Documentary as Exorcism - Resisting the Bewitchment of Colonial Christianity

Zusatztext It is refreshing to see a scholar incorporate modes of analysis largely developed in the religious and intellectual discourses of enslaved people. Beckford does so respectfully and creatively…Beyond its intended audience, Documentary as Exorcism contains valuable scholarship for other artists and academics. Informationen zum Autor Robert Beckford is a scholar-activist, multi-award-winning broadcaster and currently the Professor of Climate and Social Justice at the University of Winchester, UK. Vorwort The documentary maker reflects on his art, and how he navigates between theology and visual culture as an academic, activist and practitioner. Zusammenfassung Frames colonial theology in the Caribbean as a form of witchcraft practice that bewitched Africans and later black colonial subjects, and discusses the continued impact of this bewitchment, namely in politics and anti-intellectualism in contemporary Black Pentecostal Church life, especially in the UK. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction1. A New Position in Black Christian Representation: Beyond Confinement, Misrecognition and the Ubiquitous black choir2. Emancipatory Framework: Set On, Cast Out3. Witchcraft4. Exorcism: Jesus the Healer5. Christian Complicity with the Bewitchment of Empire6. Memory Cannibalism as the a Continued Influence of Colonial Christianity 7. Zombie Worship 8. Signs and Wonders: Translating the Emancipatory Framework 9. Documentary Film: Poetic Justice10. Encoding Bewitchment in Documentary11. The Prophetic and the Political Documentary12. Hermeneutic of Suspicion Academic Theological Practice and the Bible DocumentaryConclusion: Towards an Exorcism AestheticBibliographyIndex

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Robert Beckford, Robert (Canterbury Christ Church University Beckford, Beckford Robert
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 16.01.2014
• EAN: 9781847063915
• ISBN: 978-1-84706-391-5
• Pagine: 264
• Categorie: Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Religione: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Cristianesimo; Theologie, Ethnic Studies, RELIGION / Christianity / Pentecostal & Charismatic, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Black & Asian Studies, Pentecostal Churches, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Pentecostal or Charismatic Churches