charles Sturt University, Australia).
Summary
Vulnerability and Resilience takes advantage of the power of stories and storytelling to generate scope and meaning for vulnerable subjects, and brings the visceral and queer leanings of body theology into the arms of liberation theology. As a collective, the contributors lay resilience alongside liberation on the path of theology.
