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This powerful volume provides dynamic ways of constructing theologies of resistance and liberation by engaging with the everyday practices of marginalised communities. In doing so, this collection of theological experts reject abstracted concepts of bodes and taxonomies of race, gender, sexuality, and disability. Readers will find this a dynamic book with a variety of approaches that provide ways of constructing theologies of resistance and liberation. Experiences of marginalisation have provided a powerful reference point for developing theologies of justice and liberation; however, theological and political frameworks often reduce the complexity of lived experiences into categories and themes. Daily practices of resisting and surviving are frequently considered too fleshy, domestic, or banal to be of theological meaning. Therefore, Radford and their coterie of academics draw on understandings of ''the everyday'' in feminist, womanist, Latinx, and decolonial theologies as well as in cultural theory. This allows critical reflection on how theological approaches can shape alternative relations to self, society, and the sacred. In recognising the lived and felt realities of struggling against oppressive colonial and racialised systems, contributors engage with academic and activist debates about the possibilities of remaking social relations and creating other ways of knowing and being. From Black theology to indigenous women tackling climate change to queer clergy in South Africa, this volume holds together differences in contributors'' approaches, modelling the view that there is not just one form of resistance, nor a single approach to constructing theology.>
List of contents
1. Introduction: The Everyday as Resisting Theology (Wren Radford, University of Manchester, UK)
Part I: Knowing the Everyday2. Everyday Extremes: Encountering the Wild in Theological Discourses of Everyday Life (Heather Walton, University of Glasgow, UK)
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La Lucha, Lo Cotidiano, and
Fiesta: On Decolonial Theoethical Insights in Latina/o/x Theologies' (Néstor Medina, Emmanuel College, Canada).
4. Refusal as a Generative Praxis of the Everyday: Lessons from Faith-Based Feminist Political Thought (Anupama Ranawana, University of St Andrews, UK).
Part II: Everyday Praxis as Resisting Inequalities5. Caring Hurts: The Everydayness of Navigating Poverty in the UK (Wren Radford, University of Manchester, UK).
6. Crip Flourishing (Heike Peckruhn, Daemen College, USA).
7. The Everydayness with the Sea Is Liberating: Coastal Everydayness and Liberation Theology (Elia Maggang, University of Manchester, UK)
Part III: Transforming Everyday Practices8. Talking and Doing: Transformative Pedagogy, Black Theology, and Participative Forms of Praxis (Anthony Reddie, University of Oxford, UK).
9. Queer Agency in South Africa: Living Religion in the Rainbow Nation (Megan Robertson, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and Mujahid Osman, Emory University, USA).
10. Blessings for Cyborgs: Everyday Religion as Queer/Crip Technoscience (Max Thornton, Drake University, UK).
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Summary
This powerful volume provides dynamic ways of constructing theologies of resistance and liberation by engaging with the everyday practices of marginalised communities.
